We’re here to challenge one another
We’re here to challenge one another—how might I challenge you?
:- Doug.
Archive for October, 2015
If you cannot go back
If you cannot go back to your former self (as if life ever goes back), what kind of outcomes do you want? Do you want to concentrate on your life or your medical treatments? On your family? On your preferred activities? On things beautiful such as music and nature? On spiritual, religious, or philosophical growth? On doing some good for others?
:- Doug.
making room?
The cosmos is expanding, and for all we know, faster than the speed of light. For what are we making room?
:- Doug.
On a spherical planet
On a spherical planet, our love lines back and forth between us are bound to become a circle, an embrace, all of all.
:- Doug.
Why this demagogue attracts
Here’s why this candidate and this demagogue grates on so many and attracts so many: their egos see the world as a one-way street from them to the non-them. This is the attraction: with simplicity they will fix all those bad actors and bad things. This is their danger: they will allow for no traffic from the other direction. They will allow for no input from you. Hitler, Saddam, Putin, and these.
:- Doug.
Non-local could be ultra-local
Non-local could be ultra-local: far dispersed from the controlling center. Every point has touch points with the whole and every other, and all are influenced by all and the whole. Pinch my toe and “I” feel it. Not a question of distance, nor of control, but of propagation. Every where, when, and thing is local to every other.
:- Doug.
Then, in late years
We spend a lifetime building up a career. Then, in late years, we ourselves be ourselves. We find ourselves free. We find our selves. Sometimes it happens! Just for now!
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 1542–Hairy white against
Footprints in the Windsm # 1542
Hairy white against
blue skies nature’s brush strokes curved
straight lines? Only man
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trying to capture
Looks like I am trying to capture all that I have learned in my recent reading-thinking. I cannot capture it all!
:- Doug.
I bestow upon every one who reads these words
I bestow upon every one who reads these words
And every one who does not
The energy of the universe
Its movement, rhythm, and mass
The ability to touch beyond your skin
:- Doug.
I can progress reading
I can progress reading
an old book or a new
going to the timeless or the now
:- Doug.
The world makes sense
The world makes sense
We say “I have a good feeling about these people”
Tells us not that they are more connected with the rest of us
Rather they are more conscious we are connected
And live in that concord
Every one, every thing, ever moving
A part of each other
More energy than stuff (movement stuffing us!)
Patterns, rhythms, events of one another—one web
None of us end at our skins
Remember Walt told us we contain universes!
:- Doug.
I am my own constituent
I am my own constituent
You and I constitute one another
All we can see and more we cannot
Make up each
A puzzle, a wonder: we
:- Doug.
Christianity as it is usually
Christianity as it is usually and mostly taught is arrested development.
:- Doug.
The creator is free
The creator: is at least all this, the all there is. Does it stand outside the creation? That is not necessary. It is only necessary if we see a three-dimensional world of things and time. If we see ourselves as part of curved space-time in at least four dimensions, then the creator is free.
:- Doug.
exchange persons with other persons
We exchange persons with other persons, and the transfer out adds to us, transforms us, creates us.
:- Doug.
