Silence heals
Silence heals.
:- Doug.
God! Everywhere I look!
There you move!
So you must be moving
When someone opposes me
—Is it I? Is it she? We?
:- Doug.
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Everywhere I look!
one open between
In meeting rooms we take
A chair with one open between
Do other cultures, too,
Avoid crowding another
Or are there some who
Value gathering close?
Trees stand together
Unless we plant them otherwise
:- Doug.
Getting in the way
Traffic outside!
Toddlers scattering things!
God’s movements are noisy
Getting in the way of what we’d rather
Shh, listen to life’s rathers
:- Doug.
Continually I spiral about you
Continually I spiral about you
Frustrated by my attempts to grasp you
Until I see:
“You” and nouns are
Powerless to contain you
:- Doug.
One juicy question
Bringing people together
One juicy question at a time
Seeing what happens
:- Doug.
not how many hear your message
It is not a matter of number of people who hear your message: results come not from gathering but from converging.
:- Doug.
does more than transform and add
Remember, conversation does more than transform things and add to them—it produces.
:- Doug.
I see before I see
There is truth and there is error in what I write: I write provisionally. I see before I see.
:- Doug.
Messiness rules!
There is a systolic and a diastolic in our meetings. Messiness rules! Both are necessary—coming together and moving out. So the way of union and wholeness is far beyond unanimity: it runs the way of converging, ever reaching for, never reaching, one mutually attractive land. This is as it should be: no two people have in mind the same exact land. The cacophony of an orchestra tuning up is the work of approaching harmony—of many distinct voices. They are never perfectly in tune, but they get close enough.
:- Doug.
Errors in saying who moves
It may not be accurate to say divinity moves nor that a human moves, for it implies first they are separate, second they only move separately, and third the source of the movement is from one or both. Pour two chemicals into a beaker and you get a strong action which neither takes alone—nor could.
:- Doug.
Center of their being
Who are these who dare
To set the center of their being
Outside themselves?
I might yet
I might now
:- Doug.
An invitational form of meeting
Open Space is an invitational form of meeting: evocative, egalitarian, emergent, welcoming any input and outcome, lightly holding possibilities of transformation and likelihood of a break with the past.
:- Doug.
What we do for good has momentum
What we do for good has momentum
It goes on forever
Unless someone steps in to
Stop or redirect it
So we have the power
We seldom use
To step in and stop or redirect
Forces moving against life
:- Doug.
Bringing families to their
Sometimes caring is bringing families to their elemental togetherness.
:- Doug.
Ideas previously unthought
Better we do not so much get answers
As responses—
Ideas previously unthought
Meanings previously not so fully recognized
Possibilities discontinuous with the past
Evocations, clues, and hints
To who we are in chrysalis
:- Doug.
The heart is broken open
In this world of immanent sacredness
Transcendence is met when
The heart is broken open to let
Intimacy spill in
:- Doug.
