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This is why I need other people. A small metaphor of G*d living inside my head is not enough (a reason is that our thoughts eddy in their accustomed pools, do not allow us out); G*d truly meets us in intercourse with other people, and not just through them. We are that of G*d. Our meeting is that of G*d. We are living in Heaven. We have all challenges-opportunities-demonics-divinity. It is our task to make all work together for good, and it is this that is of G*d.

:- Doug.

Martin Buber suggests that relation has these things: mutual confirmation; cooperation; genuine dialogue. These help me understand what I am working on: mutual confirmation of which hearing is key; working together; genuine dialogue—which suggests to me that we have so narrowed the words conversation, intercourse, and relation, that we miss the larger world that is possible.

:- Doug.

Seek to see others not as other but as others, to put a human face on the world, the masses, our challenge-opportunities. We are the ones we seek, not the problems. This perhaps (!) is Heaven. We are to seek each other out, not wall ourselves away from each other. We are real; our mind-made clutchings are crazy-making.

:- Doug.

Butterfly this world
Open it up—
Give its peoples wing—
Give it wing—
To fly among—

:- Doug.

In guardianships
In immigration
In what we assume is
Doing good
Or fighting evil
In life entire
Seek out
Others rather than other
Seek no objects to act upon—
More humanly—
Make relation know persons—

:- Doug.

I like this kind of writing, catching phrases catching life breaking open words and person seeing hearing touching tasting smelling who might be we

No period

No terminus we go on for ever for ever we are needed

Needful are we does this mean we have needs or are needed to fulfill others yes of course

:- Doug.

G* is not my creator
—That’s a human construct
And for me much too—

:- Doug.

G*d is the intention of the universe. Intention always moves toward pattern & pattern is always in relation to, that is, toward the rest. Pattern is the definition of love.

:- Doug.

G-d is beyond
Our metaphors
A living, breathing
Now and Hear

:- Doug.

To free the Expanse of the voiceless—there is something that we need to hear to make the world whole—all that it can be. We are inserted into a growing world, not a fixed one. Fixed is dying. Live is growing.

Why is it urgent? Simply because people are dying and suffering and we can with an ear—a word heard—make it wholer. Simply because we are missing opportunities to make the present and the future fuller for us all.

:- Doug.

You can be too large
For the grave to hold
How far is your Expanse?
Do you touch the World
The Voiceless do you hear?

:- Doug.

G*d is more than creator: this is an incomplete metaphor, for G*d more birthed the universe than worked at drawing board and iron forge. How do you love a world you have merely created? But a life you birthed….

:- Doug.

G*d is too large for metaphor
How can the smaller contain the all?
Only point—

:- Doug.

People
Together
Immense

:- Doug.

Growing
Outward
Divinely

:- Doug.

Then
There is
Still work
For us

Somewhat
To do
Somewho
To meet

:- Doug.

You see
The important thing
To me

Engaging people
In their world
Popping in & out

Of each other’s lives
Hinting
We can

Evolve this world
Make whole
For all—

Conversation—

You see
The important thing
For us all—

:- Doug.

To get us to think: In my mind the one holdout juror in “Twelve Angry Men” says, I just want us to examine the evidence. I am not trying to persuade.

Yes, my work is being done when people start thinking together.

And still…I want to see this activity spread wider than just a few juicy conversations among my friends. I want people to be conscious about what they are doing: I want people to be conscious of thinking together.

What if thinking together were how we evolve next?

:- Doug.

Opening space is growing peoples.

:- Doug.

Consider how little your challenge in reading
If you’re not needing a dictionary
Sure challenge there is without words unusual
But if you don’t ask what it is you are reading
Then you do not see—or do—all calling you

:- Doug.

If we are thinking—after setting
Goals we needs must ask
Where go we after this—& Why?

:- Doug.

I don’t want to reverse all our thinking: I just want us to think.

:- Doug.

Let us speak to one another of what is in our hearts—People will no longer have to tell each other Remember the Lord—God will be in their hearts and known by them. And we have forgotten that in favor of the encrusted religions of today!

We have to be happy, we have to do what is our real nature—which is love and giving and creating. If we suppress people, tell them how bad they are, demand of them groveling submission, then we are killing G*d and that of G-d in the world.

:- Doug.