Just be. The worry will resolve.
You have a worry? Just be. Continue to be. The worry will resolve, and you can be. Be full.
:- Doug.
Archive for the 'Conversations' Category
I found myself asking Abraham’s question
I found myself asking Abraham’s question: Who are you? The response: I am: therefore be. So you be too. How shall I respond? I am. I shall be as much as I can. I shall invite others to be. Is there more? This is enough. Enough to fill a lifetime.
:- Doug.
Standing back from our lives
We need to stand back from our lives. It is from here we can see wisely. This standing back causes us to see from the point of view of another person and more other persons. The more persons’ views the more whole our picture.
:- Doug.
All worthy movement is confluence
Every thing we know touches some thing else. All move. Maybe all movement is together; all lasting and worthy movement is confluence.
:- Doug.
Conversation produces:/…
Conversation produces:
Heat Light Movement
Reaching beyond our space-time
New entities (us and more us)
New possibilities
:- Doug.
Not just transform, but produces
Conversation does more than add to or transform people: it produces. It produces actions and something more.
What does it produce? People.
:- Doug.
makes us a village
It does not take a village to make a conversation, conversation makes a village.
Conversation makes us a village.
:- Doug.
leave this little gift on the floor: what fun is that?
This little gift is very disorganizing. It disorients each one who takes hold of it: you cannot remain the same. You are changed. It is a risk, a big risk. Your heart might be torn, your mind shredded. But it is OK: it will all be put together in a new way. At first it might look Picasso-esque, things all out of place, but that is only because you had an inflexible picture of how everything should work. The world is bigger than any of us! So enjoy! What is this little gift? Conversation: letting someone in.
Conversation is giving: giving our selves in the act of speaking ourselves forward; giving our selves in the act of taking another into us, making ourselves one with someone else’s ways and thoughts and histories.
Conversation is a gift to those who hear, and to those who speak. Both get to hear the speaker. Both get to ponder. Both get to engage. Both get to be part of the turning: turning is over and round. Conversation starts things in motion, motion that can reach beyond our space, beyond our time.
What can we do? We don’t know till we converse! Conversing gets things started. We talk our ideas through so we can decide to move. We move singly or together: conversing started the action.
Conversing is the gift I bring. I am lightened by the idea of leaving little packages with bows all round, one here, some few there, a winding trail of lively light!
I bring this little gift: but you have to unwrap it; you have to play with this new toy to get what it has to give. You can leave it on the floor, but what fun is that?
:- Doug.
The most disorganizing thing
I bring the gift of conversation, free and open: it is the most disorganizing thing I know.
:- Doug.
a gift to receive?& a gift to give/…
Conversation is a gift to receive
& a gift to give
A turning over
A turning round
From all directions
To all directions
A gift
:- Doug.
What do you want people to know about what you did?
After you’re gone, what do you want people to know about you and what you did?
:- Doug.
Voice of the wide seeing eye
How can you be for the world the voice of the wide seeing eye?
:- Doug.
God responds: God changes
To love is to respond to the beloved; since people are always changing, for God to love means God must constantly respond and therefore continually change.
:- Doug.
The larger is already present
The larger is already present. We have a choice to open ourselves to it.
:- Doug.
As if we were
When we read a history of times we lived through, we see its dangling threads—as if there were one thread! As if we were of one mind making our way with the end in that mind. And yet the as if is true in these stated ways; all but the notion of having one destination in mind at beginning.
:- Doug.
All people are better people.
All people are better people. Develop better people. Skills come among.
:- Doug.
The letters we write
We work to earn the bread for our table. We work some more and put the excess in savings. That savings is stored energy, the energy of our work and our hearts. The lands we buy, the lasting things we acquire, these too are stored energy. But think of this: the letters we write, the journals we record, these too are stored energy. The prayers we say, the thoughts we send to friends in hospital, these are releasing some of our energy. The play time with our grandchildren, the story times we share with them, these too are releasing our life energy.
:- Doug.
Your essence you store in money, things and soul
As a counselor at law, my job is to help you figure out, think through, what you want to do with your essence that you store in money and things and mostly your soul: how can you find that and make it effective in the world?
:- Doug.
The role of people who do not want to help
What is the role of the people who do not want to help each other, who do not want to make things better? Their job perhaps is spreading and using. Those are two different things, but closely related. It takes more people to do these two things than it does to create and to bring people together.
:- Doug.
What of information wants to be free?
It is said that “information wants to be free.” But, what of information wants to be free? The saying may in fact be another way to say, We want to help, to communicate, to commune.
:- Doug.
