Author Archives: jimwdollar

Jesus lived Jesus’ idea of the life he needed to live in light of what the situation at hand called for when, where and how the situation at hand called for his life to be lived. We cannot hope to do better than living our idea of the life we need to live in lightContinue reading “May 25, 2026 – D”

No expectations, no desires, no willful insistence on having things our way. Just seeing, just hearing, just sensing/feeling, understanding, knowing what’s what and whats happening, and what is called for, and what needs to happen in response, and doing it as it needs to be done, when it needs to be done, where it needsContinue reading “May 25, 2026 – C”

Articulation is the pathway–the Way–to TRUTH, as long as it does not merely repeat what has always been said, as is the case with theology and preaching, patriotism and blah, blah, blah wherever it is experienced. Jacob Brownski said, “We cannot know the truth unless we live in certain ways.” We have to live truthfully.Continue reading “MAY 25, 2026 – B”

The message of all the Messiahs through time is simple, straight forward, in capable of being missed, and, therefore being ignored: “This is the way to do it! Be me!” And we worship them all for being the spit’n image of who we all need to be, and letting them bear the wounds and theContinue reading “May 24, 2026 – B”

I don’t know why I went from Greensboro, North Carolina to Deer Isle, Maine to take a photograph of the full moon. Or to take any photograph. In the grip of inspiration you don’t ask questions. That is also the difference between our sixties and our eighties. I am quite content to sit by theContinue reading “May 24, 2026”

We are our own light. Our own authority. Our own guide and Guru. We are all we need to find what we need to do what needs to be done with the time that is ours on the earth, and the task that is ours to do. All it takes is making regular visits toContinue reading “05/22/2026”

I am glad to have no idea of how things ought to be beyond being quiet and waiting to see what is called for in each situation as it arises and entering the field of action to do the right thing, in the right way, at the right time and dropping back into the silenceContinue reading “May 21, 2026 – B”

I give credit to the experience of emptiness, stillness, silence (One thing, not three) over time to be at the place of experiencing frustration without being frustrated, for example. This is the way of experiencing a situation without being consumed by the situation. We can observe a situation and be immune to the situation. ThisContinue reading “May 21, 2026”

I don’t see prayer as having an impact on anything in the cosmos. If prayer worked there would be no cemeteries, or hospitals, or poverty…and so on forever. What does work is emptiness, stillness and silence (One thing, not three), being here, now, present with, and conscious of, what is present with us, here, now,Continue reading “May 20, 2026”

Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Gatlinburg, Tennessee Knowing what is called for in each situation as it arises, being right about it, and doing it is all that can be asked of anyone, ever, throughout time. Even if they don’t believe in God. Even if they don’t believe they ARE God.