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July 31-C, 2022

Our life is about living into who we are no matter what. When we are blocked in that development, side-tracked, hijacked, prevented from knowing and being ourselves, there is hell to pay, seen exhibited before us in the eruption of drug and alcohol addiction, physical, emotional, psychological symptoms wrecking the health of the world, becauseContinue reading “July 31-C, 2022”

July 31-B, 2022

There is only one measure of success. It is how you answer the question, “How alive are you?” The quality and degree of your life is the only thing that matters. Money matters least of all. The question here is, “What are you doing with your money?” In order to improve the quality and degreeContinue reading “July 31-B, 2022”

July 31-A, 2022

We recover our balance and harmony by sitting still in a quiet place and breathing normally while focusing intently on our breathing. Breathe in. Say it mentally as you do. Breathe out. Say it. Pause between breaths for a count of five. Breathe in. Say it. Breathe out. Say it. Count. Do that for threeContinue reading “July 31-A, 2022”

July 30-B, 2022

Anything is bearable with meaning, nothing is bearable with out it. We are alive, vital and vibrant with meaning. Dead, empty-eyed and vacant without it. Where do you find meaning in your life? How often do you relish and enjoy it? Spend time with what is meaningful. Do the things that are meaningful. Give meaningContinue reading “July 30-B, 2022”

July 30-A, 2022

In order to be an independent, self-reliant, human being, we have to be able to pay our bills– and to know how to incur only the right bills. Once that is down, we have to be able to establish our own boundaries and draw our own lines. So that we do not have to explain/defend/justify/excuseContinue reading “July 30-A, 2022”

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”