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March 13, 2021

02 The most any guru, master, teacher or friend can do for you is to tell you: “Don’t listen to me! Listen to you!” And: “LISTEN TO ME when I tell you, ‘Don’t listen to me. Listen to YOU!’!” Everything rides on you listening to you, and knowing what to listen to and what toContinue reading “March 13, 2021”

March 12, 2021

03 We know when things are balanced and harmonious, and we know when things are unsettled, chaotic and out of control. We know when we are fighting with our life, struggling to get things into place, and when we are at peace with our life, lolling in “the land of gentle breezes where the peacefulContinue reading “March 12, 2021”

March 11, 2021

02 “It will all be fine as soon as everything starts going my way, and all these people get out of my way, and stop making noise and stirring up dust, and clamoring about getting their way!” This has become the international creed for all people everywhere. It is “my way” that is in theContinue reading “March 11, 2021”

March 10, 2021

05 Our pain is our joy. This is the reverse of the Buddhist position: All of life is suffering, woe, woe! That is just one way of looking at it, and the wrong way, at that! Of Jesus it was said, “For the joy that was set before him, he endured the cross…” And heContinue reading “March 10, 2021”

March 09, 2021

03 Treat wherever you are as though it is exactly where you want to be, and do everything that is called for there precisely as it needs to be done for as long as you are there. This is one way of “turning the light around.” Turning the light around means finding on the insideContinue reading “March 09, 2021”

March 08, 2021

04 I feel sorry for whomever it is keeping me company– keeping us company– as an inner presence, as our best invisible friend, on our way through our life. That is the presence that keeps giving us tips, hints, nudges… that works to wake us up and turn us toward the light, and we keepContinue reading “March 08, 2021”

March 07, 2021

03 The people who say, “Nothing matters!” say it in a way that suggests it matters that nothing matters. What matters, matters! Sit down with yourself and ferret out what matters to you. Then stand up, step back into your life, and live there as though what matters to you matters!!! Put passion into yourContinue reading “March 07, 2021”

March 06, 2021

04 Stop thinking about what you want and how to get it. Start thinking about what is called for, here and now, and how you might rise to the occasion and offer what is needed with the gifts, virtues, genius, daemon, abilities, interests, aptitudes, etc. that are yours to share– without regard for what youContinue reading “March 06, 2021”

March 05, 2021

02 I’ve been wondering lately about what’s working. Government is not working anywhere. Democracy is not working in the US or the UK. The GOP is the most dysfunctional political party I have ever lived with. I could go on. And on. About what is not working. Gravity is working. Music is working. Poetry isContinue reading “March 05, 2021”

March 04, 2021

03 Anything properly considered becomes a portkey to realization and transformation. A horoscope, a fortune cookie (The fortune or the cookie), a horseshoe nail… The key is a meditative perspective and a problem or a pressing question, and the probing inquiry: “How does this connect with that?” Sit with the question as a novice mightContinue reading “March 04, 2021”

March 03, 2021

03 We are looking for what? What would it take to be satisfied and content? What person, living or dead, actual or fictional, is your ideal of having lived the way you would like to live? So that, at the end, you could be proud of the life you lived? Keep that person before youContinue reading “March 03, 2021”

March 02, 2021

03 If you don’t know what I mean, you can’t expect to understand what I’m saying. We get to meanings through the process of living our lives. By the track our thoughts take, the questions we ask, the books we read, the conversations we engage in, and those we overhear… The experience of life leadsContinue reading “March 02, 2021”