You need to engage each other—it’s the only way for love.
You need to engage each other—it’s the only way for love.
:- Doug.
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People! Find together ways to intensify living!
People! Find together ways to intensify living!
:- Doug.
Another problem with goals is that you become attached to the outcomes. Then the goaler becomes the goalee.
Another problem with goals is that you become attached to the outcomes. Then the goaler becomes the goalee.
:- Doug.
In groups, is transformation the same as or related to emergence? Are they both related to flow?….
In groups, is transformation the same as or related to emergence? Are they both related to flow?
Transform: a qualitative change; changing form or shape or appearance.
Emerge: come out into view; to occur as the result of something; mature; come into existence.
Flow: move freely; streaming; continuous progression; full immersion in the work, energized, involved, and in the process; undistracted.
Something is added by seeing persons as in and among the centers, but not being the whole of the centers: persons come into existence as they bring the centers into existence. They are transformed from bodies to hearts, from wood and smoke and coal to jewels and oil. Flow is going on all the time and contributing to emergence (both revelation and coming into existence) and to transforming (persons are mesmerized with the centers and the other persons, they expand and strengthen the centers).
:- Doug.
My meditation-contemplation/helps the world:/by just this much/….
My meditation-contemplation
helps the world:
by just this much
things have gotten
stiller, deeper
So yours
:- Doug.
There is something going on and we are part of the flow and white water….
There is something going on and we are part of the flow and white water. We people are more like the bubbles and the molecules of water than the action taking place.
:- Doug.
War is affront to God/Who gives us brightness & youth
War is affront to God
Who gives us brightness & youth
Strength & future
Yet we sacrifice them all
To our own pride, greed & lust
:- Doug.
The most life-enhancing thing in the world is conversation that matters.
The most life-enhancing thing in the world is conversation that matters.
:- Doug.
It does not matter what I do in any moment, in the sense of a grand plan. Still, it matters tremendously what I do….
It does not matter what I do in any moment, in the sense that I have some grand plan. For a different reason, it matters tremendously what I do in any moment, for I can choose life or not, I can choose to intensify life—all life—in each instant. So I choose the wonderful. And know that if that is a large choice or a small one, it makes the whole better: just right, getting better.
That seems incredible, but it is true. So I can relax. This is life, and it is emerging just fine, thank you, and I am using my best and strongest efforts to make it more intense. Even this writing. And your reading. And what you do to respond.
:- Doug.
Goal-setting generally pays no attention to wholeness:….
Goal-setting generally pays no attention to wholeness: just get me to point B. It could attend the whole, but if it does it loses focus, which is essential to it. The two, goal-setting and wholeness, are incompatible.
:- Doug.
Goals get in the way of life: life is what we’re after. We must be wary of….
Goals get in the way of life: life is what we’re after. We must be wary of goals—their intoxication and subterfuge can try us. But let us give them their due—exposure!—and be off to encounter life.
:- Doug.
Today in meditation/contemplation I attended to my heartbeat, deep.
Today in meditation/contemplation I attended to my heartbeat, deep.
:- Doug.
Sneaky for #openspace: Let’s push the tables back and bring our chairs closer together. Let’s get up ourselves and move….
Let’s push the tables back and bring our chairs closer together. Let’s get up ourselves and move to another conversation, in the middle of a meeting. Let’s insert the snippable genes into our contexts in the larger life of the world, and see how they might grow.
:- Doug.
Education is bad; training is worse. Both say one sort of person is better than another. Neither believes that learning is possible without them; neither remembers…
Both are based on intellectual inequality: the poor of mind or pocket, the younger cannot possibly have sufficient intelligence. We will give it to them. We will develop it in them. We know how; they cannot. Training is based upon these precepts sometimes explicitly; education is more genteel and does not like to admit common heritage. Education is bad; training is worse. Both say one sort of person is better than another. Neither believes that learning is possible without them; neither remembers that learning is how they got knowledge.
:- Doug.
I sing my songs in poetry/The tune is in your heart/And comes from there to me inspire
I sing my songs in poetry
The tune is in your heart
And comes from there to me inspire
:- Doug.
The only language big enough/To hold emergence in its palm/Is poetry
The only language big enough
To hold emergence in its palm
Is poetry
:- Doug.
All together the view of emergence is/Evocative/It pulls us out/….
All together the view of emergence is
Evocative
It pulls us out
Suggests larger worlds
Because it is of the whole
& the whole contains all mystery
& goes forth creating
& if we go along we might see
:- Doug.
There are three parents/Of whatever emerges—/
There are three parents
Of whatever emerges—
Those who design
Those who build
Those who will live there
Each is unique
Together they see macroscopically
:- Doug.
We start from whole and move toward wholer by differentiating.
We start from whole and move toward wholer by differentiating.
:- Doug.
