We live into who we are. It is easier with support and encouragement, but even without it, there is something in us that craves expression and needs us to champion its cause against all odds. We have to find our voice and sing, or find our rhythm and dance, or find our wings and fly…Continue reading “August 09-A, 2022”
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August 08-C, 2022
This is an excerpt from “The Nature of Spiritual Reality I,” from my book, “A Handbook for the Spiritual Journey” on WordPress: All knowing is tentative, conditional, specific to this here and this now, and things are always shifting, changing, calling for something different in the next here and now, or the one after that.Continue reading “August 08-C, 2022”
August 08-B, 2022
We (ideally) bridge the worlds, the physical world of normal, apparent, reality, and the metaphysical (Our term) the world beyond the physical world, which is the world of abnormal, easy to overlook/deny, reality. Our Ego-mind connects us firmly to this world. Our Yogi-mind connects us firmly to the world beyond this world. Yogi-mind can beContinue reading “August 08-B, 2022”
August 08-A, 2022
No highs, no lows. “Hold her steady as she goes.” There are no steady states of being, so we opt for the next best thing, keeping the wobbles within a normal distribution curve. This is the meaning of, “The hills and mountains will be made low, the valleys and the swamps will be lifted up,”Continue reading “August 08-A, 2022”
August 07-C, 2022
Suffering, pain, misery and agony get all the hype. “Oh, the pain, the pain!” “Why the pain?” “Oh, woe, oh, woe!” We go on so over the suffering and the pain, that it is hard to tell where the actual experience of suffering and pain starts and the anticipation/dread of suffering and pain stops. WeContinue reading “August 07-C, 2022”
August 07-B, 2022
Jesus said, “Let your ‘Yes’ be yes, and let your ‘No’ be no.” And he might have added, “And, let your ‘Goodbye’ be goodbye,” because there is no looking back with regret or longing for those whose “Yes” is yes, and whose “No” is no. People who live with authenticity and genuineness, who say whatContinue reading “August 07-B, 2022”
August 07-A, 2022
Silence is a lost art and the primary source of realization. Things occur to us out of the silence. We can ponder the solution to a problem for days and take a shower and there it is with a clarity and certainty that leave all questions answered. Or we can wrestle with what to doContinue reading “August 07-A, 2022”
August 06-B, 2022
If I could do one thing for you, I would increase your pain threshold. Our tolerance for the pain of life is the single most important thing about us. Increasing that gives us more latitude, flexibility, working room in dealing with the day’s deliveries. The way we take what comes determines the response we makeContinue reading “August 06-B, 2022”
August 06-A, 2022
Marianne Moore said, “The cure for loneliness is solitude.” Solitude is solidarity with ourselves. Speak and listen inwardly for a response. Ask a question and listen for a reply. See how long you can extend the inner dialogue imagining a conversation with yourself. Our best ideas are generated within ourselves, and we discover Jung wasContinue reading “August 06-A, 2022”
August 05-E, 2022
How often, and at what point, does your personal gain factor into your choices and decisions? That is where we step into the story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden and where we go from there, what we do then, tells the tale. Where we go from there, and what we doContinue reading “August 05-E, 2022”
August 05-D, 2022
Jesus came “in the fullness of time.” We all do. In all of us “the time is fulfilled.” In all of us “the kingdom of God is at hand.” Every moment is the moment of transfiguration. The moment of realization/enlightenment/illumination/revelation… This is the Eternal Now of our being/becoming aware of and present to the timeContinue reading “August 05-D, 2022”
August 05-C, 2022
There is cooperating with the power coursing through life and being, and there is co-opting and coercing that power (Or attempting to). This is the theme of the Star Wars movies, and is the difference between Yoda and Palpatine. Using the Force for our own ends (Or attempting to) is the way of the DarkContinue reading “August 05-C, 2022”
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