Author Archives: jimwdollar

01 We need help with the tasks of life, and we need to be helping one another with the tasks of life. And we have no idea what the tasks of life are. The primary task of life is knowing who we are and what we are about. It is easier to go at itContinue reading “March 25, 2021”

01 We have to do it because it needs to be done, and not because of what we stand to gain from doing it. Intrinsic and extrinsic weigh in at this point, and we cannot be swayed by the value the deed has for us personally. We have no stake in the matter. Is itContinue reading “March 24, 2021”

01 We are always “so close and yet so far away.” It is the recurring theme of our life– all of our lives, worldwide– over time. All it takes is a slight shift in perspective. We are looking at it like this, and we need to look at it like that. It is only aContinue reading “March 23, 2021”

01 What is the nature of your conflict? William Blake reminded us, “Without contrary, there is no progression.” Yin and Yang go back to the beginning of time, if not beyond. We live to integrate, incarnate, express, exhibit, bring forth, know and make known the contradictions which define us and make us known. On theContinue reading “March 22, 2021”

01 –0– 02 –0– 03 04 –0– 05 –0– This is from 11/26/2007: I do so much better when I’m not forced to do what I’m doing. Bet you do, too. The “natural self” is what socialization and acculturation take away from us during the early years of childhood, and it’s what we spend ourContinue reading “March 21, 2020”

05 Live to be free of wants and wanting. What does wanting know? Does wanting know where we are better off? Where we are best off? Does wanting know what is in our best interest? Does wanting care about our best interest? Could wanting make a winning case for itself when it comes to servingContinue reading “March 20, 2021”

02 The way we go about our business impacts, for better or worse, the way other people go about their business. The way we live encourages or discourages those around us. We live for one another as well as for ourselves. We have responsibilities that extend far beyond us, to encompass the entire planet. WhatContinue reading “March 19, 2021,”

04 Regardless of the concern, dilemma, problem, question, uncertainty… sit with it quietly, waiting, watching, to see what arises, emerges, beckons, calls, occurs, dawns, summons, demands, insists, requires… out of the silence. What you do with it is entirely up to you. –0– 03 Do not look beyond the moment. Live to be what theContinue reading “March 18, 2021”

05 We are here to love life and pass it on. We love life by doing what we love. We pass it on by helping others do what they love. Is this simple, or, as they say, what? “How can I help?” is the question we ask of each situation as it arises. What willContinue reading “March 17, 2021”

03 Joseph Campbell said that aging is a process of refinement. Over time we settle on what is important, filter out the nonsense and the drama, and spend our last years with what matters most. What that is will be different for each of us, but all of us know what is important to us,Continue reading “March 16, 2021”

04 There are situations aplenty that we cannot make better, but there are no situations we cannot make worse by the way we respond to them. We hold the power to make every situation as it arises as good as it can be by the way we respond to it. No super-hero ever had moreContinue reading “March 15, 2021”