G*d is my milieu
G*d is my milieu.
:- Doug.
Hunched over is woman
From years of carrying
Her ego & all ours?
:- Doug.
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Two kinds of sacrificing
There is sacrificing your ego,
which leads to your true self
& sacrificing your true self,
which leads to tension between
your true self which is ever part of you
& your ego which is not
So will it be continual weariness or energy?
Many women live in true self sacrifice
many men live in ego
Free men and women have
thrown away the mask
:- Doug.
Moon and star do a slow dance
Moon and star do a slow dance
We, minute gazers, wonder
At this vast & profound beauty
Just maybe, some space-time else,
Some one is seeing us
As their own
Wonder-star
:- Doug.
heart we share lives in us
The heart we share
lives in us no matter
how much stuff we throw on top
no matter how much we argue & scream at
no matter how we get distracted
not sugary adolescent words a-many
but strong adult poetry
each reader must work into the open
this heart into which we were born
and still live
& we can yet be human
& a people
:- Doug.
Pure absence?
What is pure
absence that
we might sit in
it, & what is it to be
without expectation?
:- Doug.
It has come! Our invitation to
It has come!
Our invitation to
Meet with great souls!
They’re all about us now
Let’s not miss a one!
Each an edge
Transformative
:- Doug.
Wild all around us
There is deep all around us. I see this from the fact that I have insights nearly daily that are profound. I am growing, but they are growing wild all about!
:- Doug.
three coins
three coins
same worth:
grief & amazement
empty-making & whole-making
surrender & becoming generosity
:- Doug.
Go away, Holy Spirit
Go away Holy Spirit
if you would fill us
we cannot be filled
full as we are
empty us of our holy thoughts
make us
wholly empty
of what we think is right
& to holy humanity
to whole holiness
open us
:- Doug.
emptying the pond
We empty the pond not
to fill it anew but
to dig it deeper, wider, to
open it to the
oceans
:- Doug.
of the hum
We humans
—Are of the humus
Composed of the decomposing
—Are of the hum
Composed of work and music
:- Doug.
Look for action, movement
Look for action, look for movement: here we can dive from a high cliff into deep waters.
:- Doug.
empty wallet gifts
From my empty wallet there is naught to give. So I offer you wrinkled ear and fragment of poem, cool water and a well still and deep.
:- Doug.
To seek contexts in which to open
I promise to seek contexts in which I can open up in a way that is meaningful to the others nearby, not to force my point of view but to impart my self, to surrender up my self, to be generous.
:- Doug.
Surrender and generosity
Surrender and generosity are the same being, just in different garb. To be generous, we need to give of our substance and essence, what we cannot afford. This is the definition of surrender. So our task in life is to give all of ourselves to the point where we receive all of ourselves. We cannot learn who we are save by giving up our clinging to who we thought we were. We are born in the interchange. If we stay a tight ball we stay small. Open and be large.
In my own life I see the need of sharing my soul work with those nearby on the path. Not to teach or recruit. To “impart as much as you can of your spiritual being” (Schweitzer).
:- Doug.
