Author Archives: jimwdollar

It’s all practice! Why don’t we have it down? We get up each day as though it is the first day– as though we have learned nothing through all of the other days. We pursue the same ends using the same means in the same ways. We think it is just a matter of tryingContinue reading “February 09-B, 2023”

Living out of our own center, like a gyroscope maintaining its balance through all situations and circumstances, stable and unperturbed regardless of the conditions within which we must live, is out of the question for most of us all of the time. We have to have things our way. Yet, we all are capable ofContinue reading “February 08-B, 2023”

How do you strive to live your life? How do you think your life should be lived? What guides you through each day? My fundamental orientation flows from my original/essential nature. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator dependably places me as an INF/TP, which favors Introversion, Intuition, Feeling, Thinking, Perceiving. Creativity/adventure/innovation/inquiry/ exploration/curiosity/asking/seeking/ searching… also play a bigContinue reading “February 07-B, 2023”

Carl Jung had Philemon, I have Jake, as an alter-ego/ever-present companion/guide. My role is to get out of the way with my plans/agendas/goals/expectations/ knowledge/desires/timetables/wishes/wants/etc. and let Jake do it what/when/where/how it needs to be done. “IT” is like grass growing, flowers blooming, fruit ripening, chicks hatching, birds migrating, the tide coming and going… Everything inContinue reading “February 06-B, 2023”

The search for the Holy Grail is the search for the enlivening elixir that will restore life to the land– to the wasteland– to the land of inauthenticy, the land of sterility, the land of pretension, duplicity, deception and lie. Joseph Campbell describes the wasteland as “A land of people who do simply what theyContinue reading “February 05-B, 2023”

God doesn’t play favorites. Doesn’t have favorites. From the beginning until now, God’s Chosen people don’t come off any better than the reprobates and scoundrels. Even the Bible is straightforward about it: “Time and chance happen to us all.” “It rains on the just and the unjust alike.” But we seek the advantage above allContinue reading “February 04-B, 2023”