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06/29/2020

The foundation of The Church of What’s Happening Now is the right kind of silence. The right kind of silence is the source of everything. The wrong kind of silence leads to the right kind of silence over time. Just be still sit quietly and wait to see and hear what needs to be heardContinue reading “06/29/2020”

06/28/2020

Carl Jung said, “Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.” We refuse to bear the pain of being alive– the pain of coming to life within our own lives. The agony of the delivery room is not just the mother’s. We continue to birth ourselves long after we are born, throughout our life. OrContinue reading “06/28/2020”

06/27/2020

01 All religion is based on the premise that if we make God happy, God will make us happy. This has been condensed to the principle: Give To Get, and explained by saying, “If we give to God we will get back blessings by the boat load, pouring over, spilling out.” Never mind that God’sContinue reading “06/27/2020”

06/26/2020

The ground of true religion is personal experience with the ineffable essence of existence in the form of grace, beauty, wonder–typically conveyed by an encounter with art, music, nature and/or the right kind of conversation with the right kind of people. This is religion without theology, doctrine, dogma, creeds, reason or logic, and is beyondContinue reading “06/26/2020”

06/25/2020

Anything that takes the present moment away from us is evil. Anything that brings the present moment vibrantly alive to us is good. Anything can take the present moment away from us. Anything can bring the present moment vibrantly alive to us. Anything can be evil. Anything can be good. The present moment is allContinue reading “06/25/2020”

June 21, 2020

Anything that takes the present moment away from us is evil. Anything that brings the present moment vibrantly alive for us is good. Anything can take the present moment away from us. Anything can bring the present moment vibrantly alive for us. Anything can be evil. Anything can be good. The present moment is allContinue reading “June 21, 2020”

June 22, 2020

I do not know of any of AA’s slogansthat I take exception to.And, If I did,or ever do,I would/will take that as evidenceof my having not lived long enoughunder the right conditions,and that with a little more timeand a shift in circumstances,I will see the sharp truth of that one as well. Which gets usContinue reading “June 22, 2020”

June 23, 2020

We are here now and want to be somewhere else. Maybe, just anywhere else, and maybe, a clear and specific THERE! NOW! There are two ways to do it. 1) Leave here and go there. 2) Be here, now and see where it goes. Which option applies to our current situation depends on what isContinue reading “June 23, 2020”

June 24, 2020

The old Alchemists thought they could change the world to suit themselves if they could but find The Philosopher’s Stone, which was their equivalent to the Elder Wand, and would serve them as the threshold to wonders unimagined, but (with the Stone in hand) suddenly possible. Nobody in all the world, in all the worldsContinue reading “June 24, 2020”

June 25, 2020

Lao Tzu, who wrote the book, couldn’t say what The Tao is, beyond “The Way.” He said it can be experienced/known, but no one can say what it is. The same can be said of Grace. We all have had experiences with Grace at work in our life. We can say what happened, but weContinue reading “June 25, 2020”

June 26, 2020

02 Improving our relationship with ourselves improves our relationship with our life and with the people in our life, spontaneously, automatically, naturally. Carl Jung said, “There is within each of us, another, whom we do not know.” It is not too late to begin getting to know who we also are. Getting to know whoContinue reading “June 26, 2020”

June 27, 2020

I have three questions for you. They all can be asked in reverse. So, that’s six questions. All six are getting at the same thing. 1) What is the nature of your pain? 2) What is the source of your life? 3) What is the source of your pain? 4) What is the nature ofContinue reading “June 27, 2020”