04 Our life is uniquely equipped to lead us to the heart of what matters most. The problem is that we have our own ideas about what that is. And our life has to get us to abandon our idea of what matters most and to embrace our life’s idea of what matters most, andContinue reading “December 26, 2020”
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December 25, 2020
04 Martha Graham premiered Lamentation on January 8, 1930. You can participate in her dance here: Hers was/is the only appropriate response to her times and ours. Metaphors express what words cannot say. The most important things cannot be said. The deepest things cannot be said. The truest things cannot be said. Yet we haveContinue reading “December 25, 2020”
December 24, 2020
01 It is Christmas Eve. A wonderful time for re-evaluating your relationship with your life. We know all about what needs to be changed about the world. What needs to be changed about you? About your relationship with you? About your relationship with the world? It is a week until New Year’s Eve. The NewContinue reading “December 24, 2020”
December 23, 2020
02 “What should I do? What response should I make? What is being asked of me? What is being called for in this immediate situation, here and now?” We only have to know what is being called for in the situation that is most pertinent in any moment, to know what we should do. WhatContinue reading “December 23, 2020”
December 22, 2020
02 We care too much about the wrong things, and we care too little about the right things. Consider what you care about, and what you don’t care about. All of the time. –0– 01 We are on our own. No one can do it for us. Teachers, at best, can only offer their experienceContinue reading “December 22, 2020”
December 21, 2021
04 Today is the Winter Solstice, the shortest day in the year, and the day the sun turns back toward the earth. The day all those human beings were sacrificed through the ages to bring The God back– and it WORKED!!! All of our ideologies “work” the same way! “Let it be!” said the Beatles.Continue reading “December 21, 2021”
December 20, 2020
02 Joseph Campbell said, “The crucial thing to live for is the sense of life in what you are doing, and if that is not there, then you are living according to other people’s notions of how you ought to live.” Whenever that describes our current situation, we have to stop. Look. And listen. WeContinue reading “December 20, 2020”
December 19, 2020
02 The Holy Grail represents the full realization of the potentials that came with us from the womb. This is the culmination of The Hero’s Journey: Being Who We Are! Who we are capable of being! Fully Born, as one Thus Come, at last! The secret ingredient is compassion. Compassion for ourselves. Compassion for others.Continue reading “December 19, 2020”
December 18, 2020
04 One of the first principles states: “Nothing can happen to us that is so bad that it cannot be made better– or worse– by the way we respond to it. And nothing can happen that is so good that it cannot be made better– or worse– by the way we respond it.” We holdContinue reading “December 18, 2020”
December 17, 2020
02 Happy is a state of being, an aspect of mind. A perspective, an outlook, an orientation, an attitude, a point of view. It is the way we look at what we see. Joseph Campbell called for “The joyful participation in the sorrows of the world.” And invited us to walk right into life asContinue reading “December 17, 2020”
December 16, 2020
02 We are not living to have our way. We are not living to do what we want. We are living to serve our destiny, to be who we are capable of being, to realize our potentiality, in doing what is calling us to do it– aligned with our original nature, in accord with theContinue reading “December 16, 2020”
December 15, 2020
02 We have interests and proclivities, inclinations, tendencies, preferences, penchants, passions, etc. that energize us, motivate us, stir us to action in ways that are unique to us. We care about things to a degree, and in a manner, that set us apart from other members of our family, and other members of the species.Continue reading “December 15, 2020”
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