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June 29, 2022

01 Life is hard enough with plenty of cooperation. How long has that been? Since we had plenty of cooperation? The Familiarity of stabilizing routines help nudge us along from one recovery to the next, and they are getting more frequent as time goes by. The Supreme Court rocking people’s world is far removed fromContinue reading “June 29, 2022”

June 28, 2022

01 Take it standing up and ask them if that’s the best they got. You can do it with the right perspective, attitude, frame of mind. Perspective is a super power, transforming everything and transforming us to deal appropriately with everything. There is nothing that the right perspective can’t improve. Step into your life withContinue reading “June 28, 2022”

June 27, 2022

01 More for them is not less for you, for me, for us. We have the idea that they are out to get us, when we are the ones who have gotten them, and we are sure they will do the same to us as we have done to them if we let our guardContinue reading “June 27, 2022”

June 26, 2021

01 The tools at our disposal are our awareness, our original nature, our innate virtues, innocence, integrity, sincerity, spontaneity, emptiness, stillness, silence, playfulness, pace and timing. Everything else falls into place around, and flows from, these things. Our practice is learning to live in ways that serve and share them, moment to moment in eachContinue reading “June 26, 2021”

June 25, 2022

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”

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”