War is mass killing.
War is mass killing.
:- Doug.
Let us transcend ourselves.
:- Doug.
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Co-emerging with us
If we look at the ultimate wholeness of reality, then it is clear that this wholeness co-emerges with us. If we use the word God to refer to this ultimate reality, we see that God is co-emergent with us. We are integral to God. We know God intimately.
:- Doug.
Not arising from, nor separate from.
God is all this. Not arising from, nor separate from. God is. We are.
:- Doug.
Meaning in nursing homes?
What is the meaning of the months and years some people spend in stupor in nursing homes? To say it is a mystery, that it is beyond our ken and in God’s hands, is to abdicate our responsibility. We make the meaning.
:- Doug.
Incomplete wholeness
God is incomplete wholeness, never to be complete, always responding, always loving, always creating more living.
:- Doug.
I have much to give….
I have much to give. I have conversation and the growing of it. This is holy work since it expands life, it makes life more whole, it enlivens life.
:- Doug.
When we take we make ourselves small….
Life is about giving. When we take we make ourselves small. When we grasp to ourselves, we are small. When we enter others’ lives we become large.
:- Doug.
God is that beyond which there is nothing more embracing.
God is that beyond which there is nothing more embracing.
:- Doug.
God is the world….
God is the world, and God loves the world, and God is the loving movement together of all there is and the loving moving out to make the embrace infinitely big.
:- Doug.
Listening to another is violence
Listening is something we do to another. As such it partakes of a worldview that the other is other—different, apart, It (Buber). Listening stops short of what we need; indeed its nature holds a touch of violence. Hearing is where we need to work towards. Here we see the other as part of the same cloth, as Thou, we take him or her into us. We are moving to realizing that all life is one life.
:- Doug.
We cannot be separated from divinity any more than divinity can be separated from us.
We cannot be separated from divinity any more than divinity can be separated from us.
:- Doug.
Just say what’s important now
I do not need to say it all. Just what is important now. If people do not want to hear that, maybe next time.
:- Doug.
Law practice and community practice
My work is conversation. I have a law practice. I encourage people to converse about end of life things. I have a community practice. I encourage people to converse a new world into existence.
:- Doug.
There are many ways to lay down your life for your friends & many friends.
There are many ways to lay down your life for your friends & many friends.
:- Doug.
Worship may be to please a deity, but I seek to be with.
Worship may be to please a deity, but I seek to be with.
:- Doug.
We think we matter and that establishes it. I think I matter, therefore I do.
We think we matter and that establishes it. I think I matter, therefore I do.
:- Doug.
