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September 21, 2021

01 To know what it is time for– and not for– is true knowing. One time is not as good as another. What is it time for here and now? What is it not time for? Teachers cannot teach us these things. Books are of no help. Videos and movies are useless. Lectures and sermons,Continue reading “September 21, 2021”

September 20, 2021

01 We have to be empty even of the desire to be empty. That is the contradiction at the heart of life and being. Live the contradictions! “If I contradict myself, then I contradict myself!” said Walt Whitman in Song of Myself. Though that isn’t the exact quote. That’s another thing, trying to be exactContinue reading “September 20, 2021”

September 19, 2021

01 When we fall in love with someone, we are falling in love with the aspects of ourselves– our ideal self–our original self– that we see reflected in the other person. They remind us of the us we don’t know we are. “I see a bit of me in you, but that’s not all IContinue reading “September 19, 2021”

September 18, 2021

01 The most important Commandment in the Old Testament didn’t make it into the Top Ten. It was too controversial. “Thou Shalt Not Remove Thy Neighbor’s Landmark!” Take the Big Ten to the burning barrel. All we need is the one left behind. Understanding “landmark” on all of its metaphorical levels puts everything in itsContinue reading “September 18, 2021”

September 17, 2021

01 Light acts like a particle and acts like a wave, depending on what the occasion requires. Light is a contradiction in terms. So are you. So am I. So is life. So is the cosmos. So is truth… It is Yin and Yang all the way down! This means we are free to beContinue reading “September 17, 2021”

September 16, 2021

01 We all have things we care about and things we care not about. We are set apart and defined by those things. What do you love? What do you abhor? There you are! Even the Dalai Lama has those on his “Don’t Like To Be Around/ Don’t Like To Do” List. Here is theContinue reading “September 16, 2021”

September 15, 2021

01 The forces at work in our lives are like gravity and love in that they are always there in the background behind the scenes holding things up, keeping things going, animating things, directing things, making possible all that is possible, and may yet be– needing only cooperation and assistance to make it so. NoneContinue reading “September 15, 2021”

September 14, 2021

01 When we outlive our usefulness, we fall back on our interests and curiosity. Without interests and curiosity, we look at the wall and await our last breath, with nothing more than breathing to keep us alive. This makes maintaining and developing our interests and our curiosity, the primary tasks of the final stage ofContinue reading “September 14, 2021”

September 13, 2021

01 Everyone dies. The trick is to not die too soon. Practically everyone dies too soon. And are the walking dead Jesus was talking about (Because no one– not even Jesus– can talk to them. They are quite dead, and long past being able to hear anything being said to them) with his, “Leave theContinue reading “September 13, 2021”

September 12, 2021

01 Individuals are capable of growing up, putting their childish past behind them and being mature in the way they deal with their life. Not so nations. Where nations are concerned, immature individuals pursue military and political power to compensate for a gross absence of maturity and character, and we get what we have onContinue reading “September 12, 2021”

September 11, 2021

01 Things are the way they are because it is in someone’s best interest that they stay this way. Who benefits from the way things are? Find those who do, and you know why things are as they are. What to do about it is “complicated,” as everyone who knows says. “Complicated” means keeping thingsContinue reading “September 11, 2021”

September 10, 2021

01 Things are in sync even when they are out of sync. Exploding stars are the kettle drums in the orchestra creating the music of the spheres. You might love Yellowstone now, but you would not enjoyed being around when it was formed. Much of the park is the caldera of a super volcano. TerribleContinue reading “September 10, 2021”