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February 20-A, 2023

Changing the way we respond to things and think about things, would improve our life on a lot of levels. Thinking differently alleviates much of what ails us. How would you go about thinking differently? There is the what and the how. We could change what we think about, or we could change how weContinue reading “February 20-A, 2023”

February 19-B, 2023

The Guardians and Guides must be recognized, honored and trusted without being assumed and taken for granted. We all “get by with a little help from our friends,” our friends being the invisible forces/hands at work in our life, leading, directing, protecting, defending us against the forces of greed and ignorance that would lead usContinue reading “February 19-B, 2023”

February 19-A, 2023

We have opinions that shut us off from our life. We do not live objectively, open-mindedly, mindfully aware of what is going on within us and around us. We are blind to the realities in control of what we do and do not. Our nighttime dreams try to get through to us. Our slips ofContinue reading “February 19-A, 2023”

February 18-B, 2023

Everything I write is a George Carlin routine. When you get to the end of your rope, you have to change your mind about what is important. It’s all about being right about what’s important. All of our problems stem from being wrong about what’s important. We will know when we are wrong about what’sContinue reading “February 18-B, 2023”

February 18-A, 2023

The First Noble Truth of Buddhism is “All life is suffering.” I say, “Stop right there! Suffering is a frame of mind! A way of seeing! A way of evaluating what you are looking at! An opinion! “All life is an opinion! The way to be free of suffering is to change your mind aboutContinue reading “February 18-A, 2023”

February 17-B, 2023

All this striving to get, to have, to do, to be! There is nothing like it anywhere in the world of nature. We want things we have no business having. That makes us like the dragons of lore, collecting and hording treasures of gold and silver, diamonds and pearls, sapphire and jade… Things they haveContinue reading “February 17-B, 2023”

February 17-A, 2023

The two guides for the way that cannot be discerned as the way by any rational way of discernment are affinity and resonation. If you have an affinity for something, if something resonates with you, go that way. If it is all chest tightening, stomach churning, mouth drying, and/or neck bristling, and if our heartContinue reading “February 17-A, 2023”

February 16-C, 2023

It is a matter of opinion all the way down. Everything reflects opinion. Everything runs on opinion. War is the final solution regarding whose opinion rules (And, since opinion never goes away, war never ends). All religion everywhere throughout time is founded on opinion. One person’s faith is that person’s opinion of what ought toContinue reading “February 16-C, 2023”

February 16-B, 2023

We come packed with emotions and have to figure out what to do with them on our own. We could use better coaching early on. Coaching with balance and harmony in mind, with very little emphasis on, or interest in, having our way. Living with emotions swirling around and flowing from having our way allContinue reading “February 16-B, 2023”

February 16-A, 2023

Being open to, aware of, engaged with what is called for in each situation as it arises, positions us to be free of opinions, motives, expectations, desires, will, plans, agendas beyond the simple service of what needs to happen here/now in light of the circumstances that form and shape the moment, letting that carry usContinue reading “February 16-A, 2023”

February 15-B, 2023

Is it courage and confidence, or arrogance and artifice, that motivates us, drives us, calls us forth, makes us known? We can fool ourselves, and operate from misplaced motives and unworthy ends. But at the center, we are who we are. Living from the center brings everything else into basrelief, a sculpture that reveals theContinue reading “February 15-B, 2023”

February 15-A, 2023

We live out our lives, maintaining our relationships, and rising to meet the occasion as best we can, doing what needs to be done, when, where and how it needs to be done, enjoying what is to be enjoyed, grieving what must be grieved, “sunrise, sunset,” day by day, and letting that be that. FewContinue reading “February 15-A, 2023”