As hearing is beyond listening, so is….
As hearing is beyond listening, so is conversation beyond discussion, and meeting beyond meetings.
:- Doug.
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As hearing is beyond listening, so is conversation beyond discussion, and meeting beyond meetings.
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 1053
More important to life
than order
is not justice and compassion?
More seriously for life
than consuming
ought we to take brother and sister?
Is not life
to care to suffer to die to feel?
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What is this poetry I am seeing? It may be metaphor. It may be seeing ourselves larger. It may be calling us to our larger selves, out beyond ourselves. It may be calling us to our mysteries, such as of birth—out beyond where we know, which means out beyond where we have control. It may be calling us to our true Selves. It is likely all of these things.
If I wanted to distill them further, I would call it the mystery of our true Selves.
:- Doug.
It’s a threshold once we crossed
But never crossed
This we seek
:- Doug.
Once, twice, I saw the others
Not through my eyes but theirs
Not through my heart but theirs
Not through my being but theirs
Now we move within the truth of us
:- Doug.