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July 29-C, 2022

Where do you go for comfort and peace? What restores your soul? Your connection with soul? What do you do to experience the goodness of place and time? The right kind of bookstore does that for me. And the right kind of restaurant. Lakes and woods. Music. The right kind of coffee. Rainy days. UsedContinue reading “July 29-C, 2022”

July 29-B, 2022

We cannot change our mind about what is important. Our mind has a mind of its own. Our mind will change itself about what is important when the time comes. Until then, we wait and watch in the right kind of emptiness, stillness and silence, in order to know the time of realization when itContinue reading “July 29-B, 2022”

July 29-A, 2022

If you want things to click into place in your life, you have to stop tying to force them into place. You have to not know what “in place” means, and allow your life to show you what it means. We cannot live the life we want to live and live the life our lifeContinue reading “July 29-A, 2022”

July 28-B, 2022

Arthur Schopenhauer talks a lot (In “The World As Will And Representation”) about “The Will to Life,” without mentioning the Will to Power, or the Will to Create, or the Will to Have/Own/Possess, or the Will to Explore/Investigate/Inquire/Understand or the Will to Know/Do/Be… And I don’t think we generate any of these out of ourContinue reading “July 28-B, 2022”

July 28-A, 2022

We all draw the line in places and in ways that suit us. Other people would have us draw it in different places which would suit them. We have to draw our own line in places and in ways that suit us Opening the way for Fraser Snowden’s remark, “The only true philosophical question isContinue reading “July 28-A, 2022”

July 27-B, 2022

It is all useless, pointless, hopeless, futile and absurd, and that’s where we come in, as Doctor Who (Steven Moffat) would say. It is our place to remain in place on the Anchor Stone of our original nature and the innate virtues that are ours from birth, and say, “So what?” adding: “What’s the useContinue reading “July 27-B, 2022”

July 27-A, 2022

That there is a willing force at the heart of life– at the heart of all living things (Whether they have an actual heart or not) is certainly difficult to deny. Life is so abundant, for one thing. There are tiny toads all over my yard these days. The toad hatch started about a weekContinue reading “July 27-A, 2022”

July 26-C, 2022

An unwavering conviction about how things ought to be is the worst thing in the world. No! In the universe! “All things considered” shifts how things ought to be around quite a bit, and it works out that how things ought to be depends upon the configuration of variables in the here/now of the assessment,Continue reading “July 26-C, 2022”

July 26-B, 2022

If your life were your own to live, how would it be different from the way it is now? What can you do now, to begin moving in that direction? What symbolic act can you make in your life as a gesture declaring your intention to live into living your life as you know itContinue reading “July 26-B, 2022”

July 26-A, 2022

There is what we want to do, and there is what needs us to do it whether we want to or not. How do we pare our life out between what we want to do and what needs to be done? How do we decide when to do what? I never go anywhere without myContinue reading “July 26-A, 2022”

July 25-C, 2022

Our choices determine, or strongly influence, our choices. In any situation, we are where we are by virtue of the choice we made to lead to this point. We can’t keep making the same choices and have a different life. What are the themes running through our choosing? In what ways are we predictable? InContinue reading “July 25-C, 2022”

July 25-B, 2022

The Eternal Moment is any moment that connects us with eternity, and we know “This is IT!” in terms of THIS being the microcosm of the macrocosm. The Eternal Now is the representative encounter with the experience of wonder characteristic of eternity. Where the transcendent and the imminent are one, and the world is seenContinue reading “July 25-B, 2022”