How we demonstrate reverence for life:
How we demonstrate reverence for life: conversing
How we initiate change in consciousness: conversing
How we transform ourselves to more human: conversing
:- Doug.
Archive for March, 2014
Ask total strangers
Ask too much
Ask total strangers to join the conversation
To transform our community
Ask yourself to give all to what
You love as service to humanity
Ask your circle to talk life and death with you
Ask too much too much
:- Doug.
First make sure you have an art
First make sure you have an art
Then throw your art over higher and higher bars
Artists making great art (pay attention)
Care little whether they eat or sleep
All is borne in their art
All could be borne in your art
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 1409–We grow in humanness as we age
Footprints in the Windsm # 1409
We grow in humanness
as we age
and that only by way of
being softened
To become wise is to become vulnerable
the older we get the more drops away
life takes
this is the school of aging
and the work of each of us aging
the more we lose the more we grow
to accept vulnerability is the path
The living have work to do
right up to the very last breath
Please pass it on.
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Gathering butterflies to invent possibilities
I am gathering butterflies to invent possibilities. Possibilities for living-kindness. We are at the center of the universe, and gathering those centers means new worlds are sprouting with the first word of conversation. The work is through grief and imagination, knowing that the world is a combination of what confronts us and how we interpret it. We ask too much of people.
:- Doug.
We are where we need to be
We can only do small local things. But since this is the center of so many universes, our reach is great. Since major things come in small packages, we can hope. We are where we need to be doing what we need to do to have an inordinate effect.
:- Doug.
Goals fail us
Goals fail us
Goals do not create
Futures distinct from pasts
Put cushions on the rod
Rather than break it
:- Doug.
Let’s invent ways of living in the later years
Let’s invent ways of living in the later years.
:- Doug.
We begin the alternative future
The small major thing is a transformation in what we make out of what we receive from the world. This felt shift in consciousness is a choice: in the direction of humanity and life—living-kindness. The tools are invitation, question, and dissent, and the handles are grief and amazement. The arena is conversation. We begin the alternative future.
:- Doug.
Work at the center
Work at the center
with grief and imagination
convening the centers
on small major issues and opportunities
to transfom into human shape and size
how we perceive-construct
:- Doug.
By inviting the conversation, the transformation has begun
By inviting the conversation, the transformation has begun. So we are transforming our circle.
:- Doug.
Life organizes
Life organizes
Life emerges
Life coheres
Life organizes itself and
What touches it
:- Doug.
The silence before and after
The silence is part of the prayer
The silence before to wait
The silence after to absorb
:- Doug.
Roller skates on a caterpillar
You can put roller skates on a caterpillar
But don’t try to pin wings on a chrysalis
:- Doug.
