connect the particular with the absolute
Humans connect the particular with the absolute. We are as at home in the numbers and Dollars and athletics as in the soaring spirit. Include and embrace!
:- Doug.
Archive for January, 2015
We think we are free and we are not
We think we are free and we are not. True freedom is not of the movement of our feet, hands, and mouth but of the infinite within.
:- Doug.
something from habit
When we do or say something from habit, it is a clue we are not thinking.
:- Doug.
Picture an asterisk
Picture an asterisk, sitting with the rays a few degrees off the cardinal points. One continuum moves from Individual to Collective, the next from Larger to Particular, another from Things to Flow. This is our matrix, the lap in which we act, think and rest. Our rays spread light in all directions; we connect them.
:- Doug.
one with that fish
This is one universe. Therefore you are in some way one with that tree, I am in some way part of that fish and it part of me, and we are in some way related to stars, quarks, and dark matter. Let us look for the ways.
:- Doug.
the ones we love and loathe
We are all one, with the ones we love, with the ones we loathe, with the ones who loathe us. Science and psychology, chemistry and politics, religion and biology: all one.
:- Doug.
integral soundlessness
Others are as integral as any of us are. Not our sect is integral but yours is not. We are all necessary. Even 4-footed, finned, no legged, rooted, and all the rest. Planets and stars, winds and light, darkness and soundlessness.
:- Doug.
these are foundational to family flourishing
Let’s attend the quality of our being and of our inter-relating. These are foundational to our family flourishing.
:- Doug.
more effective in our family?
How can we become more effective in our family inter-relating on behalf of our elders—and our family as a whole?
:- Doug.
centrality of patterns: it is more subtle
There is a centrality of patterns of betweens and connections and wholes. The whole seems to build the patterns, emerging new patterns.
So what we are to do is to be within the patterns, work with the patterns, help affect the patterns. That is overstating it: it is more subtle. More interconnected.
:- Doug.
A third choice
Most people think that their only choices when facing a “nothing more we can do” declaration are 1. do everything; 2. Give up. A third choice is to make each day good, as good as we can.
:- Doug.
