A palpable pull
When we are brought forth with someone, by someone, brought into light, there is a palpable pull of that one in our lives: a connection.
:- Doug.
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Does process require a concept of time?
Does process require a concept of time—before and after, is and was? No: permanence; great activity; ever expanding. Wholeness, movement, process.
:- Doug.
imagination includes
Love includes hate and non loving
imagination includes non imagination
and all shades between
:- Doug.
Of what all can you be conscious?
Try this for your meditation today: of what all can you be conscious?
Your body: how do your legs, feet, hands feel? Upon what are they resting? What is touching them, and how does that touch feel?
Thoughts: What were the last six thoughts you had? What does the breath feel like in you throat, your lungs?
What are your emotions?
What is your waking state? Alert, drowsy?
What are you noticing? What sounds are there about you—the heating or cooling system, the birds outside your window?
Others: Are others moving about you, whether you can see them or not? Are they likely thinking? What are they likely doing, feeling? What are the animals and insects up to?
Meaning: What is the meaning of this moment for this moment? For your life’s span? About whom are you thinking? Whom else?
Fit: How do you fit in the universe? How does the universe fit in you?
Process: What is the process moving within the cosmos? What is the all there is? What occupies the betweens and the spaces? What is it up to?
:- Doug.
Is East opposed to West?
Is East opposed to West
or are they one continuum?
What tricks we play upon our times—
requiring most to lose we lose.
:- Doug.
Inter-creative?
Are we inter-creating,
creating each other
inter-creative,
creating others
emerging
unknown until we choose?
are we
—not you, not me—
the god we thought we were worshiping
out there?
:- Doug.
Personal only?
Personal only salvation
Saved for what?
To bring others here?
Why? You don’t care
Unless
You and they are connected into one
:- Doug.
Do the life-affirming work
This is life-affirming work. It is about opening what may be life suppression systems so that life’s work can get done.
What is life’s work? Life!
Within that I see all of the words that are contained in that: G!d, imagination, love, laughter, story, conversation.
But I also see ways to speak with people who are not yet in the spiritual way of seeing: Life is the work that needs to get done. Money, business, creativity, everything is there to feed life, to nurture and grow it. Whatever does not fulfill that role gets cracked open.
:- Doug.
the chick must break the shell to live
We disorganize communities
to affirm life
imagination affirms life
action affirms life
organization for times gone by
stifles and suppresses and must be cast aside
the chick must break the shell to live
:- Doug.
Imagination beyond a collection
In our imagination is beyond a collection of mes. There is an us, besides: more than a simple sum. There is a multiplication, too, and a trigonometry and an algebra and many calculi.
:- Doug.
The best that can be
The best that can be
thought or said
painted or composed
is ever in the reach
—singly & within the groups—
of every person
:- Doug.
Poets do not know
Poets do not know
the fullest meaning of their works
(only professors do!)
what readers bring is part—
even then the poem remains pregnant
Persons do not know
the fullest meaning of their minds
(only their minds are of the universal imagination!)
it takes a community too—
and even then the minds remain pregnant
:- Doug.
Stirred in
Poets know not
full meanings
of their jottings:
universal imagination
stirred in
:- Doug.
What happens in together is this:
Conversation is
how we create:
how we imagine:
together
What happens in together is this: ideas are easily generated. But ideas that work require more than one person. Together means both that we generate ideas no person alone could generate (in addition to those we generate alone), and we promote the ideas we will work on. We both narrow and widen: we narrow the ideas to cut out the off-kilter ones while we widen the number of possibilities within the kilter.
:- Doug.
Flowers who fear to open are we
Flowers who fear to open are we
Open to be seen, open to the bee,
Open to let our fragrance out and then
To die and become fertilizer for others
:- Doug.
