June 09, 2025

Finding our niche and our schtick and our hangouts is finding ourselves. Which makes me easy to locate. I stand out like a snag on a mountain ridge. I am peculiar that way. And not particularly accessible, which is the driving idea.

On the other hand, I'm eager to talk to anyone about the things I find interesting. Why we see the way we do, for instance. How we know where we belong and where we have no business being. What guides our boat on its path through the sea. How we find our direction in life.

I think it may have been the short-lived Gnostics (I will grieve that loss forever!) who recommended letting one book open another, and people who do that naturally have a link to an inner guide who can be trusted in all matters great and small--and provides a great segue here regarding deliberately, consciously, shifting from wanting as a guide for life to knowing as the primary method of knowing what to do when, where and how.

When we live from knowing, we are at one with the inner way,
with "the beam," and nothing can knock us off it. I take that to be the authentic "Gnostic Way," which was so much of a threat to the Christian mind-controlling, top down, outside in way of directing the "life of the church," that the church felt it had to murder them all because "the Gnostic Way" was such a threat to the Church's dogmatic, self-serving, manner of directing all aspects of life and being.

Which is to say that I enjoy keeping company with those who like their own company and know what they need to be doing without being lost in a crowd doing the same things.

Knowing our Inner Knower and doing what we know needs to be done, when, where and how it needs to be done, is Taoist to the core, and flows straight from our Original Nature and our Inherent Intuition and our Innate Virtues (The things we do best and enjoy doing most). And puts us in the inner-directed loop of those who are best friends with being silent, empty and still, waiting to catch their drift of soul in order to know what's what, what that calls for and what they need to do to be a part of what's going on--from the inside out, bottom up, heart/soul led all the way.