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October 05, 2021

01 Rumi said, “Darkness is the cradle of light.” The Jewel is in the lotus, and the lotus is in the slime. In time, the Jewel is in the slime– IS the slime. And the slime brings forth the Jewel. In the far extreme lies the opposite extreme. The more different we become, the moreContinue reading “October 05, 2021”

October 04, 2021

01 What needs to happen in a situation becomes apparent in time. If we wait too long to be sure, however, it becomes what should have happened there. The time to act is a tight window, and we have to be attentive in an interested kind of way, and not in a panic-driven, obsessive/compulsive kindContinue reading “October 04, 2021”

October 03, 2021

01 Resonance leads the way. Reason, logic, thinking, planning, scheming… not so much. Wanting? Not at all. We can want what we have no business having. How do we know? We don’t know how we know! Knowing WHAT we know is all we need to know! Sit still. Be quiet. Pay attention—- to what arisesContinue reading “October 03, 2021”

October 02, 2021

01 In every situation there is what needs to happen, what can happen, what will not happen, and what happens. What determines what happens is a matter of time and chance, which the good book says “happens to us all.” What it doesn’t say is “all the time.” We are here, now, by virtue ofContinue reading “October 02, 2021”

October 01, 2021

01 We are built for a certain way of life. Our integrity and our sincerity depend upon– and therefore require– our being aligned with, and living in accord with, the life that we are built to live, the life that waits on us to live it. We cannot live just any life, and fit, andContinue reading “October 01, 2021”

2021 D

This is the placeholder home page for the Fourth Quarter of 2021. Finding our way into alignment with the way that is our way is a matter of looking and listening to the point of seeing and hearing– to the point of realization, which basically is knowing yes and no when we see it. WhenContinue reading “2021 D”

October 2021

01 Stillness and silence invite emptiness– invite us to empty ourselves of the clutter, complexity and noise that make stillness and silence impossible– and provide the atmosphere necessary for rumination and reflection, listening and looking, inquiry and investigation which lead to new realizations, and open the way to transformation and redirection. Everything hinges on regularContinue reading “October 2021”

September 30, 2021

01 Live to be good for nothing. Live to do what is good whether it does any good or not. Live to be who Jesus was, who, when he died, left more evil in the world than was there when he was born. Who left more poor and hungry people in the world than wereContinue reading “September 30, 2021”

September 29, 2021

01 There are things we need to do without knowing why. When those things come along do them! Don’t delay looking for reasons! Don’t talk yourself out of doing them because you can’t explain doing them! Having to give people “one good reason why” you are doing what needs to be done has kept moreContinue reading “September 29, 2021”

September 28, 2021

01 We worry about what is going to happen to us and those we love. We hope for the best, and fear the worst, and lose the time that is at hand wishing and dreading. Now is the only time there is. Now is the time to let ourselves out of the box. To openContinue reading “September 28, 2021”

September 27, 2021

01 Where do you belong? Where do you have no business being? Where do you feel at home? Where are you out of place? How do you spend your time in ways that are right for you? How do you spend your time in ways that are wrong for you? Are you going with theContinue reading “September 27, 2021”

September 26, 2021

01 Sit still. Be quiet. Pay attention. To all that arises in the silence. Be curious about what catches your eye. See where it goes. Every day. Throughout the day. You are getting to the bottom of it. Of it all. Especially of YOU. The curiosity part is the best part. If you are End-driven,Continue reading “September 26, 2021”