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September 28-B, 2022

We live to find the still point, the safe harbor, of balance and harmony. The catch is that there are no steady states of life and being. Now we have it, now we don’t. Controlling the wobbles will have to do. Emptiness, stillness and silence can help with that. Reducing noise and complexity. Diminishing vulnerabilityContinue reading “September 28-B, 2022”

September 28-A, 2022

We don’t have enough wonderful in our life. We ought to make it our business to increase the Wonderful Quotient in each week. It may be too much to ask of each day, but adding wonderful to each week ought to be a doable task. We owe it to ourselves to make the effort. JustContinue reading “September 28-A, 2022”

September 27-C, 2022

Enlightenment is not a matter of thinking anything up, but of realizing what just occurred to us and connecting that with how we have always been told things are by those who know and are right about it. Who cannot tell us anything we don’t know when we know what we know. Which is toContinue reading “September 27-C, 2022”

September 27-B, 2022

Listen to your nighttime dreams. All of our nighttime dreams are saying “This is the way it is with you and your life presently. What are you going to do about it?” Dreams speak symbolically. If you have lost your keys, are in a car that you cannot stop or control, are late for anContinue reading “September 27-B, 2022”

September 27-A, 2022

Start anywhere, any time. The path begins with the next step, in any direction. Just start walking with your eyes and ears open, being aware of everything. There is nothing more to enlightenment than realization, and there is always more to realize than we realize, so we are always being enlightened, we are always wakingContinue reading “September 27-A, 2022”

September 26-A, 2022

Contriving to have our way is the root of all of our problems today. Any day. Every day. “I came not to be served, but to serve, and to give my life to set others free.” Free to be what? To do what? To be who they need to be, doing what needs to beContinue reading “September 26-A, 2022”

September, 4th Week, 2022

The less we have at stake in any situation, the freer we are to choose the path that needs to be chosen. We avoid conflicts of interest when our interest is in the good of the situation as a whole. What is called for here/now? What works best here/now? What is crying out to beContinue reading “September, 4th Week, 2022”

September 25-B, 2022

It begins with the right attitude. And wanders, strolls and dawdles from there finding its way among the 10,000 things riding the wind that blows where it will on the adventure of life and being. The church, if it would, would have an automatic corner on the spiritual development market, fill the emptiest niche inContinue reading “September 25-B, 2022”

September 25-A, 2022

I have two books to recommend, that everyone should read at least three times over the course of their life, with five years or so between times. The first is by S.I. Hayakawa, “Language in Thought and Action.” Because nothing is more important in knowing what’s what and what to do about it than language–asContinue reading “September 25-A, 2022”

September 24-C, 2022

Jesus put an end to theology and all of its stepchildren, doctrine, dogma, dharma and hymnbooks– all of which are clandestine books of doctrine set to music– with his, “The spirit is like the wind that blows where it will.” The spirit, bound to theology, can’t move, locked in as it is by chains ofContinue reading “September 24-C, 2022”

September 24-B, 2022

Jesus wasn’t big on believing. He never said, “If you don’t believe what I’m saying, you are going to hell.” He said, “Blessed are those who hear what I’m saying and do it.” Jesus was all about doing. Not believing. Not thinking. Only seeing/hearing/doing. “Love your enemies.” “Love your neighbors.” “Love yourself.” “Live in lovingContinue reading “September 24-B, 2022”

September 24-A, 2022

When Jesus said, “Wisdom is known by her children,” he is saying, “Time will tell.” The way we read and respond to the situation as it arises will be validated or invalidated in time. And that will inform how we read and respond to similar situations in the future. We learn from experience only whenContinue reading “September 24-A, 2022”