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October 27, 2021

01 It’s the quiet life for me. In preparation, perhaps, for my eventual return to the eternal silence, from which we come and to which we belong. Just being, I suppose, with what we have done, and what we have failed to do, in the time that was ours to show/discover/make our peace with ourContinue reading “October 27, 2021”

October 26, 2021

01 Making the best of what we are handed in a day means letting a lot of it go. Betrayal? Let it go. Neglect? Let it go. Abandonment? Let it go. Humiliation? Disappointment? Defeat? Etc.? Let it all go– in the strength of our own resiliency and resolve, grounded upon our unshakable faith in ourselvesContinue reading “October 26, 2021”

October 25, 2021

01 The Way of the Butterfly is The Way of us all. It cannot be spelled out, mapped out, explained (He said, explaining that it cannot be explained!) defined, told, said, outlined, made clear… Butterflies come out of the chrysalis knowing how to do what they do. How to get where they are going. HowContinue reading “October 25, 2021”

October 24, 2021

01 I want you to make peace with your life– while being true to your original nature in conjunction with the context and circumstances of the time and place of your living. I want you to live truly, to truly live, to live truthfully in light of all that is true in a “This isContinue reading “October 24, 2021”

October 23, 2021

01 I wish people were transparent. At least as transparent as dogs and horses. There is no lying with dogs and horses. Or cats. We know where we stand with plants and animals. They all are like the Buddha, as one “thus come,” just as they are, straight from the womb, or the acorn. WeContinue reading “October 23, 2021”

October 22, 2021

01 There is no god in the sky, making weal and creating woe. We are all we have. All there is. All we need. We have made all the rest of it up to comfort ourselves in the uncertainty of our existence through all those years of being at the mercy of everything. The moreContinue reading “October 22, 2021”

October 21, 2021

01 The forces that keep from happening any of the things that need to happen are firmly in place and nothing can happen that ought to happen. The Good always needs champions, but none are currently available, and all that might have taken the role are complacent and compliant servants of The Way Things MustContinue reading “October 21, 2021”

October 20, 2021

01 We rise and meet the day, every day. And do there what needs to be done. When it needs to be done. Where it needs to be done. How it needs to be done. Because it needs to be done. Each day has its own rhythms, and occasions, and times. Its own movement, andContinue reading “October 20, 2021”

October 19, 2021

01 Jesus raised the dead and left the dead to bury the dead. Jesus cursed an innocent fig tree for not having fruit out of season, and forgave a woman guilty of adultery. Jesus said, “Come to me all who are heavy-laden, and I will give you rest.” And he said, “Depart from me! IContinue reading “October 19, 2021”

October 18, 2021

01 Balance and harmony form the um-welt for, and are the offspring of, sincerity, spontaneity and integrity. Living out of sincerity, spontaneity and integrity in the service of balance and harmony, is to have nothing at stake in the outcome. It is to live from emptiness in the companionship of silence, doing what needs toContinue reading “October 18, 2021”

October 17, 2021

01 The silence has to be filtered, mined, for its gold, but if something is missed, it cycles back around. Waiting and watching are all it takes to see and hear, realize and understand, know and do and be aligned with the truth of our life at last. We can speed things up by havingContinue reading “October 17, 2021”

October 16, 2021

01 The way of integrity is the way of being in tune the way a harp or a piano is in tune, and in character the way Groucho Marx, and Betty White, were always in character. Just being who we are, when we are, where we are, how we are, within the context and circumstancesContinue reading “October 16, 2021”