What would you like to see come out of this meeting?
What would we like to see come out of this meeting?
Do we want them to link their callings to this project?
:- Doug.
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You are a good friend
You are a good friend
looking for news you can use
or which can use you
:- Doug.
What questions remain unanswered?
What questions remain unanswered? Could these people help?
:- Doug.
“Doing” the “audience”
Do we want to do the audience
or do we want them to do us?
That is, to do with us?
What do they have to do with us?
:- Doug.
When calling a meeting, decide:
When calling a meeting, decide:
Is this the end of the answers
or the start of the questions?
:- Doug.
Why should we want to consciously evovle?
Why should we want to consciously evolve? As I thought about this late last night, I thought it a response to 2 poles: hubris and humility. Hubris in that we think we cannot improve our species; humility in that we are reluctant to try. Also, that it is necessary for the good of our grandchildren’s grandchildren.
Is there more here? What does it mean, grandchildren’s grandchildren’s good? That is too far off to imagine—and a seventh generation beside! What of our grandchildren? What can we do to make it better for them?
Do we do well to make life better for a later generation? Do we not have plenty of illness and injustice and forgotten ones in our own time? Does not changing ourselves lead to changing future generations—they see what works, they learn to meet?
But if we keep these people in mind, lovingly, do we not give meaning to our days? Is that then what this is about—a way to give meaning to our days? Are not there other ways? Of course. But do these not all point to the redemption of creation? Toward making whole?
For me it is the grey cloth and the ripping of it, the making poke holes, gentle little ways to say, This is the way, let it out, let it out! What is it? G-d.
It is wholeness then, fullness, completeness. That is what it means to me to consciously evolve. Why consciously evolve? To get beyond hubris and humility to wholeness, fullness, completeness: to G*d.
:- Doug.
Conscious evolution is people turning to one another
Conscious evolution is people turning to one another. Turning: a good word, metanoia, returned to its roots!
Conscious evolution: choosing the direction of our future, our destination, our destiny. Is it toward coming together or coming apart? Is conscious evolution to be toward kindness or toward violence? Toward living in anger, striking and being struck, toward living isolated, or toward aiding one another as a way of life? Toward destroying all who are different from us (who is not?), or toward accepting their contributions to us?
:- Doug.
The world will act back
The world will act back. The spoon is stirred too: each acts upon the other, both are changed, the in between is changed, the surroundings are changed. It is all one and yet a component can affect the whole. There are no catalysts!
:- Doug.
Love is the higher of the two
Love is the higher of the two. Love is the genesis of law. Law is a halfway measure till we can get to the base of love. Law is a way of making love concrete and easier to apply. Law ought to be flexible, not brittle.
:- Doug.
The meal is not the food
The meal is not the food
the conversation is not the topic
these the gathering beginning
:- Doug.
no way to work these dynamics
There is no way to work
these dynamics of conversation
all we can do is step aside
invite and step aside
better, invite and jump in!
:- Doug.
express them
The best way to know another is to try to
express them
once you know another you must
express them
the spiral goes round
hints of the purpose of all living
:- Doug.
Be their story?
Do we want people to hear the story or be the story?
Do we want people to hear our pitch or be their story?
:- Doug.
Dangerous prayer
Dangerous prayer: What’s your question?
What if God in response asks
What’s your question?
In that I heard
What’s so important you will give your life?
:- Doug.
Ever notice…?
Ever notice that after a play or a good seminar, when we go home we want to talk about it? We want to assimilate it, re-enjoy, extend it. What if we could harness that energy at the event itself? Get the people there to assimilate, re-enjoy and especially extend it, starting right there? What if?
:- Doug.
Proximity
Proximity: notice what can happen when we bring people who care near each other. Ideas bounce and blend and reproduce. Passions infuse. Keep us in tightly sealed containers and nothing new happens. Juxtapose us and there is possibility. For fire.
:- Doug.
Express persons
If we express a person we come to know that person and share that person. Share with that person him or herself, share with us, share us, for in expressing another person’s truth, beauty and goodness we express all humanity’s. To express is to share.
:- Doug.
