Author Archives: jimwdollar

01 Knowing where we belong, and what we belong to, and where we have no business being– and being right about it– are important boundary markers for our life journey. Finding our life and living it is also finding our place and staying with it. Knowing what’s what and what’s called for in each situationContinue reading “April 16, 2022”

01 What are you doing when you lose all track of time, and it could be yesterday or tomorrow, and you aren’t sure of the month? You need to do more of that. And, if you don’t know what I’m talking about, you need to completely revamp your relationship with yourself and with your life,Continue reading “April 15 2022”

01 “We are who we always have been,” said Carl Jung. “And who we will be.” It’s a declaration discounting the value of free will, and dismissing the prospect of progress and human development. But it affirms the resilience of the rhizome, and speaks of the hope that we might yet find and be whoContinue reading “April 13, 2022”

01 Integrity requires that we live to be who we are. That we live aligned with that which is deepest, truest, best about us– serving and sharing the virtues, genius, daemon, spirit, shtick, gifts, etc. that came with us from the womb. That we are right about what is important and live in ways thatContinue reading “April 12, 2022”

01 A life worth living is the life we are here for. Where do we find it? It is best to let the life find us! Like “the wand chooses the wizard,” our life chooses us. Where have we said “No,” is the question. What are we saying “No,” to right now? And where haveContinue reading “April 11, 2022”

01 The old Alchemists had a slogan, “One book opens another.” We might think of it as “This leads to that.” It is important to look for the clues in seeking to find our path and follow it “in accord with the Tao, the Way, The Path. What does where we are on our ownContinue reading “April 10, 2022”

01 We get up and do it again. Enthusiasm for the task flows from the way we view the task. What did Sisyphus tell himself every day? The trick is to not allow the day and what we have to do in it to divorce us/cut us off from ourselves. It is the quality ofContinue reading “April 09, 2022”

01 The old Taoists (And Carl Jung, and Joseph Campbell, and others) would say, “Get out of your thinking brain and into your instinctive/intuitive brain! You are never going to think your way into living in accord with the Tao!” They wouldn’t mean that we can live separated from our thinking brain. They would meanContinue reading “April 07, 2022”

01 We have to hear what we are saying in order to know–and be–who we are. Where do you go to hear what you have to say? To say what needs to be said? To know–and be–who you are? We are only allowed to say what is permissible to say. We can’t say the truthContinue reading “April 06, 2022”