Perhaps my antipathy toward goal-setting runs deeper. Goal-setting is ego-driven, seeing all others as Its. It avoids profound in-taking, soul, and hearing.
:- Doug.
The gaps in our speech—even aphasias—can be invitations to come rest in silence…. What if precisely then we stopped to listen? Both of us? There is a rhythm to weather, the low pressure drawing wind out of the high pressure, the lightning and the sun alternating. Our words, our hearing, too. Come enter the world whole.
:- Doug.
Plot, story, tension
Compassion, vulnerability, hate
Opening, celebrating, conflict
Greening opens
Unexpected expected
:- Doug.
Materialism is dead-making. Why else would we condition compassion for the foreigner in our midst on something like a line in the sand or an uttered set of words? Why else condition compassion for our elders on budget concerns?
:- Doug.
Hear—and say—everything
of profound importance
then we are wholly human
:- Doug.
Hearing, vulnerability, empathy are stations on the road to compassion. Beware, you who would retain your ego safe from living!
:- Doug.
In drama is movement
a car chase horizontal
what matters goes vertical
:- Doug.
The all but seen
Subtle is the world
Of persons
A rainbow missed
Until we glance and stop
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 1476
A new picture this morning about the dying process: not so much downhill as uphill: the road grows steeper as we go, and requires more energy, more traction, and we cannot.
This seems more hopeful for some reason, more gentle, and true to real life: we grow weary, become winded, fall often.
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Thinking through
—through one another
—through the gaps among us
—through the aggregate of us
Speaking our holy
through
the all
of us
:- Doug.
Woundedness, vulnerability, sharing our weaknesses: let us explore. There is a power here. There is a courage that is more difficult than simply facing fear. There is a farther courage in showing our weakness, our wounds. Action in the face of fear is surpassed by standing forth in our humanity.
:- Doug.
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