Does the world hear
Does the world hear yet? Do we hear? All?
:- Doug.
Does the world hear yet? Do we hear? All?
:- Doug.
I see that you bring, say, your corporation-mind and I bring my creativity and human-seeking mind; I am not hear to fight you but to help form you so that corporations everywhere can get more creative and human.
Our response-ability is to listen, and hear, for sure, but also to evolve the species.
:- Doug.
More than answer mine
Your comments tell me
Who you are and
How you think and
How we might touch
:- Doug.
Since we create a person in meeting, what then is our responsibility?
:- Doug.
Such anger!
Such mien!
Anger—a cage—
Holds us back
From touching
Living
:- Doug.
“In the present lies hidden what can become.” (Maurice Friedman in Martin Buber, The Knowledge of Man, p 39) We therefore have an opening secret which we want to become known: people have potential, and much of it is in the between.
:- Doug.
We are more about the
Emergence
of Persons
Than doings
For doings end
Ever Persons
Can do
From what submergence
Emerge?
Bending the knee
Breaking the back
Saving & spending
Getting & hoarding
Yawning
To what air
Does Person emerge?
Standing over against
This world
Meeting
Demanding
Its best
:- Doug.
We are up-tight
We don’t know how to converse
About matters at
Our core
We are scared
We fear
We may be found out
Our beliefs exposed
Still: here it is we are strongest
Most alive
In our vulnerability
In us
:- Doug.
Some of us write novels
Some of us write poems
Some of us write how-to
Some of us read
Some of us converse
The highest of these is
Intercourse
:- Doug.
When we move to touching each other and relating, then we have a motivating vision, for it moves us outside of ourselves. Motivation inward leads only to rot; motivation outward leads to growth.
:- Doug.
Who are you, friend?
Who are you? Friend.
I meet—I am—you all—
:- Doug.
Person-izing G*d can lead us astray; personalizing G*d is true. G*d: as wide as the East; as personal as the West.
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 834
We yet might touch our hope if—
If we stand upon our heart
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This is why I need other people. A small metaphor of G*d living inside my head is not enough (a reason is that our thoughts eddy in their accustomed pools, do not allow us out); G*d truly meets us in intercourse with other people, and not just through them. We are that of G*d. Our meeting is that of G*d. We are living in Heaven. We have all challenges-opportunities-demonics-divinity. It is our task to make all work together for good, and it is this that is of G*d.
:- Doug.
Martin Buber suggests that relation has these things: mutual confirmation; cooperation; genuine dialogue. These help me understand what I am working on: mutual confirmation of which hearing is key; working together; genuine dialogue—which suggests to me that we have so narrowed the words conversation, intercourse, and relation, that we miss the larger world that is possible.
:- Doug.
Seek to see others not as other but as others, to put a human face on the world, the masses, our challenge-opportunities. We are the ones we seek, not the problems. This perhaps (!) is Heaven. We are to seek each other out, not wall ourselves away from each other. We are real; our mind-made clutchings are crazy-making.
:- Doug.
Butterfly this world
Open it up—
Give its peoples wing—
Give it wing—
To fly among—
:- Doug.
In guardianships
In immigration
In what we assume is
Doing good
Or fighting evil
In life entire
Seek out
Others rather than other
Seek no objects to act upon—
More humanly—
Make relation know persons—
:- Doug.
I like this kind of writing, catching phrases catching life breaking open words and person seeing hearing touching tasting smelling who might be we
No period
No terminus we go on for ever for ever we are needed
Needful are we does this mean we have needs or are needed to fulfill others yes of course
:- Doug.
G* is not my creator
—That’s a human construct
And for me much too—
:- Doug.
G*d is the intention of the universe. Intention always moves toward pattern & pattern is always in relation to, that is, toward the rest. Pattern is the definition of love.
:- Doug.
G-d is beyond
Our metaphors
A living, breathing
Now and Hear
:- Doug.
To free the Expanse of the voiceless—there is something that we need to hear to make the world whole—all that it can be. We are inserted into a growing world, not a fixed one. Fixed is dying. Live is growing.
Why is it urgent? Simply because people are dying and suffering and we can with an ear—a word heard—make it wholer. Simply because we are missing opportunities to make the present and the future fuller for us all.
:- Doug.