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May 24, 2022

01 We cooperate — collaborate — with our life just to see where it will take us. We are not serving some hidden purpose, fulfilling a plan that was laid down before we were born. We are relishing wonder, creating a life that has never been lived before, pursuing joy and satisfaction, allowing our interestsContinue reading “May 24, 2022”

May 23, 2022

01 Friedrich Nietzsche said the goal of maturity is to live as one who is directed from within, “like a wheel rolling out of its own center” (Joseph Campbell). I prefer the metaphor of a gyroscope turning out of its own center, maintaining its own balance and harmony amid the chaos and upheaval of itsContinue reading “May 23, 2022”

May 22, 2022

01 Marianne Moore said, “The cure for loneliness is solitude.” The trick to managing our solitude is emptiness, stillness and silence. The trick to emptiness is no expectations, no agenda, no opinions, no engagement with anything that comes up, so that nothing sticks. Everything just flows on by. Speaking of “by,” by and by, youContinue reading “May 22, 2022”

May 21, 2022

01 Living with sincerity and integrity out of our original nature and the virtues that are ours from birth, in touch with The Mystery at the Heart of Life and Being, with a regular practice centering on emptiness, stillness and silence, concerned with doing what is needed, when, where and how it is needed inContinue reading “May 21, 2022”

May 20, 2022

o1 We cannot mature without changing the way we live our life. That is why we are awash in immaturity everywhere we look. No one wants anything to be different about their life ever (Or, everybody wishes their life were different, with nothing changing). Hanging on, hanging on, not letting anything go. How is thatContinue reading “May 20, 2022”

May 19-C, 2022

01 The world is as we make it out to be and we cannot get beyond our idea of how things are to how things actually are. We don’t know how things actually are. How they appear to be is as close as we can get. This plays nicely with: No expectations! No agenda! NoContinue reading “May 19-C, 2022”

May 19-B, 2022

01 We have to agree about what is important. What is important has to BE important to us. The failure to know and serve what is important is the loss of the vital core holding us together. Holding the planet together. When we fail to honor the bonds of human-being-together-hood, and begin to take oneContinue reading “May 19-B, 2022”

May 19, 2022

01 No expectations. No agendas. No opinions. These are the Three Adjustments enabling us to just see what the circumstances call for– to just see what needs to be done– in each situation as it arises and do it when, where and how it needs to be done, with the virtues that are ours fromContinue reading “May 19, 2022”

May 18, 2022

01 We have to have a vibrant relationship with mystery, with The Mystery at the Heart of Life and Being. There is That Which We Do Not Know, but can intuit, apprehend, sense, “know.” We can know of That Which We Do Not Know. Greeks and Romans had a shrine “To The Unknown God,” justContinue reading “May 18, 2022”

May 17, 2022

01 We all have trouble with things not going our way. It’s been that way with black people throughout the history of this country. They have yet to take up arms and go to war with asshole white people. Everybody else goes to war over the least little slight. Putin didn’t like something about UkraineContinue reading “May 17, 2022”

May 16, 2022

01 We have to live with the life we have lived, measured by the degree of sincerity and integrity we brought to life in the way we lived. By the degree of balance and harmony we enabled. By the amount of spirit, energy and vitality we exhibited and enabled in the people around us. ByContinue reading “May 16, 2022”

May 15, 2022

01 We will never turn life to our way of liking. We take it as it is and do our best to manage the dichotomy between how it is and how we want it to be– how well we do that depends on the nature of the circumstances. Wanting to be taller (or shorter) isContinue reading “May 15, 2022”