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Sometimes I get tired of word studies
and just want
with G-d
to be

:- Doug.

In powerlessness there is power
In power powerlessness
Yet the two can still speak with
when they try
or maybe when they give up trying
Oh what we all have lost
for lack of conversation

:- Doug.

Be in the assembly
be gentle there with yourself:
Hold your tongue
Stand in your bewilderment
Give up your pond of knowledge
for oceans of G-d

:- Doug.

Is it possible to travel so far into the land of lost that you are lost of lost and thus have reached found?

:- Doug.

It is not just that the center of the heap has knowledge and energy and wisdom to solve their own problems elegantly and copiously; it is that there is human capacity here, capacity to the power of capacity, bouncing off of capacity, just skittering to be loosed.

:- Doug.

Notice those capacities, anywhere, anytime; seek intimacy, ideals (what else should we expend our lives seeking?); be foolish enough to seek the ideal, the meeting, the intimacy and bewildered when you do find. Make room, not space. Make home.

:- Doug.

Notice those capacities!

:- Doug.

What we are fighting is who we are.

:- Doug.

Capacities
Anytime
Intimacy
Every tip
Every hair
Be foolish
Bewildered
Roomy

:- Doug.

Is it something grand or something ill with our society that we have car seats that are heated and cooled?

:- Doug.

To my good friends–

My spirit at the moment is like the landscape in front of me: it looks cold and barren, but I know beneath the surface things are sleeping, things are growing, things are doing what they have need of doing. The spirit is blowing around and through, and some dancing is going on somewhere.

:- Doug.

When the chips are down, someone will ask for dip.

:- Doug.

We are of many lights.

:- Doug.

Contemplation (and living) is
not about clearing the world out but
being fully in the world
open with G-d.

:- Doug.

Conversation helps us glimpse inside others to see who we really are.

:- Doug.

What would happen if we opened space in our lives for G-d, continuously?

:- Doug.

In conversation we are able to fulfill each other. This is one of the meanings of open.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 642

Find something amazing–a sparkling drop of dew, oil in a rain puddle, the leaf of a tree, a CD held just so in the light, a baby, your hands, your breath, your pulse, a strand of hair, dishwater bubbles, a problem that won’t quit, sunlight in your face, a loved one snuggling–and meditate on that.

Please pass it on.

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There is a magic here: a live unknown ungraspable of which we are a part which is beyond the borders of our skins. It vivifies. It is more. We can describe it only partially: we can stand there with it, shaking, knowing we are more in its more and that there is more than we could touch in a million lifetimes. It is a good magic, drawing out of us, for us to live within, all the best of us. We help others. We lift up. We grow. We become more. It is done together in such a way that each shines in his or her best ways. Flash. Quicken.

:- Doug.

When I think of your qualities, I am no longer meeting you. Meeting consumes.

:- Doug.

G-d whispers
in the wind
in our lives

:- Doug.

We have both the rational mind and the heart to reach deep inside one another and the world around us. To spurn either as unworthy would be a waste.

:- Doug.

To my good friends–

I have a division in my thinking about the world. This division needs healing. It is a split of the skin between business people and the rest of persons. The healing is possible here: business people in their ads are often saying Notice me. I count. I’m important. In their decisions they are often saying I want to get ahead because I want safety and security, not to have to worry if I will life free next year or in retirement. There may be greed, but it grows out of these. They are human. They are stuck, in themselves. They need healing, too. Compassion is prescribed.

It’s perhaps a language issue. Since I have been in both worlds–business and caring, basic and unitary Christianity for instance–I am capable of working out the bridges. Do I want to? Is there enough to do without this bridge building work? Is the bridge perhaps not language so much as just meeting and getting busy–that is conversing?

:- Doug.