In #openspace we are revealing passion, taking responsibility.
In open space we are revealing passion, taking responsibility.
:- Doug.
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We do not want access to health care: we want health.
We do not want access to health care: we want health.
:- Doug.
I can’t tell you what I do—because I don’t do it. I can tell you about people leaning in….
I can’t tell you what I do—because I don’t do it. I can tell you about people leaning in, people making plans to do. I can tell you about people reflecting…deeply…. I can tell you about laughter and banter and tears and silence. I can tell you about people rushing to capture it all on flip charts as it spills out of people. I can tell you about people saying “I’ll commit to doing X.” I can tell you about the world turning to rights just a notch in an afternoon.
:- Doug.
Are we truly outside of each other? / What if we admitted to some overlap? / Some enfolding….
Are we truly outside of each other?
What if we admitted to some overlap?
Some enfolding within each other?
Just a little?
How would we be enfolded?
How are we enfolded?
How again?
Are there other dimensions of enfolding?
:- Doug.
….Our whole economy is based upon insecurity—
Pay me, pay me: who will pay me to do this work? Our whole economy is based upon insecurity—the insecurity of rugged individualism that might not be rugged enough, without pay, to support us, to provide food, clothing, shelter, transportation and conversation to us. Could we conceive among us a more open passage of good and help?
:- Doug.
Could we share the care of our elderly parents?
Could we share the care of our elderly parents?
:- Doug.
….what is G*d’s work? Does G*d have to work? Doing what?….
“God’s work in one’s life” is a phrase we see among religious writers—what is G*d’s work? Does G*d have to work? Doing what? How big is G*d and why do we have a role in G*d’s work? Are we somehow essential? Are we part of a larger whole? Are we to make the whole larger? A larger working whole?
:- Doug.
Our inner being is our inner being, the being of the several.
Our inner being is our inner being, the being of the several.
:- Doug.
Be ourselves. Every solitary person is already taken.
Be ourselves. Every solitary person is already taken.
:- Doug.
The baby coos and gurgles / We smile / ….
The baby coos and gurgles
We smile
The old man coos and gurgles
We cringe
For one we have been there
And know what joys lie ahead
For the other we fear we may know
Something else that is ahead
Yet we cannot
Can we be joy just here?
:- Doug.
….live and pay no attention to our regrets: live the most we can, each now.
If we die and there is no more, then our regrets die with us. If we die to a heaven or a hell, then our regrets are forgiven in heaven or expanded in hell. If love is the most basic dimension of the all there is, then there are no regrets and therefore no hell. So we should live and pay no attention to our regrets: live the most we can, each now.
:- Doug.
Sometimes we get in a muddle because we cannot see how it all fits together and there is so much….
Sometimes we get in a muddle because we cannot see how it all fits together and there is so much to fit, so many pieces that do not seem to fit, that we are willing to throw up our hands. Yet if we see all as a process of unfolding and refolding, embracing and re-embracing, then it is friendly. We see that we can unfold something in the world and test to see how it affects the other foldings, unfoldings and embracings. Life is living and comfortable.
:- Doug.
Infinitely intimate
Infinitely intimate
The intimate, interior and small
Is infinite
Our universe is infinitely small
As it is infinitely large
Infinite intimacy
I both seek and flee
Infinite creatures are we all
With infinite dimensions
Infinite enfoldings and unfoldings
So how could we ever know each other fully?
We can know each other well
Purposely well
:- Doug.
A beginning, a muddle, and a bringing forth….
A beginning, a muddle, and a bringing forth can be clearly seen in an implicate order—leading to a coming back, a muddle, and a dissolving.
:- Doug.
the holomovement takes the pressure off “me” to perform or accomplish….
Seeing the holomovement takes the pressure off “me” to perform or accomplish, allows me to work without pressure. The holomovement will bring up other waves at other moments. I can accept who I am as part of all this, I can point it out to others in various ways but not be attached to whether or not they get it or see it or hear it. I can accept others and their ideas as part of the holomovement, necessary peaks and valleys, as I am, and then let it all go into its own dimension, folding and enfolding endlessly. Next I might be a star or a black hole. Or a black whole!
:- Doug.
re-minding and re-hearting ourselves….
What we are re-minding and re-hearting ourselves of is our very substance as holomovement. When we re-mind ourselves of ourselves, we are re-minding and re-hearting and re-hearing the thrum of communality. We are, we are: holomovement.
:- Doug.
a collective is not really reality:….
Seeing a collective is not really reality: we are not a collection of particles, defining what we are by our separation, but we are risings up of the holomovement in a locality, waves to subside into the sea again in a moment.
:- Doug.
“Let us remind us of ourselves” juxtaposed to Bohm ….
“Let us remind us of ourselves” I see juxtaposed to Bohm and see this: we are multi-dimensioned beings; what we call the heart is really one of our dimensions. So there is much here in us to see and hear. Reminding us of ourselves is bringing again into our minds and hearts our multiple dimensions, seeing larger ourselves as individuals and as a whole.
:- Doug.
….Our deeper, larger self is the multidimensional holomovement.
We will probably never be able to see the whole holomovement, but what it suggests to me to explore is to bring more of the holomovement—multidimensionally—into the unfolding (Bohm) and the intensifying (Alexander) and the meeting of our deeper larger self (Buber). Our deeper, larger self is the multidimensional holomovement.
:- Doug.
