03 It is easy to let someone else tell us what to do. To follow the herd. From the barn to the pasture, and back to the barn. Day after day. The work of being human is The Hero’s Journey– finding what is meaningful, not because it is supposed to be, but because it is!Continue reading “December 14, 2020”
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December 13, 2020
02 Diane Osbon said, “There is a track for each of us.” A track. A path. A way. A beam. A course… And we know when we are on it, and when we are not on it. We know when we are resonating with our life, and when we are not. We know when weContinue reading “December 13, 2020”
December 12, 2020
03 We can care too much, and we can care too little. We can think too much, and we can think too little. We live on a continuum between too much and too little. Finding the Still Point, is as easy as riding a bicycle. Once you get it, you have it forever. Just thinkContinue reading “December 12, 2020”
December 11, 2020
03 What fills us? Where are we “filled to the brim”? Filled with life– with the experience of being fully alive? Where has that–where does that–happen to us? How do we respond? Tears? Laughter? Silence? … Those moments are “transparent to transcendence.” They are “thin places” (Parker Palmer) where the world of The Mystery atContinue reading “December 11, 2020”
December 10, 2020
04 Joseph Campbell said, “If you really want to help this world, what you will have to teach is how to live in it. And that, no one can do who has not learned how to live in it in the joyful sorrow and the sorrowful joy of life as it is.” We are alwaysContinue reading “December 10, 2020”
December 09, 2020
03 Joseph Campbell asked, “What are you going to do well?” There is our art, our gift, and our life. What are we going to do well, when it doesn’t matter? When no one is going to notice, or know? When it amounts to nothing more than “divinely superfluous beauty”? There is our art, ourContinue reading “December 09, 2020”
December 08, 2020
05 Every time and place has its own mood, its own character, its own sense of being in, or out of, the flow– the Tao– of life and being Some places are so dead redemption and resurrection are out of the question. I have to get myself walked out of those places. I expect youContinue reading “December 08, 2020”
December 07, 2020
04 Doing what our life asks us to do, being who our life asks us to be, faithfully offering what is called for in each situation as it arises, providing what is needed in each moment, with compassion and kindness, sincerity and grace, without contriving some outcome, or seeking our advantage or gain, is toContinue reading “December 07, 2020”
December 06, 2020
03 The old Taoist saying, “Turn the light around,” says all we need to hear. It can be understood on different levels. Initially it was a directive to stop looking for illumination “out there,” in books, or lectures, or sutras, concepts, creeds, ideas, thinking, etc. and start looking for it “in here,” in realizations, recognition,Continue reading “December 06, 2020”
December 05, 2020
02 Preferences without expectations or demands will go a long way toward peace, balance and harmony. But. This works only where there is mutual respect for, and commitment to, the common good. Where that is lacking, that is where the police and the military come in. Everything depends upon our ability to enforce compliance toContinue reading “December 05, 2020”
December 04, 2020
04 We owe our life liege loyalty, filial devotion and devoted service through all the times and places, contexts and circumstances of our days upon the earth. Adam and Eve failed to do this, and served their wants and desires, but Abraham, Moses, Elijah and John the Baptist, Ruth, Ester, and Mary the mother ofContinue reading “December 04, 2020”
December 03, 2020
03 The Dalai Lama, speaking about the Chinese occupation of Tibet, said: “If, in any situation, there is no solution, there is no point in being anxious. If the forces at work have their own momentum, and what’s going on now is the product of what went before, and if this generation is not inContinue reading “December 03, 2020”
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