Author Archives: jimwdollar

01 What needs you to do it with the gifts that are yours to serve and share– in each moment as it arises, here and now? You don’t have to go big with it. Go small. What needs you to do it out of your original nature, knowing what you know, being who you areContinue reading “July 20, 2021”

01 My wife and I have an attentive, respectful relationship with everything in our house. We treat it all with reverence, awareness, appreciation and gratitude– not for the thing in question, but TO the thing. We do not take anything for granted, or mistreat anything. We honor it for what it is and for itsContinue reading “July 19, 2021”

01 I love what I do, and where I’ve been, and where I am, and I have deep sadness/melancholy over how few people understand that what we do, where we have been and where we are are the most important things, and that how we are with that is how we are. It doesn’t matterContinue reading “July 18, 2021”

01 Honor the Mystery! That is the essential orientation, and we spend our entire life learning what it requires– and prohibits. It means abandoning the idea of God, for one thing. Treating the Mystery as though it is God is to fail to honor the Mystery. God has those Ten Commandments, and his (sic) ChosenContinue reading “July 17, 2021”

01 Sit quietly and observe what happens in the silence. Just watch, listen. Without engagement– without being hooked, kidnapped, shanghaied, carried off, with emotions aroused and looking for a fight, or a pizza, or anything in between, or beyond. If you find yourself responding to something arising, reflect on that. Ask the questions that begContinue reading “July 16, 2021”

01 Suffering and sex, money and power are the four most over-rated things in culture and civilization. All are good/necessary in their time and place. Not one warrants the emphasis it receives. Living in the service of any of them disrupts balance and harmony and introduces chaos and discord in the lives of their servant-victims.Continue reading “July 15, 2021”

01 We don’t know what we need to hear until we hear it. We don’t know what we need to see until we see it. We don’t know what we need to do until we do it. Which puts us at the mercy of the Mystery quite beyond us to lead us, guide us, callContinue reading “July 13, 2021”

01 Being healthy is an end in itself. Being healthy in the service of ends worthy of us is the best we can hope for in terms of fulfillment and satisfaction, although we may have nothing “to show for it.” Having something “to show for it,” in terms of wealth, power, prestige, standing, admiration ofContinue reading “July 12, 2021”

01 Our choices got us where we are. Our choices will get us where we are going. Who knows where they are going? Who knew we were going where we are? What are choices good for, really? The primary choice is Yes or No. How do we know? Upon what does our choice between YesContinue reading “July 11, 2021”

01 What are the forces of destabilization in your life? In what way do they stir up fear, desire, anger? What is interfering with your balance and harmony? In what way does that stir up fear, desire, anger? This photograph of a barn on Mormon Row, restores my stability and brings balance and harmony, peaceContinue reading “July 10, 2021”

01 The worst people kill the best people. And when the best people stand up for what is truly best and kill the worst people, as in World War II, 75 years or so later it is like the worst people won that war. And the Civil war never ended. It has to be re-foughtContinue reading “July 09, 2021”