Had we but ears
Had we but ears for the task
Even the revving of the engine
Would speak to our core
:- Doug.
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With emptiness in our souls
With emptiness in our souls
We think we throw a party
Yet to truly converse bowls and platters
We must fill with tears and laughter
From among
:- Doug.
In embryo
In embryo
Among us
The better world we so crave
Yet to see it walking, playing
From its coeur, feet and fingers
Tender we must grow conversing
In embryo
:- Doug.
If I see my work as healer–
If I see my role as healer—
it means I listen more
I hope it means I hear more
for more is in these hearts
ready to come to voice
from coeur can come spreading
roots, engaging roots,
living roots, desiring more life:
family become whole
—If I encourage these to hear, maybe this
family becomes whole
:- Doug.
What is my work as a lawyer?
What is my work as a lawyer? I am getting the inkling it is about whole-making, about bringing the family of humankind to a larger wholeness, completeness, fullness. It is not about solving problems but about living life.
:- Doug.
We are not broken
Of course people come to us lawyers with problems, but they do not want to be here. I want to turn the coin over and look at what can we do to make wholeness. Let’s reel in toward wholeness, let’s not fix what’s broken. We are people, we are not broken, we are growing all the time.
:- Doug.
If we make our families one, our communities follow.
If we make our families one, our communities follow.
:- Doug.
After a committee meeting
After a committee meeting this morning, a realization: If Martha had been putting this project together alone, even if she had the time to do it all, it would not have been as good as it is because it would just be one person’s ideas, they would be untried against others’ experiences, wisdom, feelings, intuitions and spirits. We need each other. We think better—and indeed maybe only—together.
:- Doug.
Some times
Sometimes we worry
& the word of another
gives us new perspective
Sometimes we’re stuck
& helping another unstick
loosens our bands
Sometimes the facts from the teacher
need a bridge to us
or a hand to pull us across
Sometimes sharing
our real life’s pain
gives us hope
Times we make something good happen
we naturally ask people who care to help
because we think better together
:- Doug.
Twinkling of eyes
In twinkling of eyes
In kindliness of handshake
In garden ground beneath summer feet
In leaning forward toward each other
To hear
In warmth and heat of interchange
More than in far off sky
It’s here I meet G*d
:- Doug.
Observer must participate
Observer must participate
For good or ill
Or get twisted
& die by drops
:- Doug.
So what if we fail?
Just came across this and it has me wondering and it is has me uplifted:
What if we fail? So what if we fail? | Integral Yeshe.
What I really liked was this:
“I no longer know why I’m doing what I’m doing. I really do believe that my efforts are doomed to failure. I won’t succeed in changing even my small part of the world. I truly believe that our civilisation will not change its unsustainable ways before it falls over the cliff. I only know that I am still called to act, to care, to strive, to stand up for what I cannot resist the call to stand up for – and above all, to participate.
“…. I feel much stronger, more grounded and resilient, now that I have accepted the inevitability of what I most fear. I no longer feel I have anything left to defend or protect….
“All I need to do is follow the call, when it comes, from my deepest core which is also my umbilical connection to the Whole….
“…my mantra for this year is “what if it’s easy?” And it usually turns out to be exactly that.”
Yes!
:- Doug.
Heart is in just being here
Heart is in just being here
Being present
Flowing out
Receiving in
:- Doug.
