Causes everything else
Everything causes everything else. Or at least everything else it touches. Or everything it relates to, keeping in mind everything relates with more than the ear hears or the imagination dreams.
:- Doug.
Archive for the 'Conversations' Category
A friendly window
A friendly window
giving soft light
a quiet spot
near the flow of people walking
two or three good souls
leaning in
inviting conversation
:- Doug.
Tranquility openly
Does it generate tranquility in me? If not, reject it. Don’t sell the litmus test: just openly use it.
:- Doug.
Between is a cradle
In principle, a conversation is the sanctification and illumination of a life. Between is a cradle, a gathering together of your thousand joys and sorrows, laughs and sobs, a receiving place for your lives, a fount of your imaginings and things you could never have imagined apart, the coming together, what your spirits might be.
:- Doug.
Leans us to the good
It is more important to get the individual conversations rich and beautiful and full, than it is to have a coherent “plan.” Just make each conversing beautiful, fulfilling, in its own place-time, in its light and in its quietness. This seems very much aligned with the Eastern notion of being fully in the place where you may be found. This is good, this leans us to the good, because it is about living of life, not forcing some program upon it.
:- Doug.
Quiet place, soft light
We invite conversing by inventing, and inviting to, a quiet place with soft light. The light attracts us.
:- Doug.
Get to the is
The problem is the should. I want to get to the is. If it is not what you want, then figure out how to get from here to there. Even that is missing some of the point: it is re-introducing the should in the form of want. Does the is preclude choice? Are we simply to take what happens? I want to say we can choose to make better what is. We are part of the is and cannot in fact choose not to have an effect upon what is affecting us. So we do choose. Then we can choose to have effect for good or ill.
:- Doug.
We’re both here
We’re both here at the same time so we must have some common ground. What do you guess that might be?
:- Doug.
Before you swerved
Let’s not convince anybody of anything. Let’s watch: together, for. Beauty that was first not beauty. The thing in your path that did not exist for you before you swerved.
:- Doug.
Eat bread with it
One can never capture all that one believes, the whole of what one lives within—only live it out, set it free, witness. Accompany. Eat bread with it.
:- Doug.
Lost some thing
You may feel you have lost some thing. (You have.) This is freeing. You are of community. You are of larger. You are in charge. You are even responsible. But the results are not your concern.
:- Doug.
Making home
We are not alone in the world. We have each other. All the us. We have conversing to prove it. Conversing brings us to belonging; conversing makes our home. How then shall we live? Making home for those around us, those of the microbiome in us, those swirling through us.
:- Doug.
unfruitful to ask
Purpose of our intellect
unfruitful to ask
but what use
can we make of it
what good
in this now
:- Doug.
Lyrical and to bedrock
This has been a deepening time. Lots of good study yesterday, with many insights and ways opening, lyrical and touching to bedrock. A soft, solid turn in the process we call living.
:- Doug.
Our rough and ready life
Life, our life, is rough and ready, never perfect. This is the world, the all there is. We are of it, all of it. This is joy and peace. There may be no other heaven nor hell. This is our life, the life: live it.
:- Doug.
All these are of that home
The world, the place where children, old people, all humans walk, play, work, laugh, cry, drink beer, eat, die, this world is small. It exists as a home to humans, and as a home to all manner of beings. Humans exist as outgrowths of that world. It is home and all these are of that home. Our conversations grow out of home, and make home. This is our proper proportion.
:- Doug.
