Author Archives: jimwdollar

Our present life situation is exactly what we needto bring us forth to meet the world as the world needsus to meet it.This is the magic at work in our lives.Our need to be who we are meshes perfectlywith the world’s deepest need in each here, nowthat comes along. We are precisely the answer theContinue reading “May 17, 2025”

Everyone has a different idea of how things ought to be.People who think they know best and must be pleased are a blight upon the rest of humankind.All voices need to be heard but.The voices that seem to be listened toare the voices with money and/or who are insistent, loud, and ever-present, refusing to goContinue reading “May 16, 2025”

The Buddha died, nothing changed.Jesus died,nothing changed.Everyone dies.Nothing changes.All of the changes that have been made–and there be multitudes,from the caves to the high rises,from clubs to nuclear warheads–have changed nothing.Everyone who dieslives in the service of something.For what?More people are destitute todaythan were destitute on the first day.More people are homeless.And what does “hope”Continue reading “May 15, 2025”

I wish experience were easier to come by.All of my greatest snafus are the result of inexperience.”If I had only known!” are the “famous last words”of many of us.And they certainly apply to me.Which suggests to me that we would benefit fromreading biographies/auto-biographiesand belonging to discussion/therapy groupswhere people were speaking “straight from the heartabout theContinue reading “May 15, 2025”

Where would we be without our escapes,diversions, distractions, denial, retreats…?The experience of being alive asks too much of us”late and soon.”Squaring ourselves up with “the way things are”is an on-going, never-ending task.”It’s always something.”And we all need a break from time to time,and never seem to catch a break.It is “more of the same” allContinue reading “May 14, 2025”

If we take the Hindu idea of Brahman as the spiritual foundation of the cosmos and understand it to mean that “All is Brahman,” so that everything is the same essence appearing in different guises–which Einstein encourages us to do using the word, “energy” instead of “Brahman,” in his statement, “Energy cannot be created orContinue reading “May 13, 2025”

There are places that restore our souls.That restore us to our souls.That put us back in the company of our souls.We should spend more time in those places.Beauty is truth.Truth beauty.Even when it is ugly, horrible, terrible, no good.Truth does not lie or deceive and that is the beauty of truth.We know what’s what thanksContinue reading “May 11, 2025”

Following up on the previous post, Alan Watts makes Hinduism plain. He says, The Upanishads, the sacred writings of the Hindus, says,“The intangible non-objective ground of everything that exists is identical with the ground of you.” “And it is fundamental to Vedanta that the supreme Self is neither one nor many, but as they sayContinue reading “May 10, 2025 – B”

Projection, properly understood and diagnosed, is the end of religion. We are seeing things that are not there by being coerced into taking everything on faith. “It doesn’t exist until you believe it does! Then it becomes an absolute fact like that! It is magical and miraculous and proof that God is REAL!!!)It is projection.IContinue reading “May 09, 2025”