Author Archives: jimwdollar

01 Maturity is doing what you don’t want in the service of what you do want. Immaturity is not doing anything you don’t want no matter what it costs someone else to make you happy. Though the degree to which you have to stay high makes it easy for everyone to doubt that you haveContinue reading “January 26, 2022”

01 What have you always had to do well? What have you always had to get right? Not because someone told you to, not because anyone was watching. Because it mattered to you, and you had to do it like it needed to be done to please yourself? What do you do like it needsContinue reading “January 25, 2022”

01 Helen Keller didn’t have much in the way of hope the way a lot of people think of hope, she made up for it with a willful determination to deal successfully with her situation in life, no matter what. Speaking of “what,” what’s keeping us from making the same effort in coming to termsContinue reading “January 24, 2022”

01 My work is seeing and saying what’s so. Whether anyone sees and hears it or not. My work is seeing and saying. It has nothing to do with finding someone who can see and hear. What is seen and said elicit their own seeing and hearing, call it forth it its own time amongContinue reading “January 23, 2022”

01 Why would we push the limits, or the envelope, without being pushed to by the nature of our circumstances? Under normal operating conditions, it is the savvy thing, the wise thing, to wait for the door to open, and then walk through. No guideline applies across all conditions. The rule across all circumstances, timesContinue reading “January 22, 2022”

01 We find the way by trusting ourselves to the emptiness and walking. The catch is that we cannot use this method for our own personal gain, profit and pleasure. We belong to the way. The way does not belong to us. We cannot manipulate and control any outcome. No agendas, no opinions, are theContinue reading “January 21, 2022”

01 When the world is too much for me, I go in my mind to the isolated shore of some pond and allow the stillness of the place to calm and heal all that is raw and angry about me, comforting my sorrow, soothing my pain, reassuring me with the water of life sustaining theContinue reading “January 20, 2022”

01 The right kind of emptiness is the solution to all of our problems today. Everyday. The right kind of emptiness gets rid of all of the inappropriate responses to the way things are, and clears the way for us to rise to the occasion, doing what needs to be done about what can beContinue reading “January 19, 2022”

01 We bring morality and ethics to bear on nature and the psyche. This is our role to play in the evolution of the species. Our specialty is knowing right from wrong, good from evil, and applying that to what is happening in order to create something that was not there before we came along,Continue reading “January 18, 2022”

01 What does wanting know? Why can we only want what we want, and not what we ought to want? Why do we so often want what we ought not want? What we have no business wanting, and certainly no business having? Why is wanting/not-wanting and ought/ought-not (Or should/shouldn’t), the only available guides for pilotingContinue reading “January 17, 2022”

01 What we can hear at any point in our life is not commensurate with what we need to hear. We always need to hear more than we are able to hear because of our wants, dreams, ambitions, desires, interests, expectations, agendas, opinions, plans, hopes, fears, assumptions, inferences, etc. We get in–and stay in–our ownContinue reading “January 15, 2022”