We recover our balance and harmony by sitting still in a quiet place and breathing normally while focusing intently on our breathing. Breathe in. Say it mentally as you do. Breathe out. Say it. Pause between breaths for a count of five. Breathe in. Say it. Breathe out. Say it. Count. Do that for threeContinue reading “July 31-A, 2022”
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July 30-B, 2022
Anything is bearable with meaning, nothing is bearable with out it. We are alive, vital and vibrant with meaning. Dead, empty-eyed and vacant without it. Where do you find meaning in your life? How often do you relish and enjoy it? Spend time with what is meaningful. Do the things that are meaningful. Give meaningContinue reading “July 30-B, 2022”
July 30-A, 2022
In order to be an independent, self-reliant, human being, we have to be able to pay our bills– and to know how to incur only the right bills. Once that is down, we have to be able to establish our own boundaries and draw our own lines. So that we do not have to explain/defend/justify/excuseContinue reading “July 30-A, 2022”
July 29-C, 2022
Where do you go for comfort and peace? What restores your soul? Your connection with soul? What do you do to experience the goodness of place and time? The right kind of bookstore does that for me. And the right kind of restaurant. Lakes and woods. Music. The right kind of coffee. Rainy days. UsedContinue reading “July 29-C, 2022”
July 29-B, 2022
We cannot change our mind about what is important. Our mind has a mind of its own. Our mind will change itself about what is important when the time comes. Until then, we wait and watch in the right kind of emptiness, stillness and silence, in order to know the time of realization when itContinue reading “July 29-B, 2022”
July 29-A, 2022
If you want things to click into place in your life, you have to stop tying to force them into place. You have to not know what “in place” means, and allow your life to show you what it means. We cannot live the life we want to live and live the life our lifeContinue reading “July 29-A, 2022”
July 28-B, 2022
Arthur Schopenhauer talks a lot (In “The World As Will And Representation”) about “The Will to Life,” without mentioning the Will to Power, or the Will to Create, or the Will to Have/Own/Possess, or the Will to Explore/Investigate/Inquire/Understand or the Will to Know/Do/Be… And I don’t think we generate any of these out of ourContinue reading “July 28-B, 2022”
July 28-A, 2022
We all draw the line in places and in ways that suit us. Other people would have us draw it in different places which would suit them. We have to draw our own line in places and in ways that suit us Opening the way for Fraser Snowden’s remark, “The only true philosophical question isContinue reading “July 28-A, 2022”
July 27-B, 2022
It is all useless, pointless, hopeless, futile and absurd, and that’s where we come in, as Doctor Who (Steven Moffat) would say. It is our place to remain in place on the Anchor Stone of our original nature and the innate virtues that are ours from birth, and say, “So what?” adding: “What’s the useContinue reading “July 27-B, 2022”
July 27-A, 2022
That there is a willing force at the heart of life– at the heart of all living things (Whether they have an actual heart or not) is certainly difficult to deny. Life is so abundant, for one thing. There are tiny toads all over my yard these days. The toad hatch started about a weekContinue reading “July 27-A, 2022”
July 26-C, 2022
An unwavering conviction about how things ought to be is the worst thing in the world. No! In the universe! “All things considered” shifts how things ought to be around quite a bit, and it works out that how things ought to be depends upon the configuration of variables in the here/now of the assessment,Continue reading “July 26-C, 2022”
July 26-B, 2022
If your life were your own to live, how would it be different from the way it is now? What can you do now, to begin moving in that direction? What symbolic act can you make in your life as a gesture declaring your intention to live into living your life as you know itContinue reading “July 26-B, 2022”
