Service: love. Unauthorized, for the king of ego will not allow. But the king of ego is mumbling and G*d pays no attention to the mumbles. Immediate: nothing in between. In the between: right here.
Singing: not understood by logic. Beyond rational. Joy! Fire! Shouting! Dancing!
Uncategorizable: no slots; making it out of new, making it all new.
:- Doug.
Not everyone will grasp what this is about: some have their heads turned a different direction, by different things. All I hope are able, but we choose different things, we allow ourselves to be pulled by different things. That is good when it is a matter of different ways of serving, but when it is the ego we are serving is when our eyes close. You cannot serve both G*d and ego.
G*d may then be called the egoless. Not solely that, but that is of G*d’s essence.
:- Doug.
The Power Point
The expert from afar
Promise what they will not deliver
They deceive us
For it is only we ourselves
Who must birth
:- Doug.
Once spoken a metaphor starts to harden. Someday we will strike our heads against it from the inside—which will crack? Even this metaphor, how do we escape?
:- Doug.
Spirit is localized everywhere. G*d is one spirit, one heart—many minds, many hands.
:- Doug.
Come watch
our meetings say
What a shame!—
We could have been players
:- Doug.
Hubris it is to think
We can change the course of the world
Hubris also it is to think
We can have no effect
Get busy, O little ones
:- Doug.
The only way we can get “there” is to talk. We have a leakage of courage, a timidity of heart, a shrinking from imagining—all of which are met by invitation. Talk first, hear second, meet. There is no more, no other way.
:- Doug.
We are hope; accomplishment is not our goal nor our purpose.
:- Doug.
Zorba said to Boss, Trouble? Life is trouble. Only when you die is no trouble. You need to make trouble: that’s how you know you’re living.
That speaks to me. I need to get out there and make more trouble.
:- Doug.
This is the work too:
Meeting others where they are
No need to travel
No need to change the world
Meeting is turning
:- Doug.
There is more
to the world
than numbers Dollars
ideas generated
I only say because
we seldom give it space
there is an arising
there is in us
something of one
if we allow and attend
having come together
an emerging from us
not from any one of us
not that we cobbled up
a true arising as from
the midst
where there is more
:- Doug.
Do we really think that an hour of slides will contribute greatly to solving all our issues and opportunities, growing as they have been, for decades? Will 3 days of intense work together help more? The decision to give little time and attention may stem from mentally assigning this we face to nameless faceless others.
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 945
The dancer is happy
The dancer is groaning
Whichever is true
Unlike one taking charge
Unlike most of us numb
Most of the time
The dancer is alive.
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Cellophane
the workings of
gluons and quarks and
the tax code
to those of us who
do not study those
things every day
So the workings of minds
when a whole day attending
upon one thing
giving it
a night to percolate
& reweave
—we see right through
what is doing the work
giving us fresh
:- Doug.
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