Author Archives: jimwdollar

Growing up is about accommodating ourselves to our life. Acquiescing. Moving over. Making room. Graciously. Kindly. Gently. Humanely. A life well-lived is lived by not being a jerk. Anyone should be able to handle that, but evidently not. And it is my most difficult social skill to master. I manage it by spending copious amountsContinue reading “August 18, 2026”

Being okay with doing what is called for in each situation as it arises is having it made. Being fine with not having our way is the ideal method for handling whatever comes our way. Being able to take no for an answer calms the water, smooths the way.

If you aren’t staying current with me and my work with Jesus and the Tao on my blog, Tao-Psyche-Intuition.com, you are missing the latest I have to offer on the interaction between the God of Theology and the God Before and Beyond Theology (Also known as “That Which Has Always Been Called God” everywhere throughoutContinue reading “August 16, 2026”

Mystery is understanding, understanding is mystery. Thinking we know reveals how little we know, and how little help knowing makes. Sitting in the darkness waiting for the light to enlighten us reveals the path to awakening as darkness within darkness and true knowledge is knowing that we do not know–and letting that be that becauseContinue reading “August 15, 2026”

You wouldn’t watch a movie about my life. I have barely been able to live it. I don’t know why it is still going. I will enter my 83rd year in January and I do not see my entertainment value improving with age. Old age is not built for monologue. One day is much likeContinue reading “August 14, 2026”

We aren’t going to make things right in this world. But we can make things as right as we can make them, and let that be that. And let nature take its course. Doing as much is what Lao Tzu advised in the Tao Te Ching: “Do your work and stand aside, let nature takeContinue reading “August 13, 2026”

One way of finding The Way is allowing The Way to find us. One way to do that is to not care if we find The Way or not. To stop looking for The Way and simply focus on where our true interests lie. Allowing our interests to lead the way may reveal that ourContinue reading “August 12, 2026”

This is a snapshot of life as it is and as it ought to be. This is the natural world being natural. Doing its “thing.” Being what it is. With everything minding its own business, tending its own affairs. Everything is exactly as it needs to be. And the photograph is my way of honoringContinue reading “August 11, 2026”

I have no idea where this image was taken. If you have been there before, I would appreciate your telling me where I was. I received notice today that my driver’s license can be renewed for four years through the mail. I will grab that opportunity, thinking this will be the last one. I stillContinue reading “August 11, 2026”

The thing that matters most to me today is synchronicity. Coincidence that matters. That is built into the framework of existence, without which nothing would be. Which is to suggest that nothing happens for a reason and the old Taoists were right 5,000 years BCE in saying all of this is the result of “circumstancesContinue reading “August 10, 2026”

Living to see what catches my eye and calls my name is my primary motivation. I discover who I am by way of all that attracts me and holds my interest. “What will it be today?” I wonder, getting out of bed.

Our experience with life is the source of our beliefs about God. Early humans explained lightening and earth quakes as having their origin with an angry God and sought to appease that God with sacrifices and worship and things took off from there to the Roman Catholic Church and the Westminster Confession of Faith, andContinue reading “August 09, 2026”