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July, 2025

Growing up and doing what is called for in each situation as it arises is all there is to it. All there is to our life. It is more difficult than it might appear to be.Growing is the hardest part. We all grow up against our will. That is what growing up is. Learning toContinue reading “July, 2025”

July, 2025

The best thing we can do for ourselvesis to be quiet in a routine and regular way.When Jesus said, “Pray always,” he meant, “Live out of the silence.”In the silence, we are in the presence of What Has Always Been Called “God.” The silence is the bridge between worlds–the world of conscious reality and theContinue reading “July, 2025”

June 30,2025

Waiting to know IT when we see it,and trusting ourselves to know what to do about it when we do–and in the meantime what do we do while we wait?Waiting is IT for me,and watching,seeing, hearing, knowing, doing, being.That has been IT,and I have had a good time doing IT.Making this photograph,these photographs, was aContinue reading “June 30,2025”

June 29, 2025

Buddhism makes a thing about non-duality. Taoism makes a thing about Yin/Yang. Zen is more Taoist than Buddhism is, yet Zen-Buddhism is a Buddhist thing. Buddhism is the most self-contradictory religion I have ever met. Which makes it the most encased in denial religion I have ever met, and yet, get this, Buddhism is allContinue reading “June 29, 2025”

June 28, 2025

Orthodox Christianity and Gnostic Christianity form the Yin/Yang combination of the Christian Religion. In so doing, they represent Taoism at its best, balancing each other and offering the full edition of truth to meet the needs of the viewing audience. Something for everybody who knows what they are looking at (who knows what they needContinue reading “June 28, 2025”

June 27, 2025

Sit still, be quiet, see what emerges from the silence and how it suggests what is called for here, now–and how we might arise and do what needs to be done,when, where and how it needs to be done, and where that leads.Allowing inner to direct us to outer puts us on the pathof findingContinue reading “June 27, 2025”

June 26, 2025

To live from our center, core, ground, foundation, truth would mean what? Around what do we coalesce? Our identity flows from what? When we act spontaneously, without thinking, planning scheming, who do we show ourselves to be? When have we surprised ourselves by saying/doing something? That is who we are. Who is that? Make thatContinue reading “June 26, 2025”

June 25, 2025

Gnosticism was well ahead of its time.The first and second centuries CE were not ready to hear,”We all are God! We only need to wake up to this truthand be who we are!”And the people who saw things this way then were martyred, or murdered, for their service to the truth–as Jesus had foretold thatContinue reading “June 25, 2025”

June 24, 2025

It comes down to being who we are, doing what is ours to do.Sounds simple enough. Who couldn’t do that? I would like to know.My hunch is that integrity, sincerity, authenticity are rare across the races over time. What’s your bet for the most authentic race (And the most authentic species, while we are atContinue reading “June 24, 2025”

June 23, 2025

Making a montage of the wisdom outlets of history produces a “single story” of what it takes to “right the world” over the course of several lifetimes. The elements required read like a spiritual recipe for “the right life.”High on the list are integrity, sincerity, authenticity, but I find the most revered quality is beingContinue reading “June 23, 2025”

June 22, 2025 – B

If I had everything I needed to live my life as it needs to be lived, I would do it exactly as I am doing it. I have everything I need and this is the life that needs me to live it. And it is going to carry me along the path I need toContinue reading “June 22, 2025 – B”

June 22, 2025

I have looked things over and concluded that I am as well off where I am as I would be anywhere I can think of. So I’m going to tuck myself into my life and wait it out right here. My regret is that we, collectively, universally, thinking, did not have what it would haveContinue reading “June 22, 2025”