Author Archives: jimwdollar

We come with the tools required to do our work: Our original/essential nature, the innate virtues/traits/characteristics that are ours from conception, our perceptions, perspective, judgment, courage, heart/soul, mind/intelligence, art/creativity/imagination, seeing/hearing/understanding/ knowing/doing/being. We lose connections with these aspects of ourselves in the churning chaos of aspiration, ambition, desire, fear, anxiety, jealousy, incentive, intention, aims, purpose, drivesContinue reading “January 05-C, 2023”

The day has a mind of its own. Give yourself to the day, trust yourself to the day, and to the emptiness, stillness and silence that await the day and its peculiar alignment of conditions and circumstances which set it apart from every other day, making it unique, special, one-of-a-kind, though it might look onContinue reading “January 05-B, 2023”

Today is the first day of my 79th year. I hope to be more settled into who I am this year, more still, more empty, more silent, with less at stake in what is going on. More balanced and harmonious, less anxious and uncertain. More stable and flexible, less stressed and fearful. More content withContinue reading “January 05-A, 2023”

The conditions and circumstances of our life impose themselves upon us against our will and require us to make concessions and accommodations appropriate to the occasion from birth to death. The water that falls in my backyard flows roughly from south to north. The water that falls in my front yard flows roughly from northContinue reading “January 04-B, 2023”

Everyone wants to be “happy.” No one knows what that means. It means engaging consciously/mindfully in the process of maturation, seeing what’s what, rising to the occasion and doing what needs to be done about it, day-in-and-day-out, for no reason other than because it needs to be done. And doing that with the proper frameContinue reading “January 03-B, 2023”

We don’t seem to have what it takes, consistently, dependably, reliably, to do what needs to be done, when, and where, and how it needs to be done. When it happens, it is a marvel. It is a pity that it doesn’t happen all of the time. We could transform the world just by doingContinue reading “January 02-C, 2023”

Everything is grist for the mill– and we are milling ourselves on the way which is the Way, and the only way, from Eden to Gethsemane. Everything is food for the journey, leading us– if we let it– to the truth of who we are and how things are with us– and what’s what, andContinue reading “January 02-B, 2023”