Author Archives: jimwdollar

01 Prosperity is having what we need to do what needs to be done. We think of prosperity as having more than we need so that we do not have to do anything. We think having it made is not having to do anything we don’t want to do. We think “being free” is beingContinue reading “September 25, 2021”

01 Everybody wants a better life. That’s where the similarity ends. Everybody has a different idea of what that means and how to achieve it. Which results in the mess everything is in. A lot of people think having their way would result in a better life. A lot of people think having more moneyContinue reading “September 24, 2021”

01 Having expectations, having desires, having resentments, having fears, having anger, having duties and responsibilities keep us from being alive. Being alive is being being balanced and in harmony with ourselves, our life, and one another, living with sincerity and integrity, having energy, spirit and vitality, and acting in the service of what needs toContinue reading “September 23, 2021”

01 As we reduce the noise and the complexity in our life, we are likely to discover there isn’t much there. Take away the drama and what’s left? This is a stark realization of how little we are doing with the time left for living. And, it is a call to spend it with thingsContinue reading “September 22, 2021”

01 To know what it is time for– and not for– is true knowing. One time is not as good as another. What is it time for here and now? What is it not time for? Teachers cannot teach us these things. Books are of no help. Videos and movies are useless. Lectures and sermons,Continue reading “September 21, 2021”

01 We have to be empty even of the desire to be empty. That is the contradiction at the heart of life and being. Live the contradictions! “If I contradict myself, then I contradict myself!” said Walt Whitman in Song of Myself. Though that isn’t the exact quote. That’s another thing, trying to be exactContinue reading “September 20, 2021”

01 When we fall in love with someone, we are falling in love with the aspects of ourselves– our ideal self–our original self– that we see reflected in the other person. They remind us of the us we don’t know we are. “I see a bit of me in you, but that’s not all IContinue reading “September 19, 2021”

01 Light acts like a particle and acts like a wave, depending on what the occasion requires. Light is a contradiction in terms. So are you. So am I. So is life. So is the cosmos. So is truth… It is Yin and Yang all the way down! This means we are free to beContinue reading “September 17, 2021”

01 The forces at work in our lives are like gravity and love in that they are always there in the background behind the scenes holding things up, keeping things going, animating things, directing things, making possible all that is possible, and may yet be– needing only cooperation and assistance to make it so. NoneContinue reading “September 15, 2021”