Author Archives: jimwdollar

Wu-Wei is the Tao at work in the Cosmos, getting things done without doing anything. The way a glacier moves, or melts. The way water creates the Grand Canyon over time. The way the Appalachian Mountains produce Balds where trees do not grow. The way things are, and also are. Who knows how? Or why?Continue reading “October 01, 2026”

The Tao is the natural flow of things, how things are, the way things are expected to be. Being aligned with the Tao is being at home with how things are done and are fluent with how things follow each other and able to dance with any tune the band might play next. Being comfortableContinue reading “October, 2026”

James Joyce said the “Secret Cause” of our death is the driving force of our life. The thing that is most true about us and most valuable to us will be what kills us. Maybe it is our impatience. Our being in a hurry. Our failure/refusal to take our time with anything. I like toContinue reading “September 30, 2026”

Where would you like to spend the rest of your life? It’s looking out the window for me, and I don’t care where the window is. I can look out the window anywhere, which means I am perfectly content to be where I am. I think that means having it made. Like a cork onContinue reading “September 29, 2026”

There is how things are, and there is how we want things to be. And how accommodating we can be is the story that tells the tale.

I am always surprised by the number of people who cannot take “No” for an answer. They ask, “Why not?”, as though it matters. As though no one can be ignored without a satisfactory reason. I refuse to give them one. “What’s the reason there has to be a reason?” I say. “What do youContinue reading “September 27, 2026”

It is up to us, what we do with what’s what and what’s called for in each situation as it arises every day of our life. We are the only thing standing between ourselves and the deep blue sea. And we are uniquely equipped to deal with whatever comes our way. Each one of usContinue reading “September 25, 2025”

Knowing we we are and what we are about is a matter of looking, listening, seeing, hearing, tuning in to what catches our eye, becomes a recurring theme throughout our life. Being who we are and doing what we are about is taking up the adventure of being alive and seeing where it goes. OurContinue reading “September 24, 2026”

The return to silence is the key to finding what is missing from our life. The right way, the right path, things our body knows that we keep getting confused with what we want, with how we want things to be, with how we wish things were. And THIS isn’t it! Gene Gendlin with “Focusing,”Continue reading “September 23, 2026”

Listening to what our body is saying is our guide along the way. With me, it started with looking out the window. I took up the practice in the 5th Grade, and it is still with me. I take the window with me wherever I go, and know how to drop into the silence anywhere,Continue reading “September 22, 2026”

Greed, Hatred, Fear, Anger are not helpful characteristics in those holding public office, but it happens often enough to make psychological testing a prerequisite for all those running for office. The higher the office, the more essential the testing. I wish we could enforce it retroactively. Don’t you?