Author Archives: jimwdollar

01 Getting it right is crucial for NASA to fly a helicopter on Mars. A lot of things have to happen precisely at the right time in the right way for that to happen. Compare that to, say, going to the grocery store and coming back with everything you needed when you left. Our lifeContinue reading “May 21, 2021”

01 It is difficult to find places where we are free to ask the questions that beg to be asked, where it is safe to say what needs to be said, where we are encouraged to step beyond the normal and customary, where we are allowed to be who we are. AA and Quaker MeetingsContinue reading “May 20, 2021”

01 Shel Silverstein nailed it with his, “Some kind of help is the kind of help that help is all about– and some kind of help is the kind of help we all could do without!” I miss Shel Silverstein. He was the kind of help we need in our life. What we don’t needContinue reading “May 19, 2021”

01 The end of civilization is a lack of self-restraint. We have to know where “good enough” becomes “over the top,” or, “too much of a good thing,” and stop before we go that far. Knowing when to quit is the hallmark of success on every level. “The balance of nature” is maintained by theContinue reading “May 18, 2021”

01 We spend very little time living the moment as the moment needs to be lived. We live the moment to get what we want, or to avoid what we don’t want. Exploiting, manipulating, contriving, forcing, striving, managing, positioning ourselves to profit from the moment and gain great benefit and personal advantage to apply inContinue reading “May 17, 2021”

01 Whatever the question, the answer is always, “Back to the silence!” The silence knows the answer to everything. The silence knows all. Everything that has been added to the world over time– the things that were not original with the beginning– emerged from the silence. The silence is the origin of everything. The dualityContinue reading “May 16, 2021”

01 Experience validates experience when we are open to experience and to The Silence, listening/watching for what arises, emerges, appears, occurs to us in the silence to affirm or question our interpretation of our experience. We are self-correcting, self-guided, self-validating, self-conscious, self-regulating, self-developing, self-enhancing self-determining vehicles of life and being. But, there is a catch.Continue reading “May 15, 2012”

01 What do we make of it? That’s the question. What does it mean? For us? To us? What does life mean? What does our life mean? What do we mean? To us? For us? What is meaningful and what is not? How meaningfully do we live? How meaningful is our life? How meaningful isContinue reading “May 11, 2021”

01 It is all useless, pointless, hopeless, meaningless, futile, stupid and absurd– and coming to a very bad end: We all are going to die! And, therefore… What? And, therefore, what? What is the meaning of meaningless? What do we do in response to it? In response to meaningless? In response to the meaning ofContinue reading “May 10, 2021”