a circuit of energy
Participation is a circuit of energy
whose poles
are giving and receiving
:- Doug.
Archive for October, 2015
Footprints in the Windsm # 1544–tutus all the way down
Footprints in the Windsm # 1544
Many of us know the old story: an Easterner and Westerner are talking about the foundations of the earth. The Easterner maintains that the earth is supported on the back of a large elephant. What supports the elephant? asks the Westerner. A turtle, is the reply. What supports the turtle? Another turtle; from there it is turtles all the way down.
But what few of us have heard, till now, is that the young daughter of the Westerner was listening, and told her mother the last was “tutus all the way down.”
Well now. Really: now. In quantum science, it turns out that the earth is supported not by any thing: there are after all no things, no particles always present. Rather, all shifts back and forth between energy and mass. E=mc2, remember? So the world, the universe, is one big cosmic dance.
And what better to wear to a dance than your tutu?
Please pass it on.
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Nor celebrate our differences
Nor celebrate our differences
Nor our diversity
Rather our possibility
:- Doug.
while wisdom goes on from there
To know and to know we know
is homo sapiens sapiens
to be proud of this is ego
and stops our development
while wisdom goes on from there
:- Doug.
To squeeze essence
To squeeze essence
out from a fruit
is not to have it full
only its juice
—wet and sweet
—without pulp and texture
so to say the essence of conversation
is reflection and participation
is to say something essential
and still conversation consists only in conversation
:- Doug.
Old secretaries don’t die
Old secretaries don’t die, they just file away. —Linda Jo Schlundt Germann
:- Doug.
Taking away your uncertainty
I would love to take away your certainty. And mine. The only thing that can give us life is meeting uncertainty—in one another’s face.
:- Doug.
Participating in lives
It’s more important for me as a lawyer to participate in my clients’ lives than to carry to them a message.
:- Doug.
Unfold the power of our uncertainty
We can unfold the power of our uncertainty. We have freedom to live.
:- Doug.
Be a participant in another’s life
Be a participant in another’s life. It is a higher Work than carrying a message to that one.
:- Doug.
Hold up a social mirror for us
Hold up a social mirror for us: How much respect does that show? Love? Reflection? Seeking toward understanding? Seeking for reconciliation? Are our words soft enough? Are we? Are we participating in one another’s lives or rejecting them, putting ourselves apart?
:- Doug.
Money does not make one substantial
Money does not make one substantial
Substance does not live there
:- Doug.
Telling our pain
Telling our pain
brings us truth
and reconciliation
brings us to now
opens to us hope
:- Doug.
People want to be spectators around him
People want to be spectators around him. And so they will ever be. People feed off his anger, feed their own. And so they will ever be angry—with him. Then there comes the day when they have to get to work with each other. Something must be done and they want to roll up their sleeves. And anger does not work.
:- Doug.
Let us be conservative
Let us be conservative—of energy, of our home. For humanity’s long run over eons we can generate abundance.
:- Doug.
