Full blooming
Full blooming of human calls up the glow of the garden—what makes gardens glow but flowering?
:- Doug.
Archive for August, 2025
Rise above the labyrinth
Rise above the labyrinth
The way in is the way out
& the way above
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 2470–The need for strangers
Footprints in the Windsm # 2470
It is more than Rilke’s becoming a world in response to another. It is true as he says we probably cannot merge (I take it, in the sense of disappearing) into our other—we can only be ourself. Yet I think that we need that fully human self to enter into this together state with our other. We are never finished meeting. We are never finished growing. So we need to ever uncover and affirm that we are and need to be strangers.
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not what is
We are here seeking not what is, not what was, not what might be, but what can be. I don’t know if we can tell if we have found it.
:- Doug.
Bring about the day
We may bring about the day when we two persons become, for an instant, or an hour, one person in some barely observed sense.
:- Doug.
same air
Peels of the same onion, coming back together; breathing from the same supply of air; living in light from the same sun; feet gravitating to the same earth; father, mother staring into the eyes of their infant child—we are these things, now we can recognize it, bring it to our consciousness.
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 2469–more human
Footprints in the Windsm # 2469
There is, between us, some possibility of a state more human than we might attain separately.
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occupying the same
Imagine if we flowed to one another, and stopped, both occupying the same psychic space. We already do.
:- Doug.
prove warmth
It may be some day soon researchers will “prove” to scholars the existence and outlines of realities like warmth and genuineness. Yet we two can go searching for them now, and record our evidence. Farther, we can go, and do, and ought.
:- Doug.
Not privilege of age
This state is not the privilege of age alone, more of experience. Look to Mary, to what it takes in pondering in your heart.
:- Doug.
Afraid and minuscule of
He is afraid any other person will get any skill, thing, power, or wealth without his permission. He is shortsighted, and minuscule of heart.
:- Doug.
gathering together arrival
This is the culmination, the gathering together arrival point, where we set it all afire.
:- Doug.
Ways to be false
If the Being-Fact/Values arrive for us at the transcend-point, how is it that people vote against their self-interest? Is it that they have been sold false-gold, false-B-Values? There are many ways to be false.
:- Doug.
Conversational mysticism?
Might we so fuse with one another that we call it conversational mysticism?
:- Doug.
For the rest of us
Self-actualizing people have gotten there, and still are motivated. In this they point out further for the rest of us.
:- Doug.
