Goals are theories: set up to see if they can be disproved.
Goals are theories: set up to see if they can be disproved.
:- Doug.
Archive for August, 2009
Footprints in the Windsm # 981
Footprints in the Windsm # 981
What is the most important thing we can do right here and right now to make life better?
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We need to deliberately insert snippets of the code of life into places which need it most.
We need to deliberately insert snippets of the code of life into places which need it most.
:- Doug.
…We generates me. Not the other way round.
We only become real and only become living when we meet the others round about. We generates me. Not the other way round.
:- Doug.
Togethering is not simply throwing people into a pot, but placing them; art of inviting…
Togethering is what goes on when we meet and when we converse. It is not simply throwing people into a pot, but placing them, inviting them in such a way that they support the life of each other and of the whole.
Which speaks to the importance of the invitation, the living question, for this is a center itself and it serves to start to bring the whole into focus. It forms the first vague inchoate hints of the living center: it is the implicate enfolded whole that wants for unfolding.
So the How is somehow addressed by making beautiful wonderful questions. These questions can be, and often will best be, in the form of wonderful stories: stories of heartache and tears and laughter; stories of microcosm touching macrocosm.
:- Doug.
Emergence is a process of life—it flows from life and life flows from it.
Emergence is a process of life—it flows from life and life flows from it.
:- Doug.
How do we choose to engender living process in humanity?
How do we choose to engender living process in humanity?
:- Doug.
Togethering: the process of the future of life.
Togethering: the process of the future of life.
:- Doug.
Life is in the coming together. No where else.
Life is in the coming together. No where else.
:- Doug.
Togethering is three:
Togethering is three:
—Each center supports the whole
—Each center supports the other centers
—& each center receives support
In this, each center disappears & and is made more special
Supporting engenders, intensifies, and concresces life
This pattern process is the source of the magic in togethering
:- Doug.
“The magic is in the middle”/Because the middle is togethering
“The magic is in the middle”
Because the middle is togethering
:- Doug.
All important meetings have a beginning, a muddle, and an end. The difference between those which accomplish something worthwhile and…
All important meetings have a beginning, a muddle, and an end. The difference between those which accomplish something worthwhile and those which don’t is a function of how well they work through and out of the muddle: did they cut it short? Did they choose the easy way out? Did they use only brute force? Did they stay with it until they experienced breakthrough? Did they allow something new to emerge from nowhere and everywhere? Failure might as much be making some huge ugly building as in doing nothing. Good might be as much in doing nothing as in feeding hungry children. How well did we muddle?
:- Doug.
Utility and supporting life are related: if something does not support life, it will…
Utility and supporting life are related: if something does not support life, it will not be used, or will not be used as much—hence it is of lower utility.
:- Doug.
What is the work that needs doing in this world?
What is the work that needs doing in this world?
:- Doug.
What can we do to make this a better world? What is a better world? One in which we together. Simply that. In all its plaited simplicity.
What can we do to make this a better world? What is a better world? One in which we together. Simply that. In all its plaited simplicity.
:- Doug.
Calling people out to play is central: togethering is key, fun is the soup were toasted in…
Calling people out to play is central: togethering is key, fun is the soup were toasted in. Yes, a mixed metaphor: but it kept coming up. We’re stirring that soup by jumping in and frolicking.
:- Doug.
My work is playing: inviting people out to play with life in death and nursing homes.
My work is playing: inviting people out to play with life in death and nursing homes.
:- Doug.
Playing is not for the playing but for the together
Playing is not for the playing but for the together.
:- Doug.
If we want complexity to work for us (NB: to work for life), we must work toward a complex simplicity—an interweaving of…
If we want complexity to work for us (NB: to work for life), we must work toward a complex simplicity—an interweaving of simplicity—see, the flames of a fire—nothing extra, just what is needed—for life.
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 980
Footprints in the Windsm # 980
Whenever you set out to do something, that’s when adventure ensues. Recipe for adventure: set out to do something in the larger world; meet someone along the way.
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