jimwdollar

August 06-B, 2022

If I could do one thing for you, I would increase your pain threshold. Our tolerance for the pain of life is the single most important thing about us. Increasing that gives us more latitude, flexibility, working room in dealing with the day’s deliveries. The way we take what comes determines the response we makeContinue reading “August 06-B, 2022”

August 06-A, 2022

Marianne Moore said, “The cure for loneliness is solitude.” Solitude is solidarity with ourselves. Speak and listen inwardly for a response. Ask a question and listen for a reply. See how long you can extend the inner dialogue imagining a conversation with yourself. Our best ideas are generated within ourselves, and we discover Jung wasContinue reading “August 06-A, 2022”

August 05-E, 2022

How often, and at what point, does your personal gain factor into your choices and decisions? That is where we step into the story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden and where we go from there, what we do then, tells the tale. Where we go from there, and what we doContinue reading “August 05-E, 2022”

August 05-D, 2022

Jesus came “in the fullness of time.” We all do. In all of us “the time is fulfilled.” In all of us “the kingdom of God is at hand.” Every moment is the moment of transfiguration. The moment of realization/enlightenment/illumination/revelation… This is the Eternal Now of our being/becoming aware of and present to the timeContinue reading “August 05-D, 2022”

August 05-C, 2022

There is cooperating with the power coursing through life and being, and there is co-opting and coercing that power (Or attempting to). This is the theme of the Star Wars movies, and is the difference between Yoda and Palpatine. Using the Force for our own ends (Or attempting to) is the way of the DarkContinue reading “August 05-C, 2022”

August 05-B, 2022

The following is an excerpt from my book, “A Handbook for the Spiritual Journey,” on WordPress: “Less than 45% of registered voters turn out to vote in most elections. 50% of 45% is only 25% of the voters registered to vote. If you cannot scare 25% of the registered voters into voting for you, youContinue reading “August 05-B, 2022”

August 05-A, 2022

Carl Jung’s idea of synchronicity, with the right thing happening at the right time, in the right way is a here/now description of the Tao from 5000 BCE. What is in charge of arraigning synchronicity? That is what is in charge of the Tao. Jung would call it “the unconscious,” which is a catch phraseContinue reading “August 05-A, 2022”

August 04-B, 2022

Whatever the next thing is that gets you down, tell yourself that Helen Keller had it much worse, and stand up and do what needs to be done. Helen Keller–and Anne Sullivan– are my Go To women of courage and valor. And they are way ahead of any men I can think of. Helen KellerContinue reading “August 04-B, 2022”

August 04-A, 2022

Carl Jung said that none of the really important problems can be solved– they can only be outgrown. All it takes is growing up some more again. All our life long. Growing up is the solution to all of our problems today. Any day. Every day. Why don’t we just grow up? Save ourselves aContinue reading “August 04-A, 2022”

August 03-B, 2022

What to do is never a problem for those firmly established upon the Anchor Stone of their original nature and the innate virtues that come with them from the womb. When we live out of who we are instead of out of trying to get what we want, what to do is always right there,Continue reading “August 03-B, 2022”

August 03-A 2022

I did not live out my life in Peggy’s Cove, or in Itta Bena, Mississippi. I’m just a glad to be a wayfaring stranger quite at home wandering from place to place with a camera and a notebook in hand seeking a different take on things, a shifting point of view, a never-changing perspective. IfContinue reading “August 03-A 2022”

August 02-C, 2022

We find our way, not by serving/doing/seeking what we want, but opening ourselves to what needs us to do it– to what needs us in particular to do it. And discover, thereby, that what needs our peculiar blend of gifts/shtick/knacks/interests/loves/daemon/etc. is precisely what we need most to bring forth, exhibit/express/incarnate/make known. We discover who weContinue reading “August 02-C, 2022”