04 Consistency, reliability, dependability… Can we maintain our connection with the center? Can we remain on the path? Can we retain our focus amid the Clashing Rocks on the Heaving Waves of the Wine Dark Sea? It is one thing to grasp the truth of what is needed in the silence of circumstances that areContinue reading “September 29, 2020”
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September 28, 2020
04 I would like to sit down one-on-one with everybody, and hear what they had to say. I think that is all anybody needs. Someone to hear what they have to say. Everybody wants to tell people what they need to hear. Nobody wants to hear what people have to say. I would like toContinue reading “September 28, 2020”
September 27, 2020
02 Jon Kabat-Zinn (And if you haven’t watched his YouTube Videos on Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction– the shortest ones first– what exactly are you waiting for?) said that mindfulness and meditation are like riding a bicycle. When you are learning to ride a bicycle, you think about riding the bicycle. When you learn to rideContinue reading “September 27, 2020”
September 26, 2020
01 We have to believe in the things that keep us going. That is the true test of our faith. Can it–does it–will it–keep us going? We go in the service of what we believe in. People who have lost their faith go mostly to bars and opioids. The surest way to not lose ourContinue reading “September 26, 2020”
September 25, 2020
02 Maintaining our focus, remaining centered, balanced, in harmonious accord with the Tao is all there is to it. Only fear, desire and duty stand in our way. And the dust of the world. And the 10,000 things. It is amazing that we can even consider focus, centering, balance and harmony. And it is notContinue reading “September 25, 2020”
September 24, 2020
02 Ambition, incentive, aspiration are all over-hyped. Who knows what to want? Who wants what should be wanted? Who can be forced to want what they ought to want? So, you spend your life in the service of things that don’t matter, thinking they matter, working for prestige, status and stature, dry as desert dustContinue reading “September 24, 2020”
September 23, 2020
02 If we are going to take anything on faith, let it be the actuality of the Unknown Knower within! Take the Psyche we are unconscious of on faith! And work to develop a relationship with her– a relationship of mutual respect, dependence, and collaboration– throughout the remainder of the time left for living! ConsiderContinue reading “September 23, 2020”
September 22, 2020
03 To eyes that see, ears that hear, and hearts that understand, our fate provides us with exactly what we need to fulfill our destiny. Joseph Campbell said, “Love your enemies and what you hate most about your life because they are instruments of your destiny.” We are pulled forth, against our will, and thrustContinue reading “September 22, 2020”
September 21, 2020
02 I am sure you have noticed by now that everything we want comes with something we don’t want attached. There is no escaping it, no denying it, which leaves us with accepting it, and letting it be because it is. There is nothing wrong anywhere in our life that growing up some more againContinue reading “September 21, 2020”
September 20, 2020
04 The fulcrum–the pivot point–from past to future is to live with nothing at stake in the outcome. Giving our best to the moment with nothing to gain and nothing to lose, intent only on honoring the situation as it unfolds around us by responding to what is called for with the gifts we haveContinue reading “September 20, 2020”
September 19, 2020
01 What is the nature of your pain? What are you doing with your life? I think one contributes to, flows from, the other. Our pain forms our life, our life shapes our pain. We exist at the mercy of the two, or as the meeting place of the two, or as a collaborative partnerContinue reading “September 19, 2020”
September 18, 2020
03 Our work is to respond appropriately to what is called for in each situation as it arises. Each situation calls for something. How we respond to that call makes all the difference. When we are more concerned with what we are asking for from the situation than with what the situation is asking forContinue reading “September 18, 2020”
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