The undefended heart
The undefended heart
the first step
doors of perception
a person
wildness
and thought
out there
far away
into the heart of the world
consciously receive light
eyes of a child
:- Doug.
Archive for September 21st, 2016
Footprints in the Windsm # 1632–What kind of many lifetimes project?
Footprints in the Windsm # 1632
What kind of a project might we attempt which would take many lifetimes? In the middle ages, they constructed cathedrals. In every age, people plant trees. One is an easy one day task that nature takes over; the other requires concerted efforts by many people over generations. Both require vision, trust, generosity. Maybe not much else. But these in large measures. Trust in generations before and after our own: that they will see the vision, and carry it out. Generosity to create a vision that will be a gift to the later generations. A vision that will engage and be engaged by several generations. How big can we be?
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Less than that–and more
It’s not a question of what you are meant to do in this lifetime, rather what you are meant to do in this lifetime next. Next: not a whole lifetime: less than that—and more.
:- Doug.
The merely human
To see differently
To see more
Is destructive
Of the small, the crusty,
The merely human
:- Doug.
Rethink the world
To embrace one’s vision—be it feelings, thoughts, spiritual insights, or all these—is to rethink the world. To ask others—the world—to do so is to raise terrors of an existential order. Can we thus diversify and enrich humanity?
:- Doug.
