Being, feeling
This is being alive
And the feeling of being alive
:- Doug.
What is the feeling of being alive now? Now? Now again?
:- Doug.
Archive for the 'Conversations' Category
Before you interpret
Awareness is aliveness
before interpretation.
You’re not the only one alive
aliveness moves through you
and emerges from you.
:- Doug.
Grief is sharing life
Grief is a sharing:
In dying, not death
Death happens once only
Dying and grieving
Are for the living
:- Doug.
Grieving and fatigue
Grieving and fatigue are signs you’re yet alive. Only living people can have either.
:- Doug.
Awaken me
I have thought of some responsibilities on my own. But others can awaken me to greater, to variety, to possibility.
:- Doug.
Mystery of me
Self expression is a way of hearing the mystery of me. Conversation is a way of hearing the larger mystery of we.
:- Doug.
Conversation objects
Conversation demands
Conversation objects
Conversation fights you. Both.
:- Doug.
Transparent to itself
With humanity the world becomes conscious of itself. With conversation humanity becomes—however haltingly—transparent to itself. With transparency comes increasing clarity and the risk of compassion. Hearing the stories of our others heals both of us, that is, makes us whole. Makes us one, in some way. This is a power, a potential, we did not before possess.
We have then responsibility for heart-hearing.
:- Doug.
re-mark-possible
With conversation we become
transparent
to self and one another
even so, rather than known
re-mark-possible
:- Doug.
Unison sound voice
Conversation is symphony. A unison of sounds, harmony, concord of sound and voice.
:- Doug.
What does the poem?
In writing ask, “What does the poem want to say?” Avoid writing what your rational mind works up.
:- Doug.
The force of all living
The force of all living
streams through you and me
a breath not quite a whisper
a wind of the fifty-three sacred dimensions
communion!
:- Doug.
