Make time to meet
Make time to meet. This is where life is—authenticity, meaning, love.
:-Doug.
Goals are a way of calling your whole world, and every one in it, an It.
:- Doug.
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If you see G*d as
Just because you cannot think of G*d as bigger than that, please don’t hold back others who do
If you see God as a man on a throne, fine
If she sees G-d as a principle, fine
If he sees G-d as a field, fine
If another sees G*d as unseeable, fine
If another sees G*d as all we see and cannot see, fine
If one sees G*d as steam, coming up from the ground, fine
If one sees G*d as nothing, fine
And true
:- Doug.
You fills
Goal setting is fine for empty things, but authenticity, meaning and love require a You. You fills.
:- Doug.
We go out never knowing
We go out to meeting, never knowing if anyone will meet us. Yet in the possibility of meeting is hope. Only here do we find love, authenticity, meaning.
:- Doug.
Goal setting is of the It world
Goal setting is of the It world and seeks to convert You to It. It is something to be numbered, things to be done, Its to organize, Its to be carved as notches in the handle of our revolver.
:- Doug.
How is something we do to It
How is something we do to It; You is meeting me as I am meeting You: both could be seen as doing to the other and being done by the other, but what is really happening is both are meeting and being transformed by the meeting. No thing and no one is doing the transforming, it is the reaction of them not so much to each other as to the meeting. The meeting is not even a catalyst for it is totally used up. It never returns. The only way we can be free is to meet. There is a How, but it is of the It world. In the You world there is only meeting. “All real life is meeting.”
:- Doug.
In an instant, takes hours
It happens in an instant yet it takes hours to get there
Contemplation, meeting, laughter
:- Doug.
Truth develops
Truth is discovered
Truth is created
Truth develops
Truth discovers
Truth creates
Truth develops
:- Doug.
Life in a thing
Reflect with me on the trees: A couple of years ago one of a pair of trees died. The pair holds up a swing. Last year the dead trunk became weak, wobbly: a small boy may be able to push it over this summer. It is life in a thing which gives it strength and substance.
:- Doug.
Resources banked or applied?
Resources applied are always more valuable than resources banked or otherwise wasted. We may be just ordinary people, but together we can do things experts cannot do apart.
:- Doug.
More eyes, more heads,
More eyes, more heads,
more hearts, more hands:
why wouldn’t we want
to gather people together?
:- Doug.
Encourage storying
Encourage storying. We need new stories, to see our possibilities with fresh live eyes. What is the story of our future? What do we see, together?
:- Doug.
