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May 15, 2022

01 We will never turn life to our way of liking. We take it as it is and do our best to manage the dichotomy between how it is and how we want it to be– how well we do that depends on the nature of the circumstances. Wanting to be taller (or shorter) isContinue reading “May 15, 2022”

May 14-B, 2022

01 I have always been a sap for sincerity and integrity– I think because they were so absent in my early experience, I sought it out like it was the Philosopher’s Stone. Turns out, it is. Sincerity and integrity, I mean. People use sincerity and integrity, across the planet, throughout the universe, as a frontContinue reading “May 14-B, 2022”

May 14, 2022

01 The transformation is internal. We shift in relation to the world. The world remains exactly what it has always been, but we see it with grace and acceptance, knowing it to be the birthplace of seeing/hearing/knowing/understanding/ enlightenment/realization/satori/awakening… The world is Nazareth and the stable in Bethlehem to our conception and birth as Christ-consciousness/Buddha-mind. ItContinue reading “May 14, 2022”

May 13, 2022

01 Can you imagine a satisfying life apart from going/doing/having/getting? Just being? Being just as we are? Just so? At ease with ourselves and our place in our life? What bills would we run up like that? How much would it take to live like that? It would destroy the economy. Seriously. The economy isContinue reading “May 13, 2022”

May 12-B, 2022

01 The individual, personal, devoted oath of allegiance to the service of virtues worthy of fealty, liege loyalty and filial dependability in each situation as it arises our entire life long is all that is needed to right the ship and sail through heaving waves past clashing rocks and perils of the journey, holding aContinue reading “May 12-B, 2022”

May 12, 2022

01 What do you know of God that you did not receive from some other source, including the Bible? What is your own experience of God? Who is the God YOU call God? Nobody can give you your God. The only God that can be your God is the God you know to be God,Continue reading “May 12, 2022”

May 11, 2022

01 This present moment’s relationship with the entirety of my life is seemingly inconsequential in its ordinariness, but the theme of “ordinary” played out in a string of such moments begins to weigh-in on the entirety of my life, and becomes quiet influential over time. Enough “ordinary days” become a quite “ordinary life.” And, itContinue reading “May 11, 2022”

May 10, 2022

01 To be in the Flow is to be so with what is happening and to know so spontaneously what needs to happen that we are one with the movement of the moment, as dancers are one with each other, and one with the music, and one with the dance, so that neither the dancers,Continue reading “May 10, 2022”

May 09-B, 2022

01 Here is a link ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8maYNgf_afA ) to a performance of my favorite Bluegrass/Gospel group who also connects me with the Tao flowing through all things to carry us all through “the Great Flow of Circumstances” to balance and harmony, sincerity and integrity, spirit, energy and vitality at the core of life and being.Continue reading “May 09-B, 2022”

May 09, 2022

01 Perspective for me is one of the deep mysteries of personality. We have depths we cannot probe. Things are always rising up to surprise, shock and confound us. Dreams befuddle us. Instant reactions to events catch us off-guard. Why we see things as we do, why we think what we think is important, whyContinue reading “May 09, 2022”

May 08, 2022

01 René Descartes’ classic, “I think, therefore I am,” was flipped by a guy at a bar in Minneapolis, “I think, therefore I think I am.” Solidifying me in my already solid opinion that there are no proofs for verifying the reality of reality. It’s an illusion we keep afloat among ourselves in the absenceContinue reading “May 08, 2022”

May 07, 2022

01 Letting the situation elicit, evoke, our response to it instead of forcing a predetermined way of acting on it based on what we want to achieve is not conducive to the balance, harmony and flow of the situation and its possibilities. We cannot have a formula in mind for producing the life we wantContinue reading “May 07, 2022”