Author Archives: jimwdollar

Our life is a string of coincidences and another string of luck intertwined and playing out, and what we make of it is our gift to the mix. It helps to have little in the way of expectations, agendas, plans, opinions, judgment, willfulness, demands and requirements. Being true to our essential nature and our innateContinue reading “October 1-A, 2022”

We want that and don’t want to give up this to get it. “You can’t have your cake and eat it, too,” gets to the heart of the matter. The only way out of the morass is bearing the pain. How well–how consciously–how deliberately– how consistently–how utterly and completely– we bear the pain of beingContinue reading “September 30-B, 2022”

When “the world is too much with us late and soon” (William Wordsworth), we have to recognize it and step back. And when we cannot step back, we have to recognize that, and let it be, because it is, and live with as it is, knowing in a “This cannot be helped, so let’s doContinue reading “September 29-A, 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”

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”

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”