Challenge habits
Elders challenge the world’s habits.
:- Doug.
Elderly is a four-letter word; elders earn respect.
:- Doug.
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long wide and deep
Because they have vision long, wide, and deep, elders are capable of the universe.
:- Doug.
Transformer
An elder is a transformer as well as a transmitter of humanity. She thinks about what she has received, molds, adds, deducts, invents—all from a capacious worldview. Possible world and good emerge here.
:- Doug.
Only old things from goals
Only old things can come out of goals. Imagination is foreclosed.
:- Doug.
Mutual influence
We live in a world of mutual influence. I influence you influence me. Thoughts influence you influence thoughts. All flows, all grows.
:- Doug.
“Not the time”
When we hear ourselves say, “Now is not the time,” we do well to look deeper: it is evidence that fear is at work in us. We can face our fears and say “Now is the time” and find it was not so difficult as our fears made it out to be. Here is our opportunity to get past the debilitating fear that keeps us stuck.
:- Doug.
Shorter-sighted
There is nature’s order—an emergent, co-arising sort of process—and humans’—usually shorter-sighted and imposed.
:- Doug.
Woundability
It is not vulnerability itself that is required of us, but proceeding in the face of woundability. Naked in soul.
:- Doug.
Draws animals to you
Vulnerability meets touching the wheel. Dare to converse. To jump in. To say your truth. Put it at risk. Put you at risk. It is your humanity, it is what draws persons and animals to you.
:- Doug.
Influencing influenced
We are not action nor becoming so much as integral to the influencing influenced flow, morphing.
:- Doug.
Goals eventually are not
Goals eventually are not. They change as we move and with events and incoming information. They change us as well. We change them, grossly and subtly. They are thus never fully realizable. They do not exist except to morph. And morph us.
:- Doug.
