Author Archives: jimwdollar

01 There is the authentic and the inauthentic, the genuine and the sham, the fraudulent, the lie. There is our original nature, the face that was ours before we were born, and there is the shoe that does not fit, the life we are told to live, the person the culture requires us to be.Continue reading “February 28, 2022”

01 There are so many ways of missing the point. Of missing the way. Of not getting it. And then, there is President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the people of Ukraine. If they can get it right, why can’t everybody? –0– 02 It is raining and 34 degrees outside. I am inside with a fire andContinue reading “February 27, 2022”

01 “There is nothing to it but to do it” (Maya Angelou). And that’s the hardest thing to do. Nothing. Try to do nothing. Try being empty in the right kind of way. How long can you sit in the stillness and the silence? How long can you wait? How long before “This isn’t gettingContinue reading “February 26, 2022”

01 Where is the incentive to live with all our heart in what we are doing? To live like a dog wags its tail? Like a child with an ice cream cone gets to work? What is keeping us from living that way? Giving our best moment-to-moment? Not holding anything back because what we areContinue reading “February 25, 2022”

01 We go without weapons into the deed that must be done in each situation as it arises. As vulnerable as a baby in a manger, or a man on a cross. Looking only for what we need to do what needs us to do it. That’s all Aristotle had, and Jesus, and Gandhi, andContinue reading “February 24, 2022”

01 Our life elicits our original nature if we let it. We interfere with the natural process at work in the unfolding of ourselves within the life we are living by having desires that are at cross purposes with the flow of life and being in accord with the Tao, the Way of Life andContinue reading “February 23, 2022”

01 I don’t know what your ambitions are, but you can’t do better than being an original human being. A woman or a man who is “one just come,” right out of the womb, so to speak, to be just who they are in each situation as it arises, with no agendas, no expectations, noContinue reading “February 22, 2022”

01 It matters what we do and how we do it. That may be the only thing that matters. Get that down, and what remains to be done? Too many people are wrong about what they think is right. As long as people can be wrong about what they think is right, we will haveContinue reading “February 20, 2022”

01 The tasks of life must be attended. The stages of life must be completed. Our Great Idea is to opt out of both. It started with Adam and Eve, which are totally imaginary and symbolic, expressing as they do the essence, the heart, of being human, the legacy of humanity through the ages: “AvoidContinue reading “February 19, 2022”

01 How does Tevya (Fiddler on the Roof) make it in New York without his horse and wagon, cow and chickens, his children and his community? Tevya and Golda step off the boat and into a land that is foreign on all levels. The language, the money, the noise, the concrete and steel… If onlyContinue reading “February 18, 2022”