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I touch anew
the larger
‘most every day

:- Doug.

The between
is found
in meeting

:- Doug.

That of the larger
In every between

:- Doug.

Do I need to see the divinity in people
In order to tease it out?

:- Doug.

In a world unfolding, our task is to unfold, to smooth, to shake out, to air out, to enfold what we see standing in need of these actions.

:- Doug.

Am I there? I have touched and been touched. The light cutting the dark, the lumps under the grey cloth, the ripping: these I understand now larger than in prior years, smaller than in coming nows. For instance, what do I make of “God” standing beside me, arm around my shoulder? Equality? No. Touching, partaking? Yes. Particle, wave, participant, actor, intermediate cause, link, agent? Probably. Will I ever be there? In a world unfolding, how could any of us? Is G the world unfolding? I do not know. But that is the direction to look.

:- Doug.

There are many of us who have a touch of the cosmic consciousness, if by that we mean those who apprehend something larger than in ordinary hours. More, larger: words hinting at something including and transcending the body, the sidereal, the mind.

:- Doug.

The larger is here to be seen by all—and in an instant—and maybe gradually.

:- Doug.

Service (love) is a path to the larger.

:- Doug.

The world is whole, holy, God: but by world I mean something a bit bigger than you do.

:- Doug.

This eternal muddle
This eternal beginning
This eternal living

:- Doug.

I will tell something important that happened in my life. I will not continue until I feel my way into the emotion of that moment.

:- Doug.

Today I realized that there were some contraries or tensions in the words I have been using: generating-inviting; circulating-freeing; ventilating-calling. The last not so much tension. “Without contraries is no progression.” Generating and inviting progress to welcoming. Circulating and freeing progress to acting together. Ventilating and calling progress to gathering.

:- Doug.

Is the power of God this power?

:- Doug.

There is a hubris in
keeping ourselves as Quakers
as Americans
as thinkers
pure

:- Doug.

Let yourself
sit a beat
with this

:- Doug.

I am not equal of God
But God is equal of me

:- Doug.

Words fail because they are of the left brain, the intellect. Pictures might tell more.

:- Doug.

Patience too is action
Emptying goes beyond patient waiting
Emptying too is action

:- Doug.

The words go
after we have gone
places beyond words

:- Doug.

Because I am startled
I write
To startle

:- Doug.

As I grow older
some things are slowing
others speeding

:- Doug.

Every day I see afresh
My vision is renewed
O words you do not tell, you do not tell

:- Doug.