04 We have to be clear about what we would go to hell for– about what we would serve with our life because it is life itself for us. This isn’t some grand principle, “My family,” “My country,” “Human rights,” etc. This is what we do every day because we cannot imagine a day withoutContinue reading “January 14, 2021”
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January 13, 2021
03 Accepting our vulnerability without allowing it to slow us down or keep us from living the life that needs us to live it is the sine qua non of the Hero’s Journey and the Spiritual Quest. Living to be safe, to never suffer, to avoid all pain and refuse to risk loss and defeatContinue reading “January 13, 2021”
January 12, 2021
05 Returning to the silence, seeking the center, harmonizing ourselves with the disharmony on all sides, making our peace with the complete absence of peace in our life, putting ourselves in accord with the complete lack of accord anywhere we look, is walking on the water of the heaving waves of the wine-dark sea, betweenContinue reading “January 12, 2021”
January 11, 2021
02 Living out of our center, listening to our imagination, and trusting ourselves to find what we need to do what needs to be done, is a day-by-day task of life, no matter what is going on around us. We have as much as anyone has ever had, and that got us to this point.Continue reading “January 11, 2021”
January 10, 2021
05 If you have been with me for a while, you know that one of the central features of my faith is the crucial importance of knowing what you would go to hell for– being right about it being worth going to hell for– and being willing to go to hell for it. Now, theContinue reading “January 10, 2021”
January 09, 2021
05 What are we doing with our life? What are we doing with our time? How do we know it is the right thing to do? Who says it is right, or wrong? How would we know whom to believe in case of a disagreement? How do we know what to do with our life?Continue reading “January 09, 2021”
January 08, 2021
02 We are the center and ground of our own existence. We interpret our experience (reality) to suit ourselves. What we say goes. We are our own authority. Our own God. We see all we look at, all we experience, in light of all we have looked at, experienced, and how we have responded toContinue reading “January 08, 2021”
January 07, 2021
03 What is the organizing idea of our life? The original Oomph driving our original nature? We are here to do what? What drives us? What shapes our life? What does our particular constellation of interests/abilities/knacks/proclivities/ virtues/characteristics equip us to do? What calls us forth? Leads us on? What fascinates us? Attracts us? Spellbinds us?Continue reading “January 07, 2021”
January 06, 2021
03 When the Commander in Chief assumes no responsibility and incites riot and rebellion, the Commander in Chief has to be relieved of duty. This is fundamental “how to do it” procedure. The problem is that those who would initiate the procedure themselves need to be relieved of duty, because they are incapable of doingContinue reading “January 06, 2021”
January 05, 2021
02 Today is the first day of my 77th year. It has taken me 76 years to get this far– and everything I have experienced, felt, done, believed, thought, etc. was essential to my being here, now. What I want you to know is that what is becoming of us is the most important thing.Continue reading “January 05, 2021”
January 04, 2021
02 There is the kind of winning that takes place on tennis courts, and football fields, and golf courses, and chess boards, and poker tables, where somebody wins and somebody loses. And there is the kind of winning that takes place in a small circle of jazz or bluegrass musicians making music in ways thatContinue reading “January 04, 2021”
January 03, 2021
02 The people who live from their center have an easier time maintaining their balance and harmony amid the heaving waves of the wine-dark sea than the people who have no connection with their center and think that what happens to them is the sum total of their existence. What happens to us is merelyContinue reading “January 03, 2021”
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