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July 05, 2021

01 There is balance and harmony. There is resistance and assistance. There is what we do to pay the bills, and there is what we pay the bills to do. Three pairs of choices. How we work out the ratios among the three tells the tale. The tale is the one we are spinning withContinue reading “July 05, 2021”

July 04, 2021

01 Democracy is a contradiction in terms. Everything is. Taoism is the only way of living I know that admits it upfront: “The Tao that can be said/defined/told is not the eternal Tao.” “We cannot say what we know and what we can say is too contradictory to be helpful, but we will say thatContinue reading “July 04, 2021”

July 03, 2021

01 Self-awareness, self-discipline, and self-sacrifice are the sine-qua-non of the way to The Way. Sitting in the silence for twenty minutes at least once a day. Practicing being open to and aware of the present moment (And watching all of the Jon Kabat-Zinn Youtube videos (The shortest ones first) to prepare yourself for the practice).Continue reading “July 03, 2021”

July 02, 2021

01 If I were writing the script, on Judgment Day we would have to forgive ourselves. And live with what we have done and failed to do throughout forever. I would call it The Reckoning. Or, maybe, Coming Clean. We would have to make it right with ourselves. It would be heaven and it wouldContinue reading “July 02, 2021”

July 01, 2021

01 Transforming our relationship with ourselves requires us to recognize the importance– or, better, the necessity– of establishing a collaborative connection between the conscious and unconscious (So-called, not because it is unconscious, but because we are not consciously aware of it, and it is our place to become as conscious of it as we areContinue reading “July 01, 2021”

July 2021

This is the parent page of posts I publish during July of 2021.

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This is the parent page of all of my posts made during the third quarter of 2021. May they speak to you of things you need most to hear, and transform your life in ways that serve your life in the deepest, truest and best sense of the term, now and forever! Our work isContinue reading “2021-C”

June 30, 2021

01 Everything works together to produce who we are– to bring us forth, draw us out, as “one thus come,” “just so,” precisely right and fitting to the occasion, every occasion, along The Way. We only have to believe it is so, and live in compliance, cooperation, alignment with it, allegiance, loyalty, devotion and dedicationContinue reading “June 30, 2021”

June 29, 2021

01 Knowing when to quit is knowing when its done. And that is as important as knowing what to do, and when, and where, and how to do it. Put those five elements together, and we have a life well-lived, regardless of what we achieve, accomplish, or succeed in getting done. Adam and Eve broughtContinue reading “June 29, 2021”

June 28, 2021

01 Courage is a function of what needs to be done. Our life calls us forth. We are here to do the bidding of time and circumstance, time and place, here and now. Too many of us spend our time trying to set things up, get things in place, to have it made. We thinkContinue reading “June 28, 2021”

June 27, 2021

01 When we care about everything, when it all is important, we are lost– as lost as we would be if we did not care about anything, if we thought nothing mattered. The trick is to know what is important, what matters most– to care about the things that are primary, that are essential. AndContinue reading “June 27, 2021”

June 26, 2021

01 What’s worth our time? We live to find out. By now (This is my 77th June), I have ruled out a lot of things. Articulating the truth of the moment remains high on the list. Saying what’s what, and looking for what needs to be done about it, is my favorite thing. It’s beenContinue reading “June 26, 2021”