Than faith deeper
Than faith
there is
deeper something
:- Doug.
Let us detect the fluent in which we swim.
:- Doug.
Archive for February, 2018
Learn to attend?
The holy, the wind, the spirit is more subtly flooding, yet how do we teach these to attend? How do we ourselves learn to attend?
:- Doug.
We are substantial
Just looked up the root of substantial and I like it: being, essence, material, reality, stand firm, be present. I am a substantial person. We each and all are substantial persons.
All those years I spent chasing becoming a substantial person in some monetary sense, and all along I was potentially a substantial person in the real sense.
:- Doug.
Contract with grandchildren?
What is the contract you are entering (your willingness has no role) with the grandchildren? I will help you not at all—you have no part of me? I will help you see surfaces? I will help you hear subtlety? We will help one another live, relating?
:- Doug.
than the ear pulling
than the ear pulling in nuances
and the eye pulling in surfaces
what is more subtly fluxing?
:- Doug.
Boundaries in our thinking
Categories call forth
boundaries in our
thinking and we
stop can we
open the circle?
:- Doug.
Change is found
Matter and spirit say some
Matter and energy say “scientists”
Spirit is wind, moving
Moving is central, change
Is found here: living
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 1756–Less and more mist-ified
Footprints in the Windsm # 1756
As we become elders, we become less and less, more and more. Less physical, more real, expanding, more diffuse with each breath, a morning mist blending into the sunlight, floating on the breeze. Often mist-ified, sometimes mist-ical.
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Change our hearts?
What is the small disturbance that can work on feedback loops to change our hearts?
:- Doug.
When spouses argue
That our situation seems overwhelming and impossible tells us that our problems are interlocked. This is good news. For the corollaries are first that small disturbances can bring about breakthroughs, and second that a complex answer best matches a complex world. We need all of us especially however different, and all of our ideas. Pulling together.
This has practical application, especially when spouses argue.
:- Doug.
Kill the woman
We can kill the woman with whom we disagree. We can lock out of the house our 4 year old for disobeying. We can ethnically cleanse our country. It is possible for something to be logical without making sense.
:- Doug.
A civilized nation
In this century the United States has an opportunity to finally become a civilized nation. So far, the chances look slim.
:- Doug.
“You’re too young”
The sound of a record skipping; “Call for Phillip ____;” why we listen for a tone before dialing; did you ever stop yourself and say silently, “You’re too young”? This is an example of knowing how you and others know: epistemic wisdom.
:- Doug.
Running into the fire
Running into the fire is really the only way, because all systems are afire. It might be rust, it might be compost, it might be flame. All involve oxidation. Here oxygen is drawn in and released, and we can breathe again.
:- Doug.
Relationships and patterns
It is wholes first, parts second, and just what is a part? Or a whole for that matter? Perhaps there is only one whole. It is about relationships and patterns.
:- Doug.
With heart and receiving
Listening is done with ears and attending
Hearing is with heart and receiving
:- Doug.
God as pattern
God can be seen as pattern—and to me this is larger. Flow and eddy of the grand stream, rather than the great conductor of “Fantasia.”
:- Doug.
