Things I have not heard before
There are many things I have not heard of before—including things I read last December.
:- Doug.
Archive for July, 2015
Why do we stand in their way?
These people have present abilities
real potential
desire for great change and good
Why do we stand in their way?
Do we, like they, believe it is not possible?
:- Doug.
We have a duty to our members
We have a duty to our members—they are looking to us to carry out this task of leading them—all of us—to a higher level of service. How are we doing?
:- Doug.
Evil is a freezing
Evil is a freezing of larger capacities—and we do little to thaw ourselves.
:- Doug.
Fresh green all around me
Fresh green all around me
Lush spring greens
Hue after hue
Dancing with breezes
Calling me out to play
:- Doug.
The only way we’re going to do something
The only way we’re going to do something is to do something.
:- Doug.
Take the temperature of the group
Take the temperature of the group
Take the temperature of the whole
Of which this group is part
:- Doug.
Are you more solid than a cloud?
Are you more solid than a cloud? A hundred years from now, a hundred miles?
:- Doug.
bigger than the rain
There is something bigger than the rain, bigger than the board that hits us upside the head.
:- Doug.
A meditational:
A meditational: Let go plans, stop with explanations, less trying to figure out everything. Let it run over and through you. Take the temperature, accept the wind, the sun, the storms, the lightning. What is, what is coming, what is your gift to add?
:- Doug.
The true nature of the emerging
The true nature of the emerging whole
is too ephemeral to be grasped
so play with
:- Doug.
Capacities disentangled
Capacities for creating
Larger than any one’s
Disentangled in conversing
:- Doug.
Inviting flows stutters
Inviting the conversation
Flows from this larger now
Stutters from memorized
:- Doug.
Can you be more real?
Can you be more real
this instant
than the last?
less of substance
more shape-shifting?
more inside of our living
this one unfolding?
:- Doug.
to foster conversation
If you come to foster any conversation
You must not impose your own topic
If you come to foster this one conversation
You must early contribute your subject
It is impossible to foster all meaningful conversations
:- Doug.
when most difficult
Conversations are most valuable when most difficult to grow: facing death, grief, anger, confusion, fear. We can discover ways to overcome the difficulty.
:- Doug.
conversational poverty
The single most important thing to help people move out of conversational poverty is to discover ways to make conversation fruitful.
:- Doug.
even nonsense
Conscious may not mean only the normal flow of thoughts. There may be a larger awareness beyond that to which we can put words. Even beyond larger to a panoply of perspectives: a plenum which includes emptiness and even nonsense.
:- Doug.
