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”
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March 15, 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”
March 14, 2021
03 Start with what you love. Select one thing from all the things you love. How much time do you spend with it? How often? How long has it been? What can you do to increase frequency and duration? Will you do it? Imagine putting a frame around your selection to isolate it for yourContinue reading “March 14, 2021”
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”
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