Author Archives: jimwdollar

wabi-sabi is the practice of finding beauty in things not quite right. We all have an Achilles heel. We are a bit off plumb. Striving for perfection only makes it worse. I don’t have what it takes to belong to the Circle of Shaman, and I am fine with that, which qualifies me for belongingContinue reading “December 19-A, 2022”

Deciding what to do is largely a matter of waiting to see what needs to be done. The natural world spends a lot of time between things, waiting. We do not have to be constantly active in the service of looking like we are doing something to avoid being thought of as lazy. We canContinue reading “December 18-A, 2022”

We cannot think about transcendence. We cannot talk about it. We can only experience it– without attempting to say what we experienced. Without saying anything about it. Leading Heinrich Zimmer to observe, “The best things cannot be said, the second-best things create confusion (By trying to discuss/explain the best things), leaving us to talk aboutContinue reading “December 17-A, 2022”

The Transcendent is called “transcendent” because it transcends all categories of rational/logical/analytical thought. Sheldon Kopp captured the essence of transcendence when he said, “Some things can be experienced, but not understood, and some things can be understood, but not explained.” We can distance ourselves from the experience of transcendence in 10,000 ways, that can beContinue reading “December 16-A, 2022”