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September 11, 2020

03 We pretend it is going to last forever. We do not look at the score. We do not look at the clock. We do not wonder “How much LOOONNNGGEEERRR as though we need it to be done, NOW! Our full attention is on the moment, this moment, the time and place of our living.Continue reading “September 11, 2020”

September 10, 2020

04 Chief Seattle and Black Elk did not have a PhD between them. Or a Masters Degree. Or a Bachelors Degree. Or a high school diploma. And they were brilliant men of soul, fit for the company of Gandalf the Grey, Albus Dumbledore, Obi wan Kenobi and Yoda. Dolly Parton would belong to that group.Continue reading “September 10, 2020”

September 9, 2020

04 Our life does not happen accidentally, while we are in pursuit of our dreams. It isn’t what occurs while we are doing something else. Something more fun. Our life is the intentional production of the mutual collaboration between the conscious and unconscious aspects of ourselves. We are two selves: Conscious and Unconscious (We callContinue reading “September 9, 2020”

September 8, 2020

02 Here we are. Caught up in a pandemic, at the mercy of a crazy (As in certifiably insane) President and a GOP majority in the Senate, aiding and abetting his every move, with the world as we know it going to hell as we watch, and nothing more effective to offer than protest marchesContinue reading “September 8, 2020”

September 7, 2020

03 Religion died when it invented theology. Theology is Substitute Religion. It is somebody else’s Religion. Theology is Second-hand Religion. Theology is equivalent to what the people did when Moses came down from the mountain, and his face shone so with the absorbed Glory of God that the people couldn’t look directly at him, andContinue reading “September 7, 2020”

September 6, 2020

02 We do not know whom to trust– so we trust ourselves to deal with betrayal of trust. And, listening to our inner guides, step into the day. The key to trusting ourselves lies in communing with ourselves. When we “return to the source,” we are returning to ourselves. WE are the source of whoContinue reading “September 6, 2020”

September 5, 2020

03 How do you bear your pain? Everything tends to take shape around that. Coming to terms with the pain of life, the pain of being alive, is one of the primary developmental tasks. Get it wrong and we are in a death spiral until we get it right. Denial, escape, distraction is getting itContinue reading “September 5, 2020”

September 4, 2020

01 If you are like everyone else, you take the wrong things too seriously, and the right things not seriously at all. Growing up is learning to see with right seeing, and to live accordingly. All of our problems that we live seeking to solve fall into one, or more, of these categories (Which haveContinue reading “September 4, 2020”

September 3, 2020

02 What needs to happen here, now? That is our only problem: Here. Now. What is pressing in from outside here and now? Make a list. Pressure producing items from near and far. What am I going to do about the job, about the relationship I’m in, about not being in a relationship… all theContinue reading “September 3, 2020”

08/10/2020

01 If you haven’t read yesterday’s post on the Stages of Spiritual Development, today’s post refers to that, so you might check it out when that is convenient. Nowhere in my experience has there been a group centered on spirituality that devotes itself to helping people move through the Stages of Spiritual Development. Certain typesContinue reading “08/10/2020”

08/10/2020

08/09/2020

The Stages of Spiritual Development The Old Yogis/Hindus/Buddhists held there to be seven stages of spiritual development. Stage 1 is Living Without Being Alive. Jesus advised leaving the dead to bury the dead. The people at this stage are dragons (Joseph Campbell), Dragging themselves around. They are just hanging out, barely making it through eachContinue reading “08/09/2020”