01 Our motive for most of our action is what’s in it for us. What we stand to gain. What we can keep from losing. Since Adam and Eve, we have been seeking better. Our motto through the ages has been: “NOT This! THAT!” Ambition, aspiration, incentive, drive and desire are the motivating forces ofContinue reading “June 04, 2021”
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June 03, 2021
01 It is a psychological saw that we need to stand out and fit in, and between those polarities lie all of our problems. Fitting in is being like those we aspire to be like (Or are afraid to not be like). Standing out is expressing our natural self in the way we go aboutContinue reading “June 03, 2021”
June 02, 2021
01 If you are waiting for things to make sense, you are standing in the wrong line. There isn’t a line. Things do not make sense. Coming to terms with that positions you well to make it the rest of the way. Now, you only need to square yourself up with doing what needs toContinue reading “June 02, 2021”
June 01, 2021
01 There is a price to be paid for doing it– and for doing it the way we do it. Whatever “it” is. Democracy carries a price tag. “Freedom isn’t free,” as the popular catch phrase goes, though the people saying it rarely apply it to themselves. It applies to wearing masks during pandemics asContinue reading “June 01, 2021”
June 2021
This is a place holder page for the posts I plan to make during the month of June.
May 31, 2021
01 It is best to wake up slowly, gently, over a long period of time. There is no hurry, and the transition is life-changing. The transition is part of the process. Waking up requires us to completely transform our relationships with our life, our self, other people– and we do not do that overnight. WeContinue reading “May 31, 2021”
May 30, 2021
01 The movie “Groundhog Day” is my template, pattern, model, for waking up. We all wake up the way Bill Murry/Phil Connors wakes up. Murry’s/Connors’ advantage in the movie is that nothing changes until he does. With us, everything is changing all the time, and we have something else to see before we have seenContinue reading “May 30, 2021”
May 29, 2021
01 We live to increase our net worth annually. It would be better for all concerned if we lived to maintain our balance and harmony, in the service of our original nature. We think nothing of sacrificing balance, harmony and original nature in the service of our net worth. And wonder why we are notContinue reading “May 29, 2021”
May 28, 2021
01 It all starts with and flows from our being in balance and harmony with our life, meaning our situation in life, our circumstances, our context, our here and now. Being in balance and harmony with here and now, moment by moment, in each situation as it arises, is the most important thing. That positionsContinue reading “May 28, 2021”
May 27, 2021
01 The first rule of life is to live truthfully. The second rule of life is to live compassionately. Until we get those two rules down, we are only pretending to be alive, wrapped up as we are in denial and greed. The third rule of life is to live in the service of balanceContinue reading “May 27, 2021”
May 26, 2021
o1 Think of the Doctrines of Heaven and Hell as Bribery and Extortion. It makes sense, coming as they do from the priests of organized religion. It is a rule never mentioned: First came religion, then came theology. Religion’s primary motivation is not serving its theology. Its theology is a tool it uses to keepContinue reading “May 26, 2021”
May 25, 2021
01 Can you bear the pain? Will you bear the pain? Why bear the pain? For what are we bearing the pain? What’s with the pain? Why pain? The pain is the pain of being alive, Life is pain all the way from the pain of child birth, to the pain of child rearing, toContinue reading “May 25, 2021”
