We do not need to share/a single view
We do not need to share
a single view
we already share
a single world
diverse and multiplex
:- Doug.
Archive for August, 2014
The rate of awareness
At the rate of awareness
The forests of hate
Are turning into
Forests of love
:- Doug.
May I be frank with you?
To invite deeper conversation: May I be frank with you? Other good words: open, real, plain, say the truth, tell what’s real for me.
:- Doug.
T5
T1 = Thinking (like a horse or a carpenter: first this then now that)
T2 = Thinking about thinking (like a logician, philosopher, or a school teacher: reflection; what are you thinking about in what order? Are you aware of your thinking? If you change your thinking, what then?)
T3 = Thinking together (like a task group: Hearing, silence, assimilation, emergence, subdividing)
T4 = Thinking about thinking together (like Open Space Technology folks around a Stammtisch table: How are we relating? Could we think about something different? Could we think about the same thing differently? Do we need words? Do we need silence—together? Who else could we invite? …)
T5 = ? Wholeness, all for/in one one for/in all? (What could this look like? What can we invent?)
The movement seems to be from:
Individual → Larger and larger whole
Concrete → Ephemeral, symbolic
Things → Movement
:- Doug.
We caught ourselves
We held up a reflecting glass
And caught ourselves thinking
Next can we hold up a larger glass
To become conscious of
We in action?
:- Doug.
Passing
Passing on
Passing over
Or simply passing
Namby-pamby our euphemisms
We can’t say it
Because it would reveal
That we missed the mark
That we did nothing with this life
Least of all lived it
In our life we were only
Passing through
:- Doug.
The third step
The first step, out of the cave, was to think
The second step, out of the sweat shops, was to reflect—to think about our thinking
The third step, out of ego, will be to see the we
:- Doug.
empty even
To invite deeper conversation: Be open, empty even: receptive, a vacuum drawing to you.
:- Doug.
The only reason we teach
The only reason we
teach, lead, write, read, converse, or prophesy
is we have faith in human possibility
and the possibility of
setting a spark
:- Doug.
find their creativity
Ask Mom or Dad to make a painting, poem, sculpture; find their creativity.
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 1442–This is our spiritual ability
Footprints in the Windsm # 1442
You and I and each human
—We—are the wind between
The wind from somewhere to who knows
We are not a stopping place
We are soft and
Our spiritual ability
Is to rot
Please pass it on.
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Song surreptitiously
To invite deeper conversation: Share a song surreptitiously: what were the words to X?
:- Doug.
Deeper conversation:
To invite deeper conversation: share a reflective song, for example, What a Wonderful World.
:- Doug.
Gathering a family
Gathering a family heart, mind, and can-do
around the person most in need of our loving
:- Doug.
The world can make its way to good
The world can make its way to good
When we can find our way to dialogue
:- Doug.
