Monthly Archives: August 2016
Wisdom may be here
Rather than the meaning or the teaching wisdom may be in seeing and asking :- Doug.
What do you admire about older people?
What do you notice about older people, particularly those you admire? What’s this say about wisdom? About you? About your brand of wisdom? :- Doug.
What’s this moving say of wisdom?
Move from 1. What’s in it for me? to 2. What’s it mean? to 3. What’s it? (Just being fully present.) So what’s this say of wisdom? :- Doug.
Pay attention to dreams
Pay attention to dreams—particularly those just before waking—that’s your noticing part talking to you (maybe sometimes your wiser part—in any event a part of you speaking to you). Attention must be paid. :- Doug.
Pay attention to dawn thoughts
Pay attention to dawn thoughts. :- Doug.
Retired people are easy to talk with
My father-in-law used to say retired people are easy to talk with—they have nothing to prove. Perhaps this means no ego. :- Doug.
Conversation of love
As an elder what I have to teach is conversation of love :- Doug.
Wisdom has dimensions
Wisdom has dimensions Knowledge cannot compass :- Doug.
Our wisdom:
Our wisdom: less we have it more it has us less we seek it more it finds us :- Doug.
Our blessing
Elders have a profound value to give: our blessing. Sometimes it is sought without the person knowing what they seek. We can give it in non overt easy to take ways: you are seeing more here than meets the eye: … Continue reading
Elders exploring?
What are the aspects and sources of wisdom for elders to explore? :- Doug.
Work of our lives?
What is the work of our lives, now? :- Doug.
Serious questions?
What are the serious questions we need to be asking at this age? :- Doug.
Homework: forgiveness
Homework: For what do I wish forgiveness, of what am I ashamed, what do I wish I’d done differently? Write a dialogue with the persons most affected—ask and give forgiveness. What could you possibly amend now, whom could you approach? … Continue reading
Dialogue with your body
Dialogue with your body—what it feels, needs, how to improve its quality of life, how to best use its energy. :- Doug.