Living conversations
Wherever we see living conversations, we observe cyclical flows. Life is conversations, flows, and cycles.
:- Doug.
Archive for May, 2016
The way we’re going to survive
The way we’re going to survive as a species is to work out how to live with—not against—life. The one, the only life.
:- Doug.
Here’s how to tell:
Here’s how to tell: Even if the argument seems logical, look for its basis. A narrow circle of concern narrows us. Humans need an ever-widening embrace.
:- Doug.
Politics of selfishness good
The emergence of the politics of selfishness is good—if we become conscious of our reactions against it. If we can learn from it, not just defeat it, we can grow our species in areas like interdependence, justice, developing healthy relationships all around.
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 1603–Reaching to touch
Footprints in the Windsm # 1603
It seems more and more that simply attending this, reaching to touch, is somehow the path. Walking creates the path.
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Sustainability: vague and wimpy
Sustainability has always seemed a vague and wimpy word. How about repeatability? Can we repeat life in the next generation and the next? Livability?
:- Doug.
Why don’t we go deeper?
Why don’t we go deeper? Maybe fear: of others, of being found inadequate, of ourselves. Lack of energy: emotional, intellectual, physical. Interest: lack thereof, mismatch with the other person. Not knowing how to start. Let’s go deeper.
:- Doug.
Out of its whole surroundings
Just as an organism can only arise out of its whole surroundings, so a human can only emerge from the totality of her milieu: mother, father, their food and exercise, the sun, plants, and animals they take in, the micro organisms in their world, their parents, the water and rain. The all about is integral to us and we to the all.
:- Doug.
Stream carrying all
Conversation is the way, depth, and life—what you do with it, where you take it, is different for each and for each community. Every conversation is different: conversation is the stream carrying all. Is it more basic than what it carries? Who knows? It is always there, that’s all we know for sure for now.
:- Doug.
Conversing in touch with conversing
Healing is putting the conversing in touch with the larger conversing.
:- Doug.
Roiling kettle
We live in a seething full roiling kettle of conversation—and even the kettle is dissolving, bubbling, turning, and not defined.
:- Doug.
