Human round wholeness involves/….
Human round wholeness involves
giving as well as getting
allowing as well as pursuing
silence as well as shouting in the market
accepting as well as exerting
:- Doug.
Archive for February, 2010
To respond is to sponsor, pledge, ply, enfold.
To respond is to sponsor, pledge, ply, enfold.
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 1035–A cold is sometimes a valuable thing
Footprints in the Windsm # 1035
A cold is sometimes a valuable thing to have: it frees you from thought to simply be. Here you can listen to the world go blathering by, feel the workings of your body, disencumber self from your mind.
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Gently down your day/….
Gently down your day
Finding then connecting dreams
Stories and the timid voices
Light of touch, a little sweat
Sinew comes to its high purpose
Softly, softly
:- Doug.
What’s your center?
Who are you? What’s the center of your living of your life? What happened that brought you home to that? What do you most deeply want to see the world brought to?
:- Doug.
The marks for this kind of conversation are to….
The marks for this kind of conversation are to be intimate, reflective, meeting, exploring, acting, and mattering.
:- Doug.
Conversation is for cooperating, then collaborating, then caring for each other.
Conversation is for cooperating, then collaborating, then caring for each other.
:- Doug.
Start with a bit of theory: we can’t control everything.
Start with a bit of theory: we can’t control everything.
:- Doug.
Everything is made of wholeness/….
Everything is made of wholeness
Everything matters
Everyone matters
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 1034–Competitions ought to be celebrations
Footprints in the Windsm # 1034
Competitions ought to be celebrations of our strengths of body, mind & spirit.
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The connecting stuff between us….
Lord, you are the connecting stuff between us. Moving connecting stuff.
:- Doug.
#openspace is the first time in a long time people get to….
Open space is the first time in a long time people get to share something more than what they’ve already got figured out.
:- Doug.
How did we get our projects?
How did we get our projects? Not by sitting in an audience watching, but by talking with people, turning.
:- Doug.
Balance throws us right back into the middle of our myth:
The trouble with balance is it demands of us we find and apply the right pressure on each side of the teeter-totter, on each aspect of our lives: It throws us right back into the middle of our myth that we are in control of it all.
:- Doug.
Learning from suet:
The suet in the bird feeder does its job just sitting there, turning in the wind. We humans do our jobs with more action involved, yet still we can learn from suet: do the actions without emotions (like guilt or getting frazzled) that work against the actions.
:- Doug.
The lone ranger problem:
The greatest problem we have is precisely this notion of being lone rangers out in the world. It is something the Rays highlighted in Cultural Creatives. We think we are alone, and we have not really made the effort to bring people together. We have not even thought about how to bring people together.
:- Doug.
Activists are such because they activate other people, act with others….How can we do more of what’s working?
Activists are such because they activate other people, act with others. If we continue to leave people where they are, one to each automobile, then we get no where. We get further when we come together, which is exactly what activists are doing. So why force them to sit still and be an audience? They not only have twitchy feet, but they are there to meet each other. The breaks and the hallways are at least as important as the speeches and auditoria. The question to ask is Why is this so? What is really going on? What is working? How can we do more of it?
:- Doug.
Why do we want to hold this meeting?…
Why do we want to hold this meeting? I’d guess the answer will be something like informing people of what’s going on in their community, in a big picture way in the morning and in specifics in the afternoon. But that is not what we want: Why would you want that? Here we start to dig into things like to make the community better. And why do you want that? Why and why again. Find out what people want.
:- Doug.
