Author Archives: jimwdollar

01 Balance and harmony, sincerity and integrity, spirit, energy and vitality are seven words without reference to anything actual, tangible, material, concrete– capable of being held, touched, smelled, weighed, measured, acquired, amassed, horded… They refer to states of being. And there are no steady states of being. Being is being in motion, and being atContinue reading “August 31, 2021”

01 Being vaccinated enhances freedom on every level. COVID is the end of freedom on all levels. This is all we need to know about this matter. And all we need to say. –0– 02 “May it be well with you and all those who see as you do.” That is the best we canContinue reading “August 30, 2021”

01 Wu Wei is a Taoist term. For action that is a spontaneous response to the situation as it arises– a response that is not thought into being, but lived into being at the appointed time and place of its occurring. It is doing the right thing at the right time in the right placeContinue reading “August 29, 2021”

01 Putting ourselves in accord with the way things are, and with the way things need to be– because that is the way they truly need to be, and has nothing whatsoever to do with how we want them to be– is the work of our life. We do this through emptiness and silence. EmptyingContinue reading “August 28, 2021”

01 Show of hands! Raise your hand if you hate your job and your life. Look to see if your hand is up. If it isn’t, you are in denial, and possibly high. The world is in the state it is in because people hate their job and their life. And are taking it outContinue reading “August 27, 2021”

01 Find the flow of your life, sense the movement– or the blockage– and become curious about the state of flow here and now. Courage assists flow, fear resists it. Anger throttles it. Compassion creates options and possibilities. Receiving the moment with compassion opens us to the possibilities of flow inherent in each situation asContinue reading “August 26, 2021”

01 Begin paying attention to your situations, noticing when one goes over into another. Our situations carry us with them, becoming our life, so that our life is simply a string of situations, one going over into the next, from birth to death. Each situation has its own movement, its own pace and timing, withContinue reading “August 25, 2021”

01 Leverage in any situation is used to lever the good of the situation into place. Every situation needs something. To step into each situation endeavoring to serve our advantage, our good, our gain, our benefit, our desire is to do grave harm not only to that situation but also to all situations which flowContinue reading “August 24, 2021”

01 When the destabilizing forces roll through your world, how do you re-stabilize? What do you do to restore balance and harmony? I wait to find the next thing that needs to be done and do it. And then find the next thing that needs to be done and do it. And on and onContinue reading “August 23, 2021”