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March 22-A, 2023

What catches your eye? Sit with that, exploring the connection. What does that reveal to you about you? What has been your relationship with the things that catch your eye? Water does it for me. And cypress trees. Give me water and cypress trees and forget about me. I’ll be fine. Where are you fine?Continue reading “March 22-A, 2023”

March 21-B, 2023

The flow of energy through life was called “The Tao” in 500-and-earlier BCE, for lack of a better term. “Tao” is gender-neutral and free of the cumbersome baggage of theology, and cosmology, and astrology, and all of the other “logy’s” we have developed over time to control/master/explain/exploit the mystery at the heart of life andContinue reading “March 21-B, 2023”

March 21-A, 2023

If we are in tune with the flow of energy that draws us to some things and repels us from others, we will always be off limits to the noise/complexity/drama that diverts the rest of the world from its appointed tasks, and pipes the tune that leads it into the wasteland of forgotten purposes andContinue reading “March 21-A, 2023”

March 20-B, 2023

When we have nowhere to turn, that leaves us with turning to ourselves– to our original nature and our innate virtues, the things we are good for, the things we do best, the things people turn to us for. We turn to ourselves for the same things. To ground us, steady us, stabilize us forContinue reading “March 20-B, 2023”

March 20-A, 2023

We work to keep it going for the good of all concerned. The good of all is our social contract with one another. It is essential that we make it, and keep it–no matter what. No matter what we think of each other, we work to keep it going for the good of all concerned.Continue reading “March 20-A, 2023”

March 19-B, 2023

What do you love to do? What do you do best? What do you spend your time doing? How does what you love to do and what you do best fit into your life? Getting the ratios right is your primary duty and obligation. Why say more? Why do I need to say anything atContinue reading “March 19-B, 2023”

March 19-A, 2023

The natural world follows the path of energy through the seasons and rhythms of the spheres. Our own nature is equipped to follow the same path– “the path of heart” is the path of energy flowing through us, connecting us with the way that is our natural way. But. We have our ideas about howContinue reading “March 19-A, 2023”

March 18-B, 2023

Go with the flow of energy guiding you through your life to life spilling over, pouring out as blessing and grace upon you and all those who come your way. Follow the flow of energy as it leads you where you need to be, trusting your sense of Yes and No from here to thereContinue reading “March 18-B, 2023”

March 18-A, 2023

The heroes in Jesus’ view were the prodigal son’s father, the good Samaritan, the sower who went out to sow, the gardener who said, “Let me tend the fig tree, and give it another year.” The people who shared a cup of water with the thirsty, a loaf of bread with the hungry, who visitedContinue reading “March 18-A, 2023”

March 17-B, 2023

We live surrounded by great mysteries which we never pause to recognize, consider, wonder about, as though we have something to do that is more important. Did someone just say, “More Important”? What an amazing coincidence! I was just thinking “more important”! And wondering about how we go about determining what is important and whatContinue reading “March 17-B, 2023”

March 17-A, 2023

Money is a tool for making/buying the tools we need to do what is ours to do in in serving/expressing our original nature and our innate virtues/specialties in doing what needs to be done in each situation as it rises. But who understands our mission in these terms? We use money to pass a goodContinue reading “March 17-A, 2023”

March 16-B, 2023

Jesus said, “It comes down to this: You have to care without caring. Here’s how it works: You have to live as though you care about everything, without caring about anything.” (From “The Unsaid Sayings of Jesus, Vol. 1”) He meant that we have to live like we have a personal stake in all thatContinue reading “March 16-B, 2023”