Author Archives: jimwdollar

01 What do we make of it? That’s the question. What does it mean? For us? To us? What does life mean? What does our life mean? What do we mean? To us? For us? What is meaningful and what is not? How meaningfully do we live? How meaningful is our life? How meaningful isContinue reading “May 11, 2021”

01 It is all useless, pointless, hopeless, meaningless, futile, stupid and absurd– and coming to a very bad end: We all are going to die! And, therefore… What? And, therefore, what? What is the meaning of meaningless? What do we do in response to it? In response to meaningless? In response to the meaning ofContinue reading “May 10, 2021”

01 The problem with religion– all religion– is its take on blasphemy and heresy. A religion that embraces blasphemy and encourages heresy is my kind of religion. The only way to find that kind of religion is to create it on your own. I have done that by saying, “Don’t listen to me! Listen toContinue reading “May 09, 2021”

01 We all are carrying a load. Complexity, conflict and contradiction have their way with us. Balance and harmony are rarely present for long. Making peace with our life was out of the question years ago, and we have settled for making it through another day, one day at a time. Finding our life andContinue reading “May 08, 2021”

01 We have to meet the silence empty and open, still and receptive. No fear. No desires. No anger. No hatred. No judgment. No opinion. We bring stillness and emptiness, openness and receptivity to the silence, and wait, watching, for what emerges, occurs to us, arises, appears, beckons, calls, urging us to action without fear,Continue reading “May 07, 2021”

01 Between 200 and 500 CE, the person or persons responsible for the Taoist treatise “Cultivating Stillness,” wrote: “Abide in stillness, and you will enter the true way, this is called ‘receiving the Tao.'” About the time the Book of Job was being written, Prometheus Bound was also being written. Two works dealing with twoContinue reading “May 05, 2021”

01 Our practice comes down to the way we consciously follow a particular program for our life. The elements of that program are unique to each individual, but include a basic set of: Grounding in the silence. Conscious development and readjustment of our relationship with ourselves, one another and the invisible world. Distancing ourselves fromContinue reading “May 04, 2021”

01 When we embrace our fate, we unite with our destiny. We are born into our fate– our DNA is fated. We couldn’t do anything about it. It is a given. So are our parents and our point of origin in space and time. So are our loves and our hates, our preferences and ourContinue reading “May 03, 2021”

01 The key to happiness is few opinions. The more opinions we have, the less happy we are. The people who know everything have no idea of how to be happy. See everything, judge nothing, be happy. Compassion and grace leave things as they are until it becomes necessary to make changes. And then, theyContinue reading “May 02, 2021”

01 All it takes is time. Time will tell. Everything becomes clear in time. Time reveals all. If you don’t know what to do, just wait to see what you should have done, and you will know better what to do next time. Our entire life is a record of what works, and what doesn’tContinue reading “May 01, 2021”