Author Archives: jimwdollar

01 What do you need in order to find your life and live it? What do you need to find what you need to find your life and live it? We all have an original nature, unique to us, embedded in our DNA, packed with all of the virtues that are ours to serve andContinue reading “March 27, 2022”

01 What would be helpful? What would be an acceptable substitute? How would a change of mind/perspective work as an acceptable substitute? We are looking at things in one way, seeing problems. Why not look at things in a different way? Why not experiment with different ways of looking at things? We say things areContinue reading “March 24, 2022”

01 Wars are always coming along. I don’t know why. I’m not saying there aren’t people who don’t need killing, but most of those who do, start wars, when it ought to be the other way around. Make sense of it if you can. Making sense of things that make no sense is one ofContinue reading “March 23, 2022”

01 What are the destabilizing influences in your life? How do you balance your contradictions? Harmonize your opposites? Integrate your polarities? How conscious are you of the importance of living from the center? What do you do to reduce the noise, diminish the complexity, decrease the clutter, minimize the drama, increase the emptiness, stillness andContinue reading “March 22, 2022”

01 We find our way to the next thing by doing this thing the way it needs to be done. One thing leads to another this way, and that’s the way to the Way! The Way is the way we meet the day– and each situation as it arises in the day. There is nothingContinue reading “March 21, 2022”

01 Everyone once knew that the spiritual world of instinct, intuition, imagination, hunches and nudges was the foundation of the material world of logic, reason, intelligence, morality and ethics. Then the Age of Reason came along and all that changed. Well. There is the kind of knowing that knows facts and figures, and what timeContinue reading “March 20, 2022”

01 We measure progress on the way to The Way, which is the way to finding our life and living it, by the quality and amount of emptiness, stillness and silence we can tolerate in a day. And by the number of times we get up and do what needs to be done, when itContinue reading “March 19, 2022”

01 The Gateless Gate stands before us in each moment, inviting us to step through and flip our perspective in order to see what we look at, hear what the situation is calling for, know what needs to be done and do it with our original nature and the virtues that arrived tucked inside ofContinue reading “March 18, 2022”

01 Take God out of the equation and how do we make sense of things? Without theology, what do we do? What orders life then? What structures existence? What is the ground of morality and ethics? The purpose and goal of what we do? The reason for life? God is a safety net, catching usContinue reading “March 17, 2022”