Author Archives: jimwdollar

03 Returning to the practice of Active Imagination: We either stop the experience, or allow it to reach a natural stopping point. And there begins the next phase of the exercise. We have to reflect on it to the point of new realizations. Active Imagination is a daytime, waking, dream. A daydream of the highestContinue reading “August 17, 2020”

04 Sincerity is the foundation of our personality. Sincerity is the end of duplicity. Of contrivance. Of manipulation. And deceit. And deception. Fraud, trickery, artifice… And all that is the bane of relationships and the essence of bad faith worldwide. Sincerity is the solution to all of our problems today. Everyday. It is the onlyContinue reading “August 18, 2020”

03 Musing on our Original Nature, our Virtues, and our Character opens up pathways of reflection that lead to new realizations. What are the things that make us us, that separate us from the crowd, that stand us apart and identify us as distinct from every other person– that are to our psyche as ourContinue reading “August 19, 2020”

03 The energy to be engaged comes from tending our relationship with the Source of Rapture, Ecstasy, Euphoria Awe, Wonder… that characterize the impact beauty has on us in art, music and nature– though it also can arise from particular encounters with The Tao of Grace and Synchronicity. Whether there is such a thing asContinue reading “August 20, 2020”

02 There is how things are. And there is how we wish things were. And there is how things ought to be. Our place is to be right about how things are and how things ought to be, put aside how we wish things were, and work diligently at the task of making things moreContinue reading “August 21, 2020”

02 Faith-as-belief is another word for denial. Belief discounts, dismisses, disregards, ignores facts in favor of a different perception of reality. We believe ourselves out of one world, into another. Keeping faith with ourselves, on the other hand, enables us to live in this world exactly as it is, as those who are not disabledContinue reading “August 22, 2020”

01 When too much comes at us too fast, too often, we need to go “where the wild things are,” or at least read “The Peace of Wild Things,” by Wendell Berry. We need to immerse ourselves in the natural world. We were born into that world. We are a part of that world. WeContinue reading “August 23, 2020”

02 Develop an intense curiosity about what meets you in the silence. And how you react to it. Everyone who has thought about it through the ages has said there are only three things that impact us throughout our life: Desire Fear Duty. How we live is how we live in relation to the mixtureContinue reading “August 24, 2020”

02 In light of what do we live? I think it was Frederich Nietzsche, I know someone was quoted by Joseph Campbell as describing a mature person being “like a wheel rolling out of its own center.” I imagine a gyroscope turning out of its own center, maintaining its own balance and harmony, choosing itsContinue reading “August 25, 2020”

02 It would be GREAT if we felt like doing what needs to be done! Nothing would make the difference that feeling like living the life that needs to be lived would make in our life and in the world. “I don’t feel like it,” is all it takes to make things exactly what theyContinue reading “August 27, 2020”