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”
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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”
June 15, 2022
01 There are no shortcuts to where we are going. It’s one day at a time all the way. Of course, we can speed things up by seeing what we look at, hearing what we listen to, being aware of what we are dismissing, discounting, ignoring, knowing what we know, knowing what’s what, knowing whatContinue reading “June 15, 2022”
June 14, 2022
01 There are people who do their jobs the way they need to be done. There are people who live their lives the way they need to be lived. Start looking for them. There are more of them than you might think. And don’t forget to add yourself to your running tally of how manyContinue reading “June 14, 2022”
June 13, 2022
01 If we lay aside our expectations, agendas, plans, schemes, fears, desires and lethargy, and simply look for what needs doing, and bring our original nature and our innate virtues into play in doing it in each situation as it arises, this will transform our life and set us free to act in ways conduciveContinue reading “June 13, 2022”
June 12, 2022
01 We can deal with anything living out of our original nature and the virtues that are ours from birth in conjunction with the right kind of emptiness, stillness and silence. Emptiness, stillness and silence are the matrix within which we develop our relationship with our nature and our virtues, and out of which weContinue reading “June 12, 2022”
June 11, 2022
01 The Mystery at the heart of life and being Fis Life. Life is The Mystery. The source of life is life itself. Life is eternal, always, never ending, forever evolving, generating new life forms for any environment, accommodating itself to space and time, making merry, dancing, dancing, dancing, through all times and places. DeathContinue reading “June 11, 2022”
June 10, 2022
01 We look at our lives with tired eyes, and see the same old boring same old. We don’t believe anything will ever be new. “There is nothing new under the sun,” says the Old Testament. We know what it is talking about. The zest and hope have gone out of our lives. We areContinue reading “June 10, 2022”
June 09, 2022
01 The most ignorant thing is thinking that how we see things is how things are. How we see things is our interpretation of reality, of how things are. Alfred Korzybski and S.I. Hayakawa and others have explored the differences between our perceptions of reality and reality “just as it is” in their books onContinue reading “June 09, 2022”
June 08, 2022
01 Living from our heart is living with sincerity and integrity. It is the way of all children. “Innocent,” we say. Without guile or craft, just “straight from the heart.” Until they learn to be crafty and sly. “Smart like a fox,” and “Always up to something.” But, Jesus meant living with sincerity and integrity,Continue reading “June 08, 2022”
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