Author Archives: jimwdollar

01 We keep looking for something to make it easy to grow up, while avoiding the matter until we find what we are looking for. All it takes is standing up and doing what needs to be done. Time after time. Without emotional response. We spill the milk. We clean the milk up. Period. NoContinue reading “August 09, 2021”

01 Psyche-Tao-Mind-God (And where do those lines lie?) don’t seem to have any idea of what they are doing. The old Shaman and Taoists, who got it started 5,000 years or so BCE had no idea of a point. Their basic thrust was, “Don’t try to make the world better, just sick to the WayContinue reading “August 07, 2021”

01 There is what we do to pay the bills, and there is what we pay the bills to do. Which is the most important? Which is the easiest? Everybody thinks money is the most important thing. Few people have a clear understanding of what money is for. Of what bills are the right bills,Continue reading “August 06, 2021”

01 How do you maintain/restore your balance and harmony? How do you serve/sustain your spirit, energy, vitality? These are the five indicators of a life well-lived. Without them in place, you are faking it, grinding it out, looking for escape and refuge, hoping for deliverance, wishing you were dead, or that somebody else was. TheContinue reading “August 04, 2021”

01 For forty years and six months I talked to people about God (I was a minister in the Presbyterian Church [USA]). There was a problem. Most of the people who paid me to talk about God, didn’t want me to say anything they hadn’t already heard. “Why don’t you talk to us about thingsContinue reading “August 03, 2021”

01 Your conflicts are killing you. The typical way we deal with conflicts is killing us. We typically deny them, run from them, escape them, ignore them, pretend they don’t exist, and create conflicts trying to get away from our conflicts. Conflicts multiply that way. Pot and alcohol are making things worse by helping usContinue reading “August 02, 2021”

01 In any situation, there is what needs to be done and what needs not to be done. All we have to do is be right about which is which, and do what needs to be done, without a thought for what is in it for us. Our place is to be what the situationContinue reading “August 01, 2021”