Not just inviting
My charge is meeting, meeting you in everyman, everywoman—not just telling others to meet.
:- Doug.
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Confusing existence with personal standpoints
Do we but confuse existence with a personal standpoint, as if it were the province of the ego?
Is salvation purely a matter for your individual soul and there is no place for the whole? Must it be us vs them, us ahead of them, get, get, get?
:- Doug.
Prophesy and walk
There is a work I yet have to do—to go beyond the conversation message—to meet the Really Real on behalf of creation—to undertake this task of discovering and creating and conversing ever more profoundly. Prophesy yes, and walk.
:- Doug.
We can meet the is that is our is
We can meet the is that is our is and all is: yet we can barely conceive this meeting. We think to meet the other needs to be like us, yet this is is not like us: this is is us and is at the same time more than us, is the very is of all, is the very is of something more than the all.
:- Doug.
Searching each other is difficult
Searching each other is difficult: it is the stuff of the conversation of which I speak. How do we search each other without being searched, having our soul opened, butterflied with a scalpel, displayed on a wall for all to see? It is best done kindly and gently, knowing that the knife we use on the other will be next handed to them; perhaps we’d best use it on our own darkening spots first. So far I speak only of essential fairness; but into what do we cut? Through the muscle, through the bone, to the marrow: what is the essence of us? What decision have we made to be living as we are? What is the core and heart of our living? Is it life or is it deadly? Is it about filling our stomachs or putting rings on our fingers, or is it about some larger world, people beyond our skins? Is it about our own soul’s salvation, or repair of the world? Is it about meeting our own ego’s demands or meeting divinity in our days? With whom is the conversation in our hearts?
:- Doug.
A week’s softening glimpses
A week’s softening glimpses:
A living in the decision
What is the decision
To which I am called?
Intricate simplicity
Gathering point
Searching each other
Open as the day
:- Doug.
Dancing around the edges
Something dancing around the edges of my consciousness this morning, about oneness and simplicity, about how underlying all is your intricate song of simplicity, something about love and gathering points, and the hum underneath. You are this. Somehow you are both in us and more than us and we have all of you accessible to us. Something also about the higher within each of us that we can simply reach inside and touch and from there live and move and have, have our being. We have what we need.
:- Doug.
not a competition
not a competition
an interweaving
this life
you & I & all these
the whole
is not of us composed
is our roisterous play
intricate simplicity
:- Doug.
then we too become brilliant
Footprints in the Windsm # 1202
When we see each other
as divine gifts, brilliant
then we too become brilliant
we move out of our
dull bored existence into
engaged shimmering
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People entrepreneur
I’m a people entrepreneur. I invite into enterprise sometimes families, sometimes larger families (for example, neighbors).
:- Doug.
The space of invitation
The space of invitation
The G*d of invitation
We are here
Still invited on
& invited to invite
:- Doug.
For those not here
Set an extra chair to be the place of those not able to be here, to be their voices and ears among us.
:- Doug.
often hides
what is happening
often hides
what is not happening
do we seek answers
or ought we seek questions
or do these wordy ways
take us away from our amongs
hide from us that
everything is moving
everything is always moving
:- Doug.
Mind your Ls and Ms
Mind your Ps and Qs; mind your Ls and Ms, too: Produce not consume, open to your Qualities, in Living systems is Magic and Mystery. Here is the higher path, the one Dollars and Numbers and Chronos time can never travel.
:- Doug.
Business calling upon the higher
How do we though business call upon the highest and best in our species?
:- Doug.
Three gifts
Embrace the world as it is
limitless possibilities
what is happening?
what is happening not?
are our souls thirsting to meet?
Three gifts, meeting, we offer
:- Doug.
