Archive for January, 2015

The group flow state

The group flow state is an experience everyone has. That being so, then am I working toward eliciting that?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on January 22nd, 2015 | No Comments »

Fear holds us back from all change

It is fear that holds us back from all change. From one another. The strongest antidote, the only antidote, is love. Love is what we most fear.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on January 22nd, 2015 | No Comments »

Perhaps capitalism needs its own medicine

Perhaps capitalism is the greatest engine of change in this world. Perhaps it too needs its own medicine: change.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on January 22nd, 2015 | No Comments »

Welcome home

Welcome home, my good friend
People recognize home
Especially
When they haven’t been there for a long time

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on January 22nd, 2015 | No Comments »

Don’t even get out of the way

Don’t predict the future
Don’t even get out of the way
Get in the way

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on January 22nd, 2015 | No Comments »

Despite its great show of force

Despite its great show of force, the world does not like to be forced. It wants to be welcomed to be itself: at home.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on January 22nd, 2015 | No Comments »

The gestures we need

Suspending, in-directing, releasing even the new, opening: these are the gestures we need, and need to leave. Leave because even they start from separation.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on January 22nd, 2015 | No Comments »

When you’ve said it all

When you’ve said it all, it’s time to go.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on January 22nd, 2015 | No Comments »

Stop before you have said

Stop before you have said

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on January 22nd, 2015 | No Comments »

Footprints in the Windsm # 1481–If you suspend your opinions

Footprints in the Windsm # 1481

If you suspend your opinions just for this conversation, you will not die.


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Published in: FootprintsintheWind/sm | on January 21st, 2015 | No Comments »

This.

This. This is my work. This reading. This hearing larger colors, wider. This writing. This poetry. This conversing.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on January 21st, 2015 | No Comments »

Can I accept compassion?

Can I accept compassion?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on January 21st, 2015 | No Comments »

I am fragile

I am fragile. Yay!

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on January 21st, 2015 | No Comments »

We are not just a different self

We are not just a different self with differing people or at other times. We grow. From each touch of others. Touch and grow.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on January 21st, 2015 | No Comments »

Interplaited

Get the field more in touch with itself. The more we converse, the bigger our world, the interplaited we all are. Hate, tears, laughter, and understanding come, perhaps in that order.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on January 21st, 2015 | No Comments »

Ambiguity is my friend

Ambiguity is my friend.

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on January 21st, 2015 | No Comments »

About creativity and energy

Creativity
Energy
Discovery
Flow
Love
Life
Alike

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on January 21st, 2015 | No Comments »

Be door

Be door
beyond doer
before

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on January 21st, 2015 | No Comments »

There is a world

There is a world
we might
bring into existence

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on January 21st, 2015 | No Comments »

a higher temperature?

Did you mean to gain a better life
or one at a higher temperature?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on January 21st, 2015 | No Comments »

Is this empathy?

Is reflecting together empathy, compassion?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on January 20th, 2015 | No Comments »

Focused attention

Focused attention
open awareness
choose

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on January 20th, 2015 | No Comments »

Positively appeared?

Walt says it is enough
We have positively appeared
But you ask, Have we yet?

:- Doug.

Published in: Conversations | on January 20th, 2015 | No Comments »
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