Author Archives: jimwdollar

Sit still, be quiet, see what emerges from the silence and how it suggests what is called for here, now–and how we might arise and do what needs to be done,when, where and how it needs to be done, and where that leads.Allowing inner to direct us to outer puts us on the pathof findingContinue reading “June 27, 2025”

To live from our center, core, ground, foundation, truth would mean what? Around what do we coalesce? Our identity flows from what? When we act spontaneously, without thinking, planning scheming, who do we show ourselves to be? When have we surprised ourselves by saying/doing something? That is who we are. Who is that? Make thatContinue reading “June 26, 2025”

Gnosticism was well ahead of its time.The first and second centuries CE were not ready to hear,”We all are God! We only need to wake up to this truthand be who we are!”And the people who saw things this way then were martyred, or murdered, for their service to the truth–as Jesus had foretold thatContinue reading “June 25, 2025”

It comes down to being who we are, doing what is ours to do.Sounds simple enough. Who couldn’t do that? I would like to know.My hunch is that integrity, sincerity, authenticity are rare across the races over time. What’s your bet for the most authentic race (And the most authentic species, while we are atContinue reading “June 24, 2025”

I have looked things over and concluded that I am as well off where I am as I would be anywhere I can think of. So I’m going to tuck myself into my life and wait it out right here. My regret is that we, collectively, universally, thinking, did not have what it would haveContinue reading “June 22, 2025”

Who is in, who is out, who gets to say? All are in, none are out. Let’s make that the order of the day! And live as though it is the way! Why not? What would happen if we did? Why not anyway? What could happen that would be worse than saying some are inContinue reading “June 21, 2025”

I do not know where the line lies between MAGA, White Supremacy, White Nationalism and Christian Nationalism. I think there is no line. And, I think that what creates the need for a line is their hate and fear of all people on the other side of the line.Hate and fear are the source/cause ofContinue reading “June 20, 2025”

“The secret cause of suffering,” from James Joyce and Joseph Campbell, resides in the arc of our own life and our propensity for seeing/interpreting (and we cannot see without interpreting) things as we do. We bring our suffering (and death) upon ourselves by way of our living/seeing/interpreting the events of our life in the mannerContinue reading “June 19, 2025 – B”

The United States and Israel vs. Iran and Russia. Nobody can back down, and nobody can advance. Everybody else will be pressured to take sides. It took the Trump administration to get this to happen. Trump, who always blames someone else for all of his blunders, and there be many, has no one to blameContinue reading “June 19, 2025”

This is a meditative icon, which every image is,with all art being the doorway/threshold between worlds,inviting us to behold the wonder of moving from one world to another in perceiving the wonder of the art object and itsability to transport us from world to world.The water fountain is a Portkey, carrying us from this worldContinue reading “June 18, 2025”