The need to hate each other
Like husbands and wives, even sometimes siblings, we need to not like each other very much, to hate each other, in order to get to owning our love of one another.
:- Doug.
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Grief, conflict, antagonism brewing
There is something brewing in me around these notions of grief, conflict, and antagonism, something that says these are part of life and need to be taken into the embrace. We cannot have conversation wholly agreeable, but it can be wholly loving, even when we are hating and fighting. We can find a way to include us all, and all our aspects. Otherwise we war and risk losing one another.
Perhaps I am trying to make these make sense, when they are more aptly sensed.
We may need to live through the storms and the pain to get to the other side. We do not need to war. We need to hear others, to give expression, and to hear ourselves.
:- Doug.
What we lack in a cared-for world:
What we lack in a cared-for world is creativity: our need to give, to be needed or at least of worth, to love.
:- Doug.
American leadership shooting ourselves in the
America’s leadership of the world is based on creativity. Yet our economic engine runs on scarcity. We are in danger of shooting ourselves in the head.
:- Doug.
The Alamo story, gasping
What are examples of knowing from within? Within contradictions, polarities, conflict, grief, the body, theater, imagination, intimacy? Hearing the Alamo story and being, precisely being, in the Alamo, where these particular real men died. In times of not grasping, simply gasping.
:- Doug.
My antipathy toward goal-setting runs deep
Perhaps my antipathy toward goal-setting runs deeper. Goal-setting is ego-driven, seeing all others as Its. It avoids profound in-taking, soul, and hearing.
:- Doug.
Gaps in our speech
The gaps in our speech—even aphasias—can be invitations to come rest in silence…. What if precisely then we stopped to listen? Both of us? There is a rhythm to weather, the low pressure drawing wind out of the high pressure, the lightning and the sun alternating. Our words, our hearing, too. Come enter the world whole.
:- Doug.
Plot, story, tension
Plot, story, tension
Compassion, vulnerability, hate
Opening, celebrating, conflict
Greening opens
Unexpected expected
:- Doug.
Why else condition compassion?
Materialism is dead-making. Why else would we condition compassion for the foreigner in our midst on something like a line in the sand or an uttered set of words? Why else condition compassion for our elders on budget concerns?
:- Doug.
Hear–and say–everything
Hear—and say—everything
of profound importance
then we are wholly human
:- Doug.
Stations on the road
Hearing, vulnerability, empathy are stations on the road to compassion. Beware, you who would retain your ego safe from living!
:- Doug.
what matters goes vertical
In drama is movement
a car chase horizontal
what matters goes vertical
:- Doug.
A rainbow missed
The all but seen
Subtle is the world
Of persons
A rainbow missed
Until we glance and stop
:- Doug.
