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”
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February 07-A, 2023
Religion is solely a matter of opinion. People say they have faith in God. They have faith in their opinion of God– in their opinion of what someone says about God. All the religions have different opinions of God. Some of the people say their faith is based on the Bible. Their faith is basedContinue reading “February 07-A, 2023”
February 06-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”
February 06-A, 2023
Accommodation and acquiescence increase our chances of balance, peace and harmony. When applied in conjunction with respect for boundaries and honoring lines, they work to produce goodwill and well-being with all but the ruthless, greedy and atrocious. It takes an army to deal with Attila the Hun, Genghis Khan and those like them. Diplomacy hasContinue reading “February 06-A, 2023”
February 05-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”
February 05-A, 2023
Our response is the most important thing. What happens to us does not matter nearly as much as what we do in response to what happens to us. We make responses to every situation as it arises, and make responses to our responses, all day long, every day. If we improve the quality of thoseContinue reading “February 05-A, 2023”
February 04-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”
February 04-A, 2023
Taking something on faith is having an opinion about something with no facts or substantiating evidence to support you and believing in it anyway. Faith is an opinion with no foundation or validity. And is the ground of all religion everywhere. We have sacrificed animals, children, virgins, limbs and digits based on the opinion thatContinue reading “February 04-A, 2023”
February 03-B, 2023
We think thinking is the living end. That all it takes is explaining things in ways they can be understood. With enough of the right kind of information we all come together in complete agreement, seeing the same things in the same way, achieving peace and harmony at last. Reason, logic, analytics, calculus, methodology, andContinue reading “February 03-B, 2023”
February 03-A, 2023
We owe it to one another to listen each other to the truth of our own being here and now. In order to assist you in doing that, I’ve developed a list of questions you can modify for use in your own conversations, and ask your own follow-up questions in order to take the conversationContinue reading “February 03-A, 2023”
February 02-B, 2023
Be free to make mistakes without being bound to them, repeating them, becoming them to the point where your life is just one continuing, eternal mistake in a Karmaratic, indulgent, helplessly incapable of breaking out of the tradition kind of way declaring, “I’m nothing but a screw-up! I’ve never been anything but a screw-up! I’llContinue reading “February 02-B, 2023”
February 02-A, 2023
We are told what to believe, but no one can give us our opinions. Of course, they try, but to be genuine, opinions have to come from within. Belief from without, opinions from within. Articles of faith are opinions that take themselves seriously. And, when we don’t know what we think or believe, it’s greatContinue reading “February 02-A, 2023”
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