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April 05, 2021

01 We die because it becomes too much trouble to keep going. We Peter-out. We dwindle down to nothing. Our knees go. Our eyesight goes. Our teeth go. Our hearing goes… The list goes on and on. And we get to the place of saying the hell with it. I’m suggesting that longevity is notContinue reading “April 05, 2021”

April 04, 2021

01 When you are thinking, also be thinking about your thinking. To not be thinking about your thinking is to be swept away by your thinking, carried off, into emotional fits of rage, or terror, or remorse and guilt– possessed by your thoughts and your feelings about your thoughts to the point of losing allContinue reading “April 04, 2021”

April 03, 2021

01 The impulse of our original nature comes to us in the silence of watching, listening– which characterizes the Aborigines’ walkabouts, and the Native American vision quests, and our own search for the source of life and being– to guide our boat on its path through the sea. “The path that can be discerned isContinue reading “April 03, 2021”

April 02, 2021

01 The natural world is “Thus Come,” just as it is, without pretensions or aspirations, looking only for what needs to be done in each situation as it arises, and rising to meet the occasion with what it has to work with, letting the outcome be the outcome, situation by situation, day by day, forContinue reading “April 02, 2021”

April 01, 2021

01 Sit quietly in the stillness of eternal silence and see what is central to you and is the source of your life– to the wonder and joy of being alive. Seek the heart of you and what you do with all your heart. Separate your life into what is central for you, what isContinue reading “April 01, 2021”

April 2021

This is the parent page of post I will make during the month of April in 2021.

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This is the parent page of all of my posts made during the second quarter of 2021. May they speak to you of all the things you need most to hear, and transform your life in ways that serve your life in the deepest, truest and best sense of the term, forever! Amen! May itContinue reading “2021-B”

March 31, 2021

01 The deeper we get into truth, the more horrible it becomes. The more horrible, the more detestable, the more disgusting, the more despicable, the more despised, the more hated, the more true. This is the side of truth they never tell us about. They never get further into it than, “You shall know theContinue reading “March 31, 2021”

March 30, 2021

01 Look for things that invite reverie, that are fascinating in their own right, splendid, stately, elegant, grand and carry you away. Live intentionally, intent on being carried away. How long has it been? Visit an art museum slowly. Go to a concert. Take a walk in the woods by a lake. Put yourself inContinue reading “March 30, 2021”

March 29, 2021

01 We can talk about the joy of life all we want, but what keeps us going is mostly inertia. “We just go.” “Just going” is mostly enough. It got us here anyway. It can be depended on to get us to where “it all just peters out.” You could make a case for allContinue reading “March 29, 2021”

March 28, 2021

01 Joseph Campbell would say, “Truth calls to us from far in the back of the darkest corner of the deepest cave we most don’t want to enter.” And we would reply, “Yeah, we know. And we aren’t going there!” That’s what we mean. What we would actually say is, “What are you talking about,Continue reading “March 28, 2021”

March 27, 2021

01 The ruthlessness of fascism has to be met with the ruthlessness of compassion. Compassion has to be as ruthless in the service of the good as fascism is in the service of evil. Fascism has turned compassion against itself by telling people of color, for instance, that they “just have to be patient.” CompassionContinue reading “March 27, 2021”