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”
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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”
December 02, 2020
02 Joseph Campbell emphasizes the importance of creating a sacred space as a place to retreat from the world of normal, apparent, reality– in order to return to the center, amid the things that are central to “the harmonization of your own life.” A sacred space is a decompression zone, where we return to ourselvesContinue reading “December 02, 2020”
December 01, 2020
It comes down to attitude. Outlook. Viewpoint. Perception. Perspective. How we look limits what we see, casts what we see in a favorable or unfavorable light, tilts the table for or against, pro or con, my way or the highway. We tend to see in ways that favor what we favor and disfavor what weContinue reading “December 01, 2020”
December 2020
This Category contains all of my posts made in the month of December of 2020
November 30, 2020
03 Our mythology consists of the things we tell ourselves to adjust ourselves to the world, to life as it is, to the way things are. What do you turn to when you have nowhere to turn? What do you say to yourself about your losses and your sorrows? How do you find your wayContinue reading “November 30, 2020”
2020
I migrated from FaceBook to WordPress in June, 2020, so this collection is for the last six months of the year. I hope you enjoy perusing the posts! Here’s one to get things started: We wake up in some life in some time in some place in a “Here we are, now what?” kind ofContinue reading “2020”
November 29, 2020
02 –0– What pulls you off course? What attachment is stronger than the call from your center for expression and service? If we are not going to live to incarnate what is deepest, truest and best about us, what are we getting that will offset that betrayal? The story of the Garden of Eden isContinue reading “November 29, 2020”
November 28, 2020
02 If our heart isn’t in what we are doing, it shows. We can’t fake heart. Better that we listen to heart– and do what heart says do, and not do what heart says don’t do. We make our biggest mistakes not listening to heart. Or confusing heart with Eros, and waking up in someContinue reading “November 28, 2020”
November 27, 2020
04 What is meaningful about your life? How often do you do it? How often would you need to do it to say without hesitation that you are living a meaningful life? A life that has meaning for you is the only meaningful life there is for you. If what do has meaning for 10,000Continue reading “November 27, 2020”
November 26, 2020
04 Is it easier to deceive yourself alone, or in a group? When I look around at the white supremacists, the NRA, the MAGA’s, the Qanon’s, the Roman Catholic Church, the Evangelical Christian churches, the Protestant Christian churches… the list is really, really, long… I think there is no safety in numbers, and the moreContinue reading “November 26, 2020”
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