I start with the assumption– which is more than belief, and more on the order of perceived reality than faith in, or trust that, it may be so– that we all are always in the immediate presence of the anchor stone, the still point of the turning world, the axis mundi, the world axis, groundingContinue reading “October 14-B, 2022”
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October 14-A, 2022
In every situation there is what needs to be done and what does not need to be done. Nature appears to be particularly attuned to what needs to be done here/now. A lot of that has to do with waiting for something to nudge things along toward something else, doing that and waiting some more.Continue reading “October 14-A, 2022”
October 13-B, 2022
When Jesus told his disciples, “You must increase and I must decrease,” he was saying, “It’s all up to you, now. You each have to be like the wind that blows where it will!” There is no unified faith. No corporate conception of how things ought to be. We each have our own sense ofContinue reading “October 13-B, 2022”
October 13-A, 2022
Letting things be what they need to be, and listening, looking, watching, seeing, feeling, sensing, knowing, doing what that is is an amazing practice in and of itself. Where does thinking come in? Not very high on the list. Thinking has to do with contriving, scheming, posturing, positioning, engineering, orchestrating, devising, concocting, you know, likeContinue reading “October 13-A, 2022”
October 12-B, 2022
Our perceptions are our impressions, our understandings, our interpretations, our assumptions, our inferences, our conclusions regarding apparent aspects of reality. My perceptions of a mound of dirt near the patio of our next house on an inspection tour with the HOA president, matched his when he identified it as a fire ant bed and beganContinue reading “October 12-B, 2022”
October 12-A, 2022
Take refuge in the silence, in the stillness, in the emptiness, just breathing, just waiting, for restoration, recovery, reassurance, realization, revitalization, renewal, direction, courage, confidence, balance, harmony, stability, security, determination, and the will to go on. The silence, etc., is good for all of this and more. A day without silence is like a dayContinue reading “October 12-A, 2022”
October 11-B, 2022
We have to have a regimen, a routine, an order of the day, that we follow regularly, religiously, with fealty, liege loyalty and filial devotion. Consisting of the right kind of emptiness, stillness and silence. Mindful awareness. Integrity, sincerity and spontaneity. Balance and harmony. Spirit, energy and vitality. All of which connect us at theContinue reading “October 11-B, 2022”
October 11-A, 2022
Clarity and courage are all it takes. We can go anywhere, do anything, in the company of clarity and courage. Clarity reveals/discloses what’s what and what needs to be done about it, in response to it, and courage does it. That’s all there is to it. In each situation as it arises. All our lifeContinue reading “October 11-A, 2022”
October 10-B, 2022
There are circumstances producing consequences, and consequences creating circumstances, generating forces and momentum, opportunities and possibilities, with one thing following another, spinning off from another, becoming altogether different from anything that has ever been because it could. Anything that can happen will happen over time. And does happen. And has happened. You can think ofContinue reading “October 10-B, 2022”
October 10-A, 2022
Reconciling ourselves to the world/life/the way things are is our life-long work. It is the Sisyphean Task, and the core of the Hero’s Journey. We never complete it, we always continue it. Thinking, “Now we have done it at last,” merely sets us up for “Here it comes again!” All the stages of life areContinue reading “October 10-A, 2022”
October, 2nd Week, 2022
Nature is just what it is. Everything in the natural world is making out as best it can without rules and laws and conventions. Civilization pretends to be civil. We can trust nature to be nature, but we cannot trust civilization to be civil. Including the churches, the courts and the justice system. And whoContinue reading “October, 2nd Week, 2022”
October 09-B, 2022
There is nothing but circumstances and consequences producing, developing, creating, generating circumstances and consequences as far as the eye can see, or the mind imagine. Over time, patterns form, repeat, stabilize, appear to be permanent. Nothing is permanent but the process. Consciousness is imagination, realization, recognition, seeing patterns, making connections, shaping experience, being shaped byContinue reading “October 09-B, 2022”
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