Author Archives: jimwdollar

The natural world fluctuates around a “happy medium,” or “a bell-shaped curve” where daily things are mostly what they “always have been and what they will be.” Carl Jung said, “We are who we always have been and who we will be.” We belong to the natural world and are as it is, preferring stability,Continue reading “December 19, 2025”

Doing what is called for in each situation as it arises, when, where and how it is called for, is all the is asked of us, and constitutes the flow of life and being. It is the way tennis players play the game, the way dancers dance and the way singers sing, hitting the rightContinue reading “December 18, 2025”

Let the sentinels who keep watchtake no rest nor allow him to restuntil he has remembered his promisesand returns to make us the boast of the earth! Misplaced allegiances lead to a lot of grim realizations, no?Leading to Now what? Where do we go from here?The Silence is always with us.We could go there andContinue reading “December 17, 2025”

I have just published on my “Jim Dollar’s Published Works” blog on Word Press, “Three Points on Prayer” as an excerpt from my eBook, A Handbook for the Spiritual Journey II, available from Amazon Kindle with an internet search for “Jim Dollar Kindle.”

Jesus died at the hands of The Establishment embodied in the High Priest Joseph Caiaphas who saw Jesus as an enemy of the High Priestly way of doing things. The Buddha died from eating poorly cooked pork (How enlightened was that?). Both Buddha and Jesus were living their life as they thought their life neededContinue reading “December 15, 2025”

Finding and living out of our center, our core, our foundation is the essence of integrity and the guiding principle of our life. Is it Me, or is it Not-me? In what ways does this represent, reveal, exhibit, express who I am and aspire to be? In what ways does this deny, conceal, misrepresent whoContinue reading “December 14, 2025”

I understand my role to be in the world as a witness–to see, hear, understand, know, what’s what, what’s happening, what is called for, and what is to be done about it, here, now, and to do it, when, where and how it needs to be done, in each situation as it arises, all myContinue reading “December 12, 2025”

The solution to being perennially happy is to stop wanting things to be different than they are. Or, better, to stop wanting. What did wanting ever do for us anyway? When we come out of the womb, we have everything we need to find what we need to do what needs to be done. WhatContinue reading “December 10, 2025”