Why do you, tree, stand upright?
Next to post to Web Why do you, tree, stand upright?
Your branches reach out in all directions
Thick green coat all year
For all that you ought to be round!
Even so, you point to sun and stars!
:- Doug.
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What might be there behind
Let us perceive with our imagination what all is there and might be there behind what we think we see, what we have habitually trained ourselves to see and hear. These hold us in chains. We could be larger if we saw what was really there, saw with our imaginations!
:- Doug.
To see the real ingrained in our daily round:
To see the real ingrained in our daily round:
Hold infinity, eternity, heaven and world
In the eyes of your imagination
:- Doug.
A poet like Lewis Carroll
As a poet I must be as a Lewis Carroll—making words dance to my music, not looking for old tunes to express my new meaning. I can—ought—inject new meaning into the word “Love.” Every person a maker.
:- Doug.
How might we see with our imagination?
How might we see what is
Really
In front of us with our
Imagination?
:- Doug.
Nurturing people
In what ways is it possible to nurture the people in your rounds?What other ways? And again? Might there be other better ways?
:- Doug.
Don’t you wish you could?
Don’t you wish you could
Imagine you world in more
Vivid colors…than you do?
:- Doug.
Space can be opened every hour
Space can be opened every hour
for every course of our lives
:- Doug.
Not just a bigger Daddy
God is not just a bigger other than you, not just a bigger Daddy. There is more in I AM. The former are idols: mistaking the image for the more real.
:- Doug.
creation and denouement
If you believe there was a creation, and there will be a denouement, then you have a doctrine of evolution. The difference between yours and science’s is then only one of kind or maybe only degree.
:- Doug.
Yours is the time
This is the place of divinity
Yours is the time
Now there, unclasp your hands
:- Doug.
So you can hear you talk!
These are people who are doing things, and you want to make them stop doing their good things, so you can hear you talk!
:- Doug.
Goals are dangerous things
Goals are dangerous things
They can covertly deter you
From your purpose
Falsely make you think
You are doing something important
:- Doug.
Wherever we look, whatever we see
Wherever we look, whatever we see
The beauty we see in trees, flowers, gardens, woods, farms
Are reflections of the minds of the women and men who planted them
The beauty we see in nature about us, birds, bumblebees, butterflies, rainbows
Are reflections of our own minds as much as what’s there,
We choose what we see knowingly or otherwise, and miss what others in other cultures or times might see
The beauty—or ugliness—I see in her or him or Hitler or Saddam, or you
Is as much in my thinking as it is there
Whatever meaning, wherever we look, whatever we see
:- Doug.
Were Bohm and Barfield doing the same thing?
Was Bohm doing with thinking what Barfield did with participation? Certainly each worked to make the process conscious. I work to make conversation conscious, purposeful.
:- Doug.
Reaching out in scarier ways
I want to reach out in larger, scarier ways because this is my work and I need to push to expand conversation, even if I want to take an easier way out.
:- Doug.
Juicy and stomach-turning questions
You are invited to open some space within you to consider the juicy and stomach-turning questions with old and new friends. These people want the best for you, and want to help you.
:- Doug.
You are going home
You are going home. But this experience has changed you. And you want to change your home in some profound ways. So can you ever go home again? What are your first next steps? Who will be your companions on your way? How will you make the difference you are here to make?
:- Doug.
