Monthly Archives: September 2016
attending aging and wisdom
As we move from middle age to elderhood it is possible something will emerge. A new phase, completely unexpected and unpredictable. Like water to ice, hydrogen and oxygen to wet, caterpillar to butterfly. If we look, we may hear: synesthesia. … Continue reading
Questions of wisdom?
What questions do you have about wisdom? :- Doug.
Is it possible?
Is it possible for the self to be completed? :- Doug.
The tragedies of your life?
What have been the tragedies in your life? List 5, converse, tell the stories. :- Doug.
the progress of the centuries?
There is one life: what are you adding to the progress of the centuries? :- Doug.
What changed in you?
What changes in recent years do you notice about yourself? :- Doug.
What is difficult about wisdom?
What is difficult about wisdom? What challenges you? Are you wise? :- Doug.
On not reaching the finish line
We might not even reach the finish line at our death. Our task might extend into someone else’s life, or beyond that. How does that expand our horizons? What might we? :- Doug.
We become next
We become next what we attend now if wisdom, wise :- Doug.
“Your days on earth may be long”
“So that your days on earth may be long” ahh, to luxuriate in a long summer’s day! or winter’s! Like a child to watch the clouds or like a child watching the clock awaiting the bell do we now ever … Continue reading
Touching longer
What if in each development of life, we open the doors of perception most relevant now? So in child-rearing time we see what is good for the children, good for earning keep for them. In old age we see the … Continue reading
This child
This child senses the livingness of all he meets it fills him with wonder at the magic of it all and us at the gleam in his eyes :- Doug.
First principle:
First principle: What you know beyond knowing is significant. Second principle: That you communicate it is more important. Third principle: It is not communicated until said with loving-kindness. :- Doug.
Less than that–and more
It’s not a question of what you are meant to do in this lifetime, rather what you are meant to do in this lifetime next. Next: not a whole lifetime: less than that—and more. :- Doug.
Rethink the world
To embrace one’s vision—be it feelings, thoughts, spiritual insights, or all these—is to rethink the world. To ask others—the world—to do so is to raise terrors of an existential order. Can we thus diversify and enrich humanity? :- Doug.
Not dementia: wisdom
Maybe it’s not dementia, eccentricity, quirks: maybe she or he is working on wisdom: completing, ripening, maturing. :- Doug.