Author Archives: jimwdollar

01 How does Tevya (Fiddler on the Roof) make it in New York without his horse and wagon, cow and chickens, his children and his community? Tevya and Golda step off the boat and into a land that is foreign on all levels. The language, the money, the noise, the concrete and steel… If onlyContinue reading “February 18, 2022”

01 What grounds you, centers you, stabilizes you, orients you, focuses you, and enables you to go on? What are the destabilizing forces at work in your life? What do you do– where do you go– to return to the source, regain your equilibrium, get your feet back under you relocate the path, recover yourContinue reading “February 17, 2022”

01 There is body and there is mind. Physical and spiritual. The actual and the numinous, ineffable. There is what we want and there is what wants us. We have an affinity for the spiritual. We resonate with the spiritual. We are Adam and Eve at one with the truth of our existence. Babies fromContinue reading “February 14, 2022”

01 Things are the way they are because things are the way they are. There is no Cause and Effect in place. Effects are the cause of unlimited effects. Effects spill over, pouring out over generations and centuries. Be careful–and savvy–about what you do in response to everything. The way we live has immense impactContinue reading “February 13, 2022”

01 We make it through the dark times in the strength of our original nature and the consolation of the right kind of emptiness, stillness and silence. All the help we need is found there to ground us in the adamantine knowledge of the qualities and characteristics, the gifts, daemon, shtick, abilities, talents, knacks, etc.Continue reading “February 12, 2022”

01 We have said “Liberty and justice for all,” but wealthy people, powerful people, think that doesn’t apply to them, particularly the “justice” part, or to those they don’t like, and live to have life their way, doing what the want, when they want, any way they want, without consequences or repercussions. And they don’tContinue reading “February 11, 2022”

02 “Turning the light around” is an old Taoist phrase from around 500 years Before the Common Era. It means the same thing Jesus said when he said “Don’t look out there for it, or over there for it, or up there for it, or back there for it! Look within yourself! The kingdom ofContinue reading “February 10, 2022”

01 The people who killed Jesus and the people who did not listen to Jesus were the same type of people, separated only by their station in life. They were out for what they could get by any means necessary. Jesus had a better idea for them than they had for themselves, and they hadContinue reading “February 09, 2022”

01 There are only two things to know: What needs to be done that we can do anything about. What we need to do it. We need to know those two things in each situation as it arises. That’s it. Why do we waste time on so many concerns that don’t amount to anything? –0–Continue reading “February 08, 2022”

01 There is nothing to it, to being anchored on the immovable spot and oriented toward doing what needs to be done in each situation as it arises throughout our life. All it takes is changing our mind about what is important, being right about what IS important, and living in ways that serve itContinue reading “February 07, 2022”