Author Archives: jimwdollar

Being who we are is our life’s work.It requires listening in the silenceto be clear about what’s called forand rising to do it when, where and how it is called forin each situation as it arisesas only we can do it with our original nature,innate virtues (The things we do bestand enjoy doing most),our inherentContinue reading “March 27, 2025”

Here is the blurb that goes with the book:A Handbook for the Spiritual Journey II lays out for the interested reader the nature of the path which was first stated in Deuteronomy 30:12-14–“This commandment that I give you today is not too difficult for you or beyond your reach. It is not in heaven thatContinue reading “March 26, 2025 – B”

Who are we? What are we about?Answer those questions correctly and you go to the head of the class.Joseph Campbell said,”We know when we are on the beamand we know when we are off the beam.”A-buzz with addictions is a good sign of being off the beam.Being listless, lethargic, disinterested, not present,are also giveaways.Being alert,Continue reading “March 26, 2025”

Jesus and the Buddha were about 500 years apart.Jesus and I are nearly 2,000 years apart.And I think we could go back about 6,000 to 8,000 yearsto the Shaman who got things rolling when the last ice agereseeded enough to make things livable.It is shameful that the species has made no more spiritual progress thanContinue reading “March 25, 2025”

I hope I spend my remaining years like I have spent my recent years. Which is to say that things are fine as they are. Content. Comfortable. At peace. Or, as the Buddha might say,”Peaceful abiding, here, now.”I may have plenty to be anxious about with Trump at the helm,but it’s quite out of myContinue reading “March 24, 2025”

Carl Jung said, “We are who we always have been,and we are who we will be.”And he also said, “There is within each of us,another whom we do not know.”And it is our place to be who we arein the time left for living.For me that can only mean spending copious amounts of timein emptiness,Continue reading “March 22, 2025”

Truth is a perspective. Actually, an opinion. Temporary, distorted and subjective. Presenting, not only a point of view, but also exposing what some interested party has to gain or is afraid of losing, and revealing what they have at stake in some future outcome, inviting examination, inquiry, investigation, along the lines of “Who? What? When?Continue reading “March 21, 2025”

Spring comes when it needs toand stays until it’s done.Spring knows its business and tends it. I wish people worked like that. And stayed out of the way until needed.

Wild things have been accommodating civilizationfrom the beginning of civilization. So we give the refuges and preserves.Until oil or goal is discovered there,and then we put up fences. Sometimes we build land “bridges” over interstate highwaysto accomodate migration routes,and sometimes not.It is not wise to get in the way of progress.And how many species areContinue reading “March 19, 2025”

There are things we need to knowand things we need to do.And things occur to us out of nowherewhen we drop into the silenceand wait for clarity and direction.I do most of my growing up being quiet.It is amazing how much I realizejust looking out the window.Joseph Campbell said he adjusted to old ageby lettingContinue reading “March 18, 2025”