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Diving in
is meeting is
diving in

:- Doug.

My friend
is larger than
I imagine

:- Doug.

For this fishing
throw in the inviting
then your self and soul

:- Doug.

Every speck blown
upon the wind
touches the larger

:- Doug.

Holding back is head function
left brain, executive operation
sometimes it is on overdrive, runs amok

:- Doug.

Out there touches down here
the whole infuses the part
seeing the larger changes life
lived down here in the parts
news to use—please so choose

:- Doug.

Are we God? We are divine. John says when we meet face to face we shall see that we are the same. We should not arrogate that position to ourselves. That does not answer the question, for hubris and truth can use the same words. Some of the problem may be our mechanistic habits of thinking, where we see everything constructed of smaller parts: thus we shrink from saying God arises or emerges from humans. But other pictures are possible, some go the opposite direction: the parts derive from the whole. This sounds like Judeo-Christian genesis. So we might see humanity as the whole, the one, God, from which we are holographic shards, fractal. This generates then, as God does humanity, the picture that we together are God. Generated simultaneously together, God and creation? Cannot have one without the other? Other pictures are possible.

:- Doug.

Many times we hear that God does not sleep, and then today I read in John of the Cross that God sleeps in our souls, awakening at times and in degrees. We tend to “blame” the sleeping on us rather than God. Yet mentally I question this. If we are part of God and God of us, of the same gist, the one, and if indeed God is enfolded and unfolding, implicating and explicating, then as we sleep and wake so does God. As we unfold, wrinkle, rip, so God.

:- Doug.

Christianity as usually practiced
free enterprise as usually practiced
burdens enslaves
But at whom shake our fist?
no one can shackle your imagination
without your permission
and active collusion

:- Doug.

Copyright encourages resting
Humanity encourages creating

:- Doug.

No property, no thieves

:- Doug.

Clouds are always busy
Scooting here pulling the winds along
Blanketing the cold
Watering the parched
Nurturing microscopic critters
Calling all colors around sunlight
Silently morphing our imaginings

:- Doug.

Here Heaven is
Now God walks among us
Here is your street
Now pave it with gold
Now do Here be

:- Doug.

The way we turn the cloth
Even rip it
Is the unfolding

:- Doug.

Don’t expand your area of influence
Saturate, soak in

:- Doug.

It cannot be elsewhere
Larger can only be here

:- Doug.

Don’t try to go somewhere
You’re already here

:- Doug.

I feel I should be expressing this to others, but words fail, I shrink. Paul did not shrink, Gautama did not, Jesus did not. But how many have and do live out their lives doing the quiet things? The nameless monks and nuns in their cells, who make the still center around which the world spins?

:- Doug.

Do we live as consciously in the larger as we are able? If not, is there something to do about it?

:- Doug.

The news I can use is that the larger is here not just in large and significant things but in the smaller, everyday moments and tasks. Recognize, recognize!

:- Doug.

Some of these kept coming so that I was not able to get to sleep!

:- Doug.

In numbers
No thrumpa thrumpa

:- Doug.

Life has more small things
than large
the large perhaps expressed
in the small

:- Doug.