can be the glance
In playing together can be the glance, sometime as wink. Playing together can be entry way. Playing together and working together: who can tell a difference?
:- Doug.
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Truly say You to the stranger
We can truly say You to the stranger, for in approaching that one we step before the countenance.
:- Doug.
The right action this moment seeks from us
What is the right action this moment seeks from us?
:- Doug.
Birth for something
What is important is not only the birth of human persons in meeting, but the birth for something. First there is body, then soul, then the largest, highest, deepest is spirit. If we do not invest our spirits, we have held back and the life we get in return is wrinkled before it is greening. If we do not invest for our spirits, life dies.
:- Doug.
Not this subject
It is not about this subject of our conversation, but about loving the people.
:- Doug.
Not failing to relate
It may be that I am not so much failing to relate as grieving the loss of another potential person.
:- Doug.
Forming ice
Even saying we want to have conversations at least turns the conversations into things, turns me away from people. Perhaps in this society we talk about things to break the ice—or to form it.
:- Doug.
take the fork in the road
Most of us take the fork in the road.
With the fork we eat our meet?
:- Doug.
A necessary disorganizing
Some of our formulae, like “In the name of the Father Son and Holy Ghost” get in the way of meeting. They put a crust between us. We need to break through. This is a needed disorganizing.
:- Doug.
Half person
When you are only a half person and you come across one who is whole, how would you ever see him or her? The whole person would see you, of course, and hear you, although you could not hear him or her.
You are a half person when you are complete in yourself, when you see your world as composed of Its. You are a whole person when you are part with others in a larger life, seeing yourself as extended and opened by others known and met.
In one instance you are dying, in the other aborning. In one your dying senses shrivel in—how could you touch? In the whole you reach out and are often met.
When half you cannot see the whole in front of your face; when whole you see half and whole: how are the two to speak?
:- Doug.
a third may emerge
Yes, if we share ideas
now each has two—
yet truth is strange:
a third may emerge
more significant than
the ones we brought
:- Doug.
when we are subjective
Touching, participating: these are the same. We partake of each other and the in between, which is the eternal, the life. I am the way the truth and the life is not what it seems, a statement of the I am, but instead a definition: the way is not just a way but is the essence of G*d. Life is G*d. What you call truth is a piece of G*d. Touching, participating in G*d are we, when we are subjective: open, part of the whole, integral, essential.
:- Doug.
