We live to be true to ourselves and aligned with what is asked of us in each situation as it arises. We bring forth what is called for from the stores of our original nature and the innate virtues that are ours from birth to meet the needs of the moment, moment after moment, overContinue reading “July 13-B, 2022”
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July 13-A, 2022
What does thinking about what you think about keep you from thinking about? Make your peace with that and you have it made– as much as you can have it made in a culture grounded upon diversion, distraction and denial. Entertainment, noise, complexity and confusion are the orders of the day every day. If weContinue reading “July 13-A, 2022”
July 12-C, 2022
It would be easier to be a sand dune, or a mountain range. Nothing to do but sit there and take it. Let the wind blow you where it will. Nothing to strive for, fear, desire, dread… Life presents a completely different set of problems. We wonder when is the best time to do what?Continue reading “July 12-C, 2022”
July 12-B, 2022
It is all in what we make of it, do with it, do about it. It is nothing without us. We make it what it is. It is what it becomes through us and our interaction with it, our interplay with it, our impact upon it, which is also its impact upon us. And “it”Continue reading “July 12-B, 2022”
July 12-A, 2022
We wait to see where it’s going, what to make of it, what to do. Everything shakes out by and by, clarifies, comes into focus. In the meantime, we wait. And watch, and listen, taking it all in without judgment or opinion. There is this, and that, and those things over there, but what needsContinue reading “July 12-A, 2022”
July 11-C, 2022
All growth is growing up, is maturation, is changing the way we see things, is transforming what is important, is expanding, enlarging, the scope of our vision and our comprehension of the inner-relatedness of things. Grown-up human beings are identical twins. Or close enough. They are able to “get along” despite their differences. Can seeContinue reading “July 11-C, 2022”
July 11-B, 2022
We surprise ourselves from time to time, with the right action done in the right way at the right time in the right place, even when nobody notices and life clicks right along. Clicking right along is the point. The wrong thing– particularly the really wrong thing- would have made an impact, rocked that portionContinue reading “July 11-B, 2022”
July 11-A, 2022
We are here to figure out what we are here for and how to achieve it. We start with finding our original nature and our innate virtues, and then think of avenues we might explore for applying our gifts/daemon/shtick/knacks/interests/etc. in the service of what needs to be done, when, where and how it needs toContinue reading “July 11-A, 2022”
July 10-C, 2022
We have to be right about what needs to be done, when, where and how, and do it in each situation as it arises all our life long, no matter what. And. There is no way we can be always right about it. So, we have to be alert to that reality, and make ourContinue reading “July 10-C, 2022”
July 10-B, 2022
10,000 things are in our way, necessitating our return to the emptiness, the stillness, the silence, waiting for the mud to settle and the water to clear, the noise to diminish the complexity to wain, in order to know what needs to be done, where, when and how, and do it, time after time, “withoutContinue reading “July 10-B, 2022”
July 10-A, 2022
The world needs its human population to be vitally alive. For that to be true of us, we have to be interested in what we are doing, and understand it to be necessary work, vital work, important in a substantive way to the welfare of ourselves and our neighbors. We have to be doing workContinue reading “July 10-A, 2022”
July 09-C, 2022
The frustrations of life need a lot of silence to be silenced. We need to sit quietly more often than we do, in more quiet than we are often allowed. Noise and bustle seem to be the orders of the day, every day. Because, I think, the other side of noise is recognition, realization, knowing,Continue reading “July 09-C, 2022”
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