There is no separation
of us from G*d—
how could that be?
When one purposes to separate
from G*d &
cast him- or herself
into outer darkness
it is that one doing the casting
and the darkness is the
perceived separation from G*d
but the darkness and separation
is only in his or her perception
Separation cannot be
there is only one
:- Doug.
Exactly opposite
Not G*d in that molecule
Nor that molecule is G*d
Rather G*d is that molecule
Exactly more whole
:- Doug.
I do not know whether my meditation is your meditation, my contemplation is your contemplation: it seems to work for me, lift me, inspire me, refresh me, gives me poetry and life.
:- Doug.
Life is one. There is only one life. This is somehow what we try to capture with the word “God,” yet there is more: more within the beyond things we call G*d; more within the beyond-thing we call life; more, beyond more, simply more. Life lives us. We live life. We grab life. Life grasps us. Life is all there is. The sparkly stars, the hopping toads, the sitting rocks, the waving trees, the feeling beings: all of life, and all of living. Life is no thing. Life is not static; life ever moves. Life is in the living. Living is conversation with living.
:- Doug.
What happens
in an exchange of life?
Communication
but nothing communicated
but everything
life expands exponentially
impossibility’s possibility
fingertips on eyelids
hand in hand
mind learns of heart
heart learns of life
life learns of
earth touching bare feet
red of bird and white of snow
touching eye
ideal—real—commerce
of living
carrying us
carrying all
partners
in compassion
:- Doug.
Inspiring,
the higher, the beyond
are profanity
to pedestrian minds
but even their hearts
can sigh
:- Doug.
The opening at the crux of the X, the hourglass, the figure 8, is clogged with grey cloth: our job is to open space in both directions—inward and outward—in us and for others—that life might live!
:- Doug.
The branching branching of the tree
goes up and out and out
reaching reaching for air water and
light, ever more light
without striving without trying
just receiving
thus the tree organizes its living giving
I have heard that bee hives and ant colonies
organize their scouting for food
this self-same way
wasteful O how wastefully
efficient
disorganized organizing!
Life is as it lives
& we are part
essential and small
& we are part
:- Doug.
Do we receive another
or do we project our picture show?
When first we receive
we begin hearing
the other comes to living
we all do
:- Doug.
When we say compete what are we after? We are after new ideas, better products, prices fair to both buyer and seller. Competing is not our value nor our purpose but only a stand-in little word for a larger set of concepts, chief among them being fairness, diversity and creativity.
:- Doug.
In the early 21st century in the West the role of doctors is to be a feeder system for hospitals in treating disease. We could have a health improvement system: doctors as teachers and encouragers of healthy living, and hospitals as teaching centers and safety nets.
:- Doug.
Look at your mistakes
for within the words you mis-read
the things which tripped your tongue
your misadventures
are new creations
new pathways
possible futures
:- Doug.
Dust is holy—Jesus trod
Water is holy—Jesus washed
Food & friends & celebrations are holy
You and I and especially and
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 919
The question is not whether you over here are right and you over there are wrong, but whether we can find a way for us all to be right.
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