Goals are artificial
Goals are artificial
The world rolls on
There are no ends
:- Doug.
My poetry usually intends
All possible meanings
How can there only be one?
Can you think of others
For this?
:- Doug.
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Poetry usually intends
The world as who:
The world as who:
and all the questions
may become profounder
who are you?
who am I?
who are we?
are we who?
:- Doug.
In inviting, imagining, and engaging are you….
In inviting, imagining, and engaging are you….
:- Doug.
Quick, try to catch who
Each of you streams, pieces breaking off
carried past
quick, try to catch who
each and both might be
too, her gaze creates
:- Doug.
to transcend your past:
Seeing a new panorama: your conversing partner creates you, as well invents the relating/entity of you both. This is the Barfieldian observation that what is real is neither out there alone, nor in the mind alone, but is a concoction of both—cannot be otherwise. We cannot take in all of the other person, whether what is out there, or what is in there out there. But we can as we go make up ourselves, alone and together.
On top of this we apply the different powers of thinking and conversing: 1. thinking mechanically, 2. reflecting, 3. thinking together, 4. reflecting together, 5. coming together, experiencing some aspect of oneness, 6. doing together, 7. ???
See: together invents. Together gives occasion for newness, a next discontinuous with a past. Together opens way for transcending.
So that: if you want to transcend your past, get together!
:- Doug.
Birds flitting
Birds flitting about. Eating are they? Playing? Enjoying the airy ways? What are the names of these birds? I am Adam: having no names from other people, I will choose. Perhaps Joe, Sarah, Frederica?
:- Doug.
of large measures of ego and fear
In competition, planning, and goals we can see a large measure of ego, disavowal of responsibility, and beneath them, fear.
:- Doug.
Strangeness:
Strangeness:
we look at the same
and see different worlds
when small, the soul keeps shriveling
when large, keeps growing
small, focusing on world sees only
something to eat,
something to fear
growing, focusing on world sees
friends, favorable winds,
collaborators, growth
both states look through self upon the same world
one fearing, the other engaging
:- Doug.
Competition is light and easy
Competition is light and easy and mostly free of responsibility. Relationship is avoided for it is difficult, takes mindful work of head, heart, and hand, and responsibility for a larger universe than oneself alone.
:- Doug.
continually grows smaller–pop!
To pursue competition is to enter into a sphere that continually grows smaller till it vanishes—pop!
:- Doug.
Competition serves the ego
Competition serves the ego
Ego set loose is the bane of the race
:- Doug.
for you a great sadness
Your words have stirred up in me for you great sadness; for you can serve the one or serve the other.
:- Doug.
Attaining the highest rung of your profession
You are at the highest rung of your profession when you work to the good of the larger than yourself—even if you are a newcomer.
:- Doug.
driver going around barricades
The social form of illiteracy is selfishness. See the driver going around the barricades?
:- Doug.
I do not understand
I do not fully understand “The field speaks” but find it evocative, larger than I know, and true. The smaller truth is that in meetings sometimes someone else will speak what I wanted to, and maybe better than I would have. The next larger is the scientific discovery made in widely scattered places by people not in obvious contact with one another. The larger is larger than those and unknown to me, but felt and present.
:- Doug.
