If each circle were of gold
If each circle were of gold, which would you want? The smallest is you; the next is your family, brothers; then people like you; then all people; then all life; then all. Choose. Open.
:- Doug.
Archive for August, 2007
There is a progression
There is a progression of responsibility we can feel—self, family, company, community, people like me, nation, planet. Where are most people in our country? Where are you?
:- Doug.
cold clear water
The vision is that everybody has a well from which they can dip to get some cold, clear water.
What does the cold, clear water mean for your people? My interest is how we find our connecting points—our common aquifer—to help the world work for all?
:- Doug.
leading to action
We need to be about inviting social entrepreneurs into meaningful conversations leading to action.
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Wind sm # 789
Footprints in the Windsm # 789
It’s not a question of what’s fair; it’s a question of anyway. It’s never fair when someone does evil unspeakable things; but you forgive them anyway. It’s not fair when life sets you back on your heels; you simply find your direction from here anyway. Not what’s fair but anyway.
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Go on for ever?
“Don’t you wish it’d go on forever?”
No, we think it will!
What if you only have
Three years to make your contribution?
:- Doug.
Outside a tapestry
Outside a tapestry
threads alone mean nothing
patterns come into being together
There are things we know together
though no one person knows
even after the meeting ends
Some only the meeting knows
together we can work on those
rhythm color meaning doing
:- Doug.
Fundamentalism is a disease
Fundamentalism is a disease. The harm done is at its root: by attending only to the basics, it prevents growth; it denies the Creator the right to continue creating.
:- Doug.
soft edges
Who can tell where she leaves off
and he begins
draw the line between
lover & beloved
running to you to me
divinity has soft edges
:- Doug.
truth beneath truth
Nor the words
nor the stories
nor the concepts
open for
truth beneath the truth
:- Doug.
Where the magic is
The magic is not in you alone
nor me alone
nor G*d alone
the magic is in the mixture
:- Doug.
The middle is a little like this:
The middle is a little like this:
I have the skate, you have the key
and a little like this:
I have the hydrogen, you have the oxygen
together we both get—wet!
and this:
there are things we cannot know—alone
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Wind sm # 788
Footprints in the Windsm # 788
Be an inviter of deep conversations, interested in how we connect questions, stories, and conversations to make our world work for all.
Conversation moves us to action, so what actions matter? Who is all? How big can you stretch your idea of all? What is your story? What stories have you heard that we should hear? What are your live questions?
Please pass it on.
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No enemy after engaging
We will continue to see the world and those in it as our enemy until we engage with.
:- Doug.
Communion of consciousness
There are those who say consciousness creates all we see. But what I see shows me a world created by many in communion of consciousness.
:- Doug.
the right choices
If people know what the choices are, they will make the right choices 98% of the time. Evil is not 50% of the world. Some need to fight for what is right and new but so must a chick struggle out of its shell into the world.
:- Doug.
To get to 100% we have to get to 100%
To get to 100% we have to get to 100%. All have to be invited. No one excluded. No one excepted because “She wouldn’t be interested.” No one not invited because he is too intimidating. To get to 100% we have to invite 100%. Whole-heartedly.
:- Doug.
Of course, we cannot change people
Of course, we cannot change people. People change themselves. We change ourselves. We change others by interacting with them, not by imposing ourselves on them, rather by exposing our most intimate selves to them. We change others by exchanging our stories, our truths. If you keep the argument at the level of concepts, you will keep the argument. If you move to the level of personal essence, then we stand a chance. We.
:- Doug.
