03 What are the things keeping us from being the person we are capable of being, doing the things we are capable of getting done? Really–what is holding us back? Standing in our way? If it weren’t for what, we would be doing what? Sit quietly with those things in your lap. Meditate on thoseContinue reading “November 22, 2020”
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November 21, 2020
03 We have to be right about what’s important. Everything rides on it. But how can we be right about what’s important? By being wrong, wrong, wrong with our eyes open. Getting it right the first time is an accident. Getting it right twice in a row just starting out is stupid lucky. Getting itContinue reading “November 21, 2020”
November 20, 2020
03 Our life is designed to bring out the best in us, or not. Joseph Campbell said, “It took the Cyclops to bring out the hero in Ulysses.” But, not in all those the Cyclops met before Ulysses. We do not have to stand up and step forward to meet our life with our bestContinue reading “November 20, 2020”
November 19, 2020
03 We see things the way we see things. And. Everything hinges/turns/flows from/falls out around how we see things. Nothing is more important than being right about the way we see things. That being the case– and who could see it any other way– you would think we would take the pains required to seeContinue reading “November 19, 2020”
November 18, 2020
05 My short list of the most important things: See what you look at. Look at everything. Hear what you listen to. Listen to everything. Know what you know, and what you don’t know. Sit quietly as often as possible for as long as possible. Contemplate your original nature and your natural rhythms. Realize thatContinue reading “November 18, 2020”
November 17, 2020
03 All religion is based on the premature interpretation of experience. The discovery of recurring cycles in the relationships between the stars and planets– with mathematical regularity– did not, does not, mean anything beyond what it is. However, the stargazers who put everything together made it mean what they said it meant by interpreting itContinue reading “November 17, 2020”
November 16, 2020
03 Why do we care about what we care about? We will never explain our way to the bottom of it. The question can be answered only with another question. “Why do you care about what you care about? We do not have access to the Carer within. We like what we like. We don’tContinue reading “November 16, 2020”
November 15, 2020
03 Everything hinges upon, flows from, falls into place around living meaningfully. Living meaningfully is living with your heart in what you are doing. What keeps that from happening? There are no substitutes for it. No stand-ins. No reasonable facsimiles. All of the distractions, like money, sex, alcohol and pot, can’t erase the emptiness orContinue reading “November 15, 2020”
November 14, 2020
03 God is not a fact. God is a metaphor for the Mystery at the Heart of Life and Being. God is more than can be known, or said, or thought, or imagined. To say more than that about God is heresy, suggesting that God can be explained, described, told of, said. Heinrich Zimmer said,Continue reading “November 14, 2020”
November 13, 2020
05 Each of us has a destiny to fulfill, a life to live, a work to perform, a calling to serve, a self to express, exhibit, incarnate, a divine spark to nourish into a flame of glory and wonder so that no one can tell where we stop and God starts. Sounds a bit much,Continue reading “November 13, 2020”
November 12, 2020
03 We have to grant our imagination access to us. We do that by allowing our mind to range freely over our external and internal landscape, playing with the possibilities, turning things upside down, inside out, seeing things as they are and as they should be and as they never will be, wondering why howContinue reading “November 12, 2020”
November 11, 2020
03 Grounded in, and living out of, our original nature and that which is ours to do, we are invincible, untouchable, beyond reach, and cannot be knocked off dead center no matter what comes along. Send up the Cyclops! And Medusa! Genghis Khan and the Mongol Hordes! It doesn’t raise a sweat. We are invulnerableContinue reading “November 11, 2020”
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