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September 15, 2020

03 What symbols are living symbols for you? Which ones bring you to life? Ground you? Open you to the moment, and to the wonder of life, the mysterium tremendum, the awe inspiring mystery, at the heart of being alive? What symbols enable you to face anything? Serve as a guide through dark times? AContinue reading “September 15, 2020”

September 14, 2020

02 People have been missing the point forever. Thinking they/we are the point, and that everything here is for our benefit and enjoyment– to “fill the earth and subdue it,” party hardy and pass a good time. We plop out of the womb figuring the angles, calculating our chances, contriving, conning scheming, planning… always withContinue reading “September 14, 2020”

September 13, 2020

02 We have to be right about what is important and live as though it is in each situation as it arises, no matter what. It is never more difficult than that. It is always that difficult. In order to pull it off, we have to be mindfully aware of what matters most to usContinue reading “September 13, 2020”

September 12, 2020

02 When people ask me if I believe in God, I ask them if they believe in Grace. Most say something on the order of “Of course!” I follow up with, “Why do you believe in Grace?” Most say something on the order of “I have experienced it in my own life!” And I say,Continue reading “September 12, 2020”

September 11, 2020

03 We pretend it is going to last forever. We do not look at the score. We do not look at the clock. We do not wonder “How much LOOONNNGGEEERRR as though we need it to be done, NOW! Our full attention is on the moment, this moment, the time and place of our living.Continue reading “September 11, 2020”

September 10, 2020

04 Chief Seattle and Black Elk did not have a PhD between them. Or a Masters Degree. Or a Bachelors Degree. Or a high school diploma. And they were brilliant men of soul, fit for the company of Gandalf the Grey, Albus Dumbledore, Obi wan Kenobi and Yoda. Dolly Parton would belong to that group.Continue reading “September 10, 2020”

September 9, 2020

04 Our life does not happen accidentally, while we are in pursuit of our dreams. It isn’t what occurs while we are doing something else. Something more fun. Our life is the intentional production of the mutual collaboration between the conscious and unconscious aspects of ourselves. We are two selves: Conscious and Unconscious (We callContinue reading “September 9, 2020”

September 8, 2020

02 Here we are. Caught up in a pandemic, at the mercy of a crazy (As in certifiably insane) President and a GOP majority in the Senate, aiding and abetting his every move, with the world as we know it going to hell as we watch, and nothing more effective to offer than protest marchesContinue reading “September 8, 2020”

September 7, 2020

03 Religion died when it invented theology. Theology is Substitute Religion. It is somebody else’s Religion. Theology is Second-hand Religion. Theology is equivalent to what the people did when Moses came down from the mountain, and his face shone so with the absorbed Glory of God that the people couldn’t look directly at him, andContinue reading “September 7, 2020”

September 6, 2020

02 We do not know whom to trust– so we trust ourselves to deal with betrayal of trust. And, listening to our inner guides, step into the day. The key to trusting ourselves lies in communing with ourselves. When we “return to the source,” we are returning to ourselves. WE are the source of whoContinue reading “September 6, 2020”

September 5, 2020

03 How do you bear your pain? Everything tends to take shape around that. Coming to terms with the pain of life, the pain of being alive, is one of the primary developmental tasks. Get it wrong and we are in a death spiral until we get it right. Denial, escape, distraction is getting itContinue reading “September 5, 2020”

September 4, 2020

01 If you are like everyone else, you take the wrong things too seriously, and the right things not seriously at all. Growing up is learning to see with right seeing, and to live accordingly. All of our problems that we live seeking to solve fall into one, or more, of these categories (Which haveContinue reading “September 4, 2020”