It is not my job to energize you
It is not my job to energize you. It is my job to get out of your way and maybe help you get out of your way. It is my job to let you open your own way.
:- Doug.
Archive for the 'Conversations' Category
Ignite their divinity!
Touch them, ignite their divinity! Find a way. Make some calls. Open some space. See what works. Into this fire!
:- Doug.
conversation as combustion:
If we see G*d as energy at one time and old grey monarch another, what of it? Both are true, it would seem. The difference might be attributed to observer participancy, or to timing, or maybe something else.
Conversation is the combustion of fuel and oxygen, live questions and persons. Heat and light—fire!—is the result: knowing each other and seeing clearer—doing!
:- Doug.
the lens of who & what & where
We project G*d in our daily rounds
Not as we wish nor as we are nor as G*d is
Rather as comes from the lens of who & what & where
:- Doug.
fire projects
The light and heat of fire are one
Neither arises from the other but both together
Combustion is the conversation of tinder and oxygen
Fire projects the first two, consumes the second
The who has a name & person, God & It
:- Doug.
Then all we are is us–together
Maybe there’s no G*d apart from us
No us apart from G*d
Then all we are is us—together
& calling each other by our names
is what we each most want
& all there ever is
& where we both are heading
:- Doug.
only one thing brings forth good
Absolutely essential
for the world’s perfection
only one thing brings forth good
conversing—flowing together
:- Doug.
to hear someone call our name
one does not exist apart from One
Nor one from another
We do not exist apart from G*d
G*d does not exist apart from us
We need each other
We need to meet each other
We need to hear someone call our name
:- Doug.
In the stirring, divinity
Prayer is meeting
In the betweens
Stirring each other
In the stirring, divinity
:- Doug.
G*d meets
G*d is not just in us. Nor is G*d out there or in here. You cannot point and say, Look here!, or Over there! G*d is not just a seed, foreign to the fertile soil. G*d is not just the atmosphere through which we walk, nor the ground of our being upon which we trod, nor the field of influence in which we move: G*d meets. Now. We then are part. If we exist, we are an essential part of meeting. G*d needs meeting as we need meeting. And until we meet all and All, we urge ourselves out ever out and ever gathering, ever meeting.
:- Doug.
Only betweens
This between takes both of us. It does not exist, cannot exist, without both. The seed is each of us. The emerging is real. We create out of nothing. We create us.
There is no God. Here is no human. Only betweens. In between is G*d. In between is this human. Meeting emerges us: flowing. Meeting emerges us humans: flowing.
:- Doug.
More basic than spirit: to meet
For sure our pictures of G*d are our creations. A white haired old man on a throne; a Caucasian Jesus; a fat Buddha. A puppet master.
Beyond pictures? The actions we attribute to divinity, the attributes we attribute to divinity, are our creations.
Beyond this all, to what is? How can we know without using our minds?
That is a live question. We can know with our bodies. Is there another part of us that knows? Our spirit? I think that may be. For herein I know. I have met.
More basic than spirit: to meet. To be a person in the face of person.
That is where our “fear” of G*d resides, our awe: to really meet. To stand naked in soul in the face of this One. And transact what is us.
:- Doug.
the ability to take what is there and birth something new
Emergence is a form of sprouting: there is a seed there. Call it God, G*d, divinity, imagination, creativity, ingenuity. It is the ability to take what is there and birth something new, perhaps even to take what is not there and have it carry us out. It is on your toes without being on tenterhooks. It is your fingertips sensitized and muscles relaxed. Expectant waiting for your chance to sneak into home playing hide and seek: it matters not whether you get caught; either way it is all great fun.
The seed is the fun you expect. It is ability, agility.
It is something we all have: it is built in to reality. We have merely to realize reality. That again is on your toes expecting great fun: curious to find out what happens next.
What a fun way to live! Let us choose this one!
:- Doug.
Imagining, the Holy
Conversing stirs
Imagining,
The Holy
Imagining
Is Emerging
Is Divinity sprouting
Conversing stirs
Imagining,
The Human
More than stirring
Conversing is the essential:
Meeting brings forth
Divinity & Human—This Us
:- Doug.
Because there is beauty in here
There is beauty in the world because there is beauty in here: projected upon the screen by a label maker. There is goodness out there because we judge it so. We call something truth when we tire of looking further. Just because they exist in mind, have they no other existence?
:- Doug.
The reason we cannot conceive of what we can do
The reason we cannot conceive what we can do conversing together is that our picture of ourselves is too small. We don’t think we can, because we’ve never seen anybody else turned loose before.
:- Doug.
They work best who work not on…
They work best who work not on the work & not on themselves but in the third space between to time & space lost.
:- Doug.
