Emergence is the process of…
Emergence is the process of
Finding the life &
Making it stronger
Finding the whole &
Making it wholer
Finding the uniquenesses &
Making them more unique
Together
:- Doug.
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A pattern language is pre-poetry, a listing of qualities felt in something yet latent.
A pattern language is pre-poetry, a listing of qualities felt in something yet latent.
:- Doug.
Life’s purpose—the whole—is served/Though this work be large or small
Life’s purpose—the whole—is served
Though this work be large or small
:- Doug.
…/Destiny free of destination/Beyond dropping coins in your purse/We work to make the world wonderful/….
Having purpose gives direction
Destiny free of destination
Beyond dropping coins in your purse
We work to make the world wonderful
And each moment in it.
:- Doug.
In my heart, goals are too short-sighted. I prefer to raise my eyes to the larger, to purposes. This is where wholeness is, fullness, life.
In my heart, goals are too short-sighted. I prefer to raise my eyes to the larger, to purposes. This is where wholeness is, fullness, life.
:- Doug.
There is a clue to emergence in the organic, the biologic.
There is a clue to emergence in the organic, the biologic.
:- Doug.
Purposes, emergence, and @ChrisCorrigan’s next first step….
Purposes are directly related to emergence. They help engender the emergence. They are related to the inviting living question.
They are also related to Chris Corrigan’s next first step: he has intuited this idea, but not stated it: We cannot know all the steps because we do not know whether we will find rock or water or sand or woods in our way. We can only put one foot in front of the other and head in a direction. Directions are all we have on a round planet: there are no stopping places!
:- Doug.
Sometimes we might use goals as tools, or think they would be useful….
Sometimes we might use goals as tools, or think they would be useful. If that is how we have to think for that time, then so be it. Still, we need to do so within the framework of purposes. Purposes take us high above the fray where we can see the lay of the land, we can see panoramas, we can pick out directions.
:- Doug.
To live a larger life: to see ourselves as part of the larger life, the single life of the world: this is our purpose.
To live a larger life: to see ourselves as part of the larger life, the single life of the world: this is our purpose.
:- Doug.
I don’t like the farming metaphor when you call us a team.
I don’t like the farming metaphor when you call us a team.
:- Doug.
That is the issue, yes? To live a larger life. Goals do put blinders in front….
That is the issue, yes? To live a larger life. Goals do put blinders in front of our eyes which keep us from, and maybe to keep us from, seeing what is all round us.
:- Doug.
Let’s look only a bit further than we can see—but lots wider.
Let’s look only a bit further than we can see—but lots wider.
:- Doug.
Goals and purposes differ from each other *more than* walls from windows…. Goals have three difficulties…
Goals and purposes differ from each other more than walls from windows. Plans and processes differ even more.
Why? Purposes move; goals are fixed. Purposes are clear, lucid, see-through; goals are opaque, with invented pictures of what things can be like.
Goals have three difficulties: 1. The steps from here to there cannot be known at the start; 2. The end position cannot be known in all its effects, positive and negative; 3. The What’s next? question is left dangling. So we are left with a jerky, stop and start motion, and a need for head intervention.
1. Purposes specifically do not know the steps: the process (Do what’s most life-intensifying here, now) takes care of those. Each day, each time. 2. Purposes do not try to delimit any end position: just every step makes the whole ever better. 3. The What’s Next? is already known at every point in time: Intensify living. It is smooth as a pair of dancers, turning, seeing, gracefully back and forth, swaying to the rhythm.
:- Doug.
Our impatience contributes to our desires for goals:…a false speed….
Our impatience contributes to our desires for goals: if we set it, they will come—faster. Yet it is a false speed: we can have our more important desires now—peace, love, life, God.
:- Doug.
When we first set a goal, it is hubris…
When we first set a goal, it is hubris to think we know what the final result will be, how it will effect us and those round us, and where it will lead on. Far better a purpose upon which we keep circling and closing…& improving.
:- Doug.
Goals put blinders—in front of our eyes. We can only see the picture we painted on the blinders.
Goals put blinders—in front of our eyes. We can only see the picture we painted on the blinders.
:- Doug.
The process is step-by-step—free of grand designs, working our ways to weal….
The process is step-by-step—free of grand designs, working our ways to weal, helping each other and self and whole, generously. Process is three-dimensional: involving design, make and live.
:- Doug.
A goal is a ladder: you get to the top and if you want to go someplace else, sometimes you have to come down.
A goal is a ladder: you get to the top and if you want to go someplace else, sometimes you have to come down.
:- Doug.
A step-by-step process—based on a purpose of healing and adding life to the whole, is the exact opposite of a goal.
A step-by-step process—based on a purpose of healing and adding life to the whole, is the exact opposite of a goal.
:- Doug.
