01 Joseph Campbell had the right kind of parents. I’m envious. With the right kind of parents children have an immediate advantage that others their age can never overtake. Just try getting over having had the wrong kind of parents! And mine were no worse than 90% of the parents in their age group. GivesContinue reading “June 25, 2022”
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June 24, 2022
01 Taking the Parable of the Prodigal Son, the Parable of the Good Samaritan, and the bit in Matthew 25 about “In as much as you have done it, or not done it, to one of the least of my brothers and sisters, you have done it, or not done it, unto me,” as ourContinue reading “June 24, 2022”
June 23-B, 2022
01 Against Orthodoxy! In Praise of Heresy! G.K. Chesterson said, “When Jones follows his Inner Light, Jones follows Jones.” Of course. As with everybody who follows anything. Ask someone why they follow whom they follow. Let’s say their Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. And they will give you the spiel implanted by Orthodoxy, “Blah, Blah,Continue reading “June 23-B, 2022”
June 23, 2022
01 “What I do is me,” said Gerard Manley Hopkins, “for that I came.” There you are. Don’t let anyone talk you out of being who you are, doing what you do. The world is saved by ordinary people daring to be who they are, daring to do what they do. The Old Taoists realizedContinue reading “June 23, 2022”
June 22, 2022
01 “Tat Tvam Asi” is Sanskrit for “Thou Art That,” meaning the individual is the Absolute, or, as the Buddhists say, “All is Buddha-mind.” It takes but a shift in perspective to see that it is so. That shift in perspective is known as “Enlightenment,” or, “Awakening.” As Jesus would say, “The Father and IContinue reading “June 22, 2022”
June 21, 2022
01 Carl Jung said, “We are who we have always been, and who we will be.” Are you aware of the thread running through your life? The You who “was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be”? You, and I, and all the others, are eternal, everlastng. No one has ever been whoContinue reading “June 21, 2022”
June 20, 2022
01 We are at our best when we are free to see what needs to be done and do it, using the gifts/daemon of our original nature and our innate virtues, in the service of the good of the moment in each situation as it arises. Anything that interferes with our seeing/doing keeps us fromContinue reading “June 20, 2022”
June 19, 2022
01 We are the guardians of the Outlands, of the Boundary lands, of the Borders. We keep an eye out for threats to our security and stability– for noise and complexity. Nothing destroys our balance and harmony like noise and complexity. That is why AAAUUUUMMMM… is such a necessary restorative device. Calling us back toContinue reading “June 19, 2022”
June 18, 2022
01 Without motives, drives, plans, agendas, expectations and opinions, we are free to just be where we are, seeing/hearing what’s what and what is called for, and doing what needs to be done with the gifts/daemon/shtick of our original nature and innate virtues, when, where and how it needs to be done, for the joyContinue reading “June 18, 2022”
June 17-B, 2022
01 Where is that “very present help in time of trouble”? “Though there be no cattle in the stalls, no sheep in the pasture, no grapes on the vines, no grain in the fields, yet even so, I will not forsake the way that is The Way, nor abandon my fealty, my loyalty, my devotionContinue reading “June 17-B, 2022”
June 17, 2022
01 I wish democracy worked as advertised. Majority rule and all that jazz. Money owns the government. The people don’t have a chance. And the people have to understand that and not give a damn. The attitude of the people cannot/must not be hopelessness and a loss of faith in government. The attitude of theContinue reading “June 17, 2022”
June 16, 2022
01 What keeps us going is the joy of doing it and the satisfaction of having done it. And if we can’t say that, it is because we have lost the WOW!!! And have to get the WOW!!! back. We lose the WOW!!! mostly because of disappointed expectations. There ought to be a rule: NoContinue reading “June 16, 2022”
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