Author Archives: jimwdollar

01 Learning to be alive in the time left for living is a simple matter of transforming your relationship with yourself and with your life. You’ve been doing it all wrong. Reconciliation is a two-way street. We have to reconcile ourselves to the world, and we have to reconcile the world to ourselves. Here’s theContinue reading “April 09, 2021”

01 The fascist dream is a nightmare– for everyone, including fascists! If we rid the world of everyone not like we are, we are left with ourselves, and the realization that who we hate is us! Fascists hate themselves and blame everyone not like them for it: “It’s people like you who make people likeContinue reading “April 08, 2021”

01 Our balance and harmony are strictly contingent on our safety, security and stability– which, in turn, rely on our being free from the intrusions, incursions, invasions and overrunings of Those Who Know Best And Must Be Pleased. Balance and harmony are generated by, and flow from, a life that is lived from its ownContinue reading “April 07, 2021”

01 Doing what needs to be done, when it needs to be done, where it needs to be done, the way it needs to be done, and repeating this process through each moment of every situation as it arises, is more about listening and looking, seeing and hearing, than it is about prioritizing. We needContinue reading “April 06, 2021”

01 We die because it becomes too much trouble to keep going. We Peter-out. We dwindle down to nothing. Our knees go. Our eyesight goes. Our teeth go. Our hearing goes… The list goes on and on. And we get to the place of saying the hell with it. I’m suggesting that longevity is notContinue reading “April 05, 2021”

01 When you are thinking, also be thinking about your thinking. To not be thinking about your thinking is to be swept away by your thinking, carried off, into emotional fits of rage, or terror, or remorse and guilt– possessed by your thoughts and your feelings about your thoughts to the point of losing allContinue reading “April 04, 2021”

01 The impulse of our original nature comes to us in the silence of watching, listening– which characterizes the Aborigines’ walkabouts, and the Native American vision quests, and our own search for the source of life and being– to guide our boat on its path through the sea. “The path that can be discerned isContinue reading “April 03, 2021”

01 The natural world is “Thus Come,” just as it is, without pretensions or aspirations, looking only for what needs to be done in each situation as it arises, and rising to meet the occasion with what it has to work with, letting the outcome be the outcome, situation by situation, day by day, forContinue reading “April 02, 2021”