Lead your inner committee into total ignorance: here you find.
Lead your inner committee into total ignorance: here you find.
:- Doug.
Archive for November, 2009
Mate / flow / embrace / ….
Mate
flow
embrace
run
eat
sleep
hide
startle
kill
eat
sleep
drink
sing
dance
love
sing
hold
together
:- Doug.
Let’s facilitate small groups taking responsibility for our deepest good.
Let’s facilitate small groups taking responsibility for our deepest good.
:- Doug.
….this is the job of the living. This is my job.
Turning the handle, clasping another’s hand, standing with grief: this is the job of the living. This is my job.
:- Doug.
….Thus as long as I am moving and looking, reading and reflecting, I will see new things for the rest of my life….
As I round a corner I see new things. Thus as long as I am moving and looking, reading and reflecting, I will see new things for the rest of my life. My view of the world must necessarily grow. Like the world itself.
It follows there is no final view of the world. But as long as we are moving in the direction of a more inclusive view of the world we progress.
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 1009: Hallowing the betweens….
Footprints in the Windsm # 1009
This deepest good is not a selfish thing—for one person, nor for a small group. It is for all those we can touch. It is hallowing the betweens. It is honoring the amongs. It is respecting what emerges from together.
Not everything we have that is good and true and beautiful comes from one person. No one person can turn the world, but we can together. No one person can get us to healthy or reduce crime or feed starving homeless people—but together we can.
Together is about farther sight and deeper insight, about hearing more and remembering better, about more hands and fingers and feet, about wider reach and closer degrees of relatedness, about wilder innovation and more practical responsibility. For getting it done, together is beyond one. Maybe because it can be One.
Please pass it on.
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I work for the reflective and engaged community.
I work for the reflective and engaged community.
:- Doug.
Open space is about connecting people for good….
Open space is about connecting people for good. That does not mean so much for ever but for action. Here we connect people for good action.
:- Doug.
I invite you / to reflect / to act / for our / deepest good /
I invite you
to reflect
to act
for our
deepest good
:- Doug.
Emergence is something perhaps both pre-existing, invited forth, and engendered….
Emergence is something perhaps both pre-existing, invited forth, and engendered. It is of the nature of life itself and may be life itself.
:- Doug.
Pay attention to the universe, the one flaring forth with lights and black holes….
Pay attention to the universe, the one flaring forth with lights and black holes, blue planets and dark energy.
:- Doug.
If I got my dream we’d see a world that takes responsibility for itself.
If I got my dream we’d see a world that takes responsibility for itself.
:- Doug.
Let us speak not the royal we, rather the universal we.
Let us speak not the royal we, rather the universal we.
:- Doug.
Could we have inspired action every day? What would it call from us?
Could we have inspired action every day? What would it call from us?
:- Doug.
Don’t encourage your children and grandchildren to dream big:
Don’t encourage your children and grandchildren to dream big: give them a bigger picture of the universe and their role in it. Let them loose. Then they will dream their own dreams.
:- Doug.
Such is the time/…/always chattering never saying/…
Such is the time
this time where we find ourselves
do we find ourselves?
at any time?
Such is the time
that it allows us to find
more than one person
whom we are among
such is the laughing time
such is the weeping time
Such is the time
for now
even eternal now
Such is our time
is time ever for a sole person?
Such is the time
fleet of foot
a short childhood
even a short adulthood
so soon grey so soon wrinkles
yet idling among us a long noon
Such is the time
do we stretch it
or us
or some other way to?
Such is the time
such are our times
fat and starving
always hearing never heard
always chattering never saying
what’s really in us
that could change our world
Such is the time
:- Doug.
Each of us is the center/… #openspace
Each of us is the center
because all of us are the center
so we can open the space
simply by opening
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 1008
Footprints in the Windsm # 1008
Giving the invitation is the first gift; continuing to give it is perhaps the larger gift.
Please pass it on.
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How can a day look pretty?
How can a day look pretty? What does that mean? It means it is favorable to the human senses, which includes the wind in our face, the sun shining off things we like to see, sharpness perhaps, and a happy feeling. So feelings and emotions are wrapped up in it. It is an observed thing, not so much an objective thing. Or is it? If you ask other people, at least from the same geographic area, a strong majority of them will agree that the day is pretty. Is there not cause to see the prettiness then as objective, out there, really existing?
:- Doug.
