get as many as possible alive
Is this a losing battle? No! We must we must get as many as possible people alive.
:- Doug.
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If it touches you, you are the one.
Don’t hang back. Don’t fear not succeeding: your good head and your good heart increases the chances you will improve things. But also don’t dismiss it as being unimportant compared to earning your paycheck or mowing your lawn: if it touches you, you are the one. If you don’t act, it won’t get done. You’re in charge!
:- Doug.
Conversing, we create our sea by swimming in it.
Conversing, we create our sea by swimming in it.
:- Doug.
What in the world should be better?
What in the world should be better? Fix it. You’re in charge!
:- Doug.
More complex than physics
More complex than physics is biology
More complex than biology is art
More complex than art is conversation
:- Doug.
“The world is an ordering concept
“The world” is an ordering concept: it helps me to organize my thoughts about the all. “The universe” is an ordering concept; so is “The whole” and even “I” and even “God.” Here I organize my thoughts and meanings around my experiences.
My metaphors then are not right or wrong, they are just mine, because my experiences are mine and not yours. The same for yours or that theologian’s, or any other person’s. Still the most particular is the most universal.
:- Doug.
The most effective thing you can do is converse.
The most effective thing you can do is converse.
:- Doug.
Talking–for the first time
My terribly important mission is to get people talking with one another—not again, but for the first time, really talking.
:- Doug.
Balance is glossing over
Balance is an attempt to find a simple glossing over of the many interwoven complexities of life. All voices want to be heard, indeed need to be heard. Heard, not simply listened to.
:- Doug.
G*d is conversation
G*d is conversation. Free G*d. Show up. Be part. This is where you meet The All There Is. To meet is to touch.
:- Doug.
Pouring concrete around God
So many want to pour concrete around God so they can say This is God, even, I speak for God. Free God.
:- Doug.
in reserve, for what?
We have been given a life to live: we are living it as little as we can. We are holding ourselves back, in reserve for what?
:- Doug.
Life is both head and heart
I believe that life is both head and heart, complete only with both.
:- Doug.
You can be the one
People! Wake up! There is good work to be done. You can be the one we have been waiting for! You can be the one you have been waiting for!
:- Doug.
Through slats:
Through slats: We see as through slats, through an obstructed or partial view. When we move, we see something different—but still not whole. One blind man thought the elephant like a hose; another like a tree: all see what they see, all see incompletely. All views are lacking. Many are our own thoughts writ large—and these might be larger than some views, smaller than others. Through slats we see the All There Is. We are part of this, so how could we see it all? Be still in this presence. Know. Say a whole lot less.
:- Doug.
People! Give head and heart!
People! Give head and heart (and see how necessary it is to give head and heart) to the world we are part of together. Jump in—the water’s yours and mine! I have noticed that the least effort often gives us the least results. Or the least favorable results. Throw the trash at the wastebasket…and miss. Go over and pick it up and drop it in. It would have been less effort to go over and drop it in to begin with. It is not just laziness, just taking the easy way. If we want to get something made better in this world, it is our destiny and duty to make the effort ourselves. Not complain to the government or some official. We are official—official people, official agents, official causes of something better.
It is a necessity. Not only do governments and officials and companies have less money these days, they always have their hearts and heads elsewhere. If we are the ones to see the need and opportunity, we are the ones to act.
More than this: we have hearts and heads that never ever will exist again in space-time. The humanity we bring, the heights we can take us all, the preparations we can make for our grandchildren: these will all be lost to the generations unless we act. And before we act, we must decide: are we just dead weight, or all in?
:- Doug.
The aroma of what you’re cooking
The aroma of what you’re cooking can waft and call many to your kitchen. You can feed people into the next century. Your voice can be heard beyond hailing distance…and time. You can attain the flower of expressing your most beautiful humanity.
:- Doug.
