Author Archives: jimwdollar

I have posted a work in progress on my WordPress Blog, “Jim Dollar’s Published Works,” with the title, “Zen Thoughts.” An internet search should bring it up. It will sound a lot like you have heard from me already.

We are on our own when it comes to living a life worth the effort, and the older I get, the greater the effort on all levels. The compromises and trade-offs make walking to the mail box more of a chore than it once was, and just sitting in this scene and those like itContinue reading “November 17, 2025”

The right kind of silence is the one thing that will make the most difference-for-the-good-as-we-determine-good-in-our-life-over-time.Silence rights the boat that is our life. Guides the way. Grounds us in the way that is the way for us. Uncovers the truth of who we are and what we are about. Restores us our balance and harmony. ConnectsContinue reading “November 16, 2025”

There seems to be confusion regarding what the flag stands for. The Bill of Rights spells it out, but the Constitution itself is out of vogue these days. What’s with that? Who spits on the Constitution and supplants it with whatever he’s in the mood for? How did that attitude get to be President ofContinue reading “November 15, 2025”

How do we know what to do when? How can we be sure that the way we see things is the way things are? Why do we see things the way we see things? What guides our boat on its path through the sea? What makes us think that what we want is the bestContinue reading “November 14, 2025”

Prayer is communion by way of our intentionally shared presence with the source of life and being. It does not consist of words so much as the experience of being with That Which Is More Than Words Can Say, which is also That Which has always been called God. If you have been with meContinue reading “November 13, 2025”

The flow between how things are and how things need to be is the sine non qua for life in the Cosmos. When the flow is in sync between Mover and Moved, all is in harmony, balanced and at peace. At the far extreme, there is discord and division, chaos and dismay upon “the heavingContinue reading “November 12, 2025”

Peace, serenity, tranquility, silence, calmness, equanimity… offsetting the noise and dust of the world. That is the role I have claimed for myself from the beginning. Which I take to be the case with all peacemakers everywhere throughout time. It is who we are. How we are. Why we are. “Peaceful abiding, here, now.” IsContinue reading “November 11, 2025”

Energy, enthusiasm, vitality are the life force at work throughout the universe. Where do we go to experience those things? It will be different for all of us individually, yet we will naturally draw together in communities around similar experiences. Put a NASCAR venue where this pasture is and I would have been somewhere else.Continue reading “November 09, 2025”

I like the theory put forth by all of my shipmates that consciousness is the source and ground of all things everywhere. That we are the means consciousness uses to become self-conscious, that is conscious of itself. That consciousness experiences itself through our experiences. And that when we die, nothing dies, as in ceasing toContinue reading “November 08, 2025”