Soften you to more of life
Vulnerability to others, to the great mystery, to your multiplicity of selves: these might just soften you to more of life.
:- Doug.
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Chapter titles 20 years past your death?
What are the chapter titles of your life ahead? And of your people 20 years after your death?
:- Doug.
Not knowing includes even not knowing thyself
Not knowing includes even not knowing thyself. Might it be wasted effort to try to know someone so complex so unpredictable?
:- Doug.
Ancestor am I to thousands
Ancestor am I
to thousands
of thousands
or just a handful
attend must I
:- Doug.
People more often say “Remember when?” than
People more often say “Remember when?” than “Remember George?” So make active memories.
Give bigger heart-gifts.
Do crazier things. Together.
You only have one today to be outrageous-in-love.
:- Doug.
Everyone dying is yet living. So….
Everyone dying is yet living. So…. The path of the living is moving to thinning, etherealizing. As I become diffuse I encompass more. My reach is wider.
:- Doug.
We can know this about others:
We can know this about others: there are conflicts and hard times in their lives as in ours. This is the human mind—to presume all will flow smoothly and as we want. This is life—that it does not. Here can grow awareness. For conflict is of our essence. Hidden within conflict is cooperation—a pull towards one another.
:- Doug.
I am dying
I am dying. So too all gender-based life forms. Expansively. As I write this I do not know where I am being taken by the words, the images, the rhythms and flows beneath them.
:- Doug.
Beyond the what beyond the why
Beyond the what, beyond the why, there is something else. This is where we need to explore.
:- Doug.
A new form of meditation:
This morning I came up with a new form of meditation: continual reiterated body scanning for what is happening. Itching, rhythms, temperature, stretching, yawning, air flow, clothing touching, comfort, discomfort, toe to head. This gets us out of head and words, out of images, and dreams. We can go from here to floating.
:- Doug.
The numinous in POST
The numinous in POST is that people should be able to choose. The living have work to do right up to the very last minute—and if we over treat, over medicate, send them to the hospital, when they are trying to do their work, we may be interfering. What kind of work?
This may be uncomfortable to talk about, but these things are part of life, and attention must be paid.
If you have been near someone dying, is there something going on other than chemical processes?
:- Doug.
Give what brings you alive
Give what brings you alive
You are not alone
Others need re-souling
:- Doug.
Holding all this consternation
There is a larger
holding all this consternation
in open embrace
:- Doug.
