Author Archives: jimwdollar

1) 1) You and your life are meditations awaiting realization.We are only mindful awareness away from aligning ourselves with the Tao–with the flow of lifemoving through situations and circumstancesas a blessing and a graceupon us and all those who come our way.Which is all that Jesus ever did.Which is exactly what Jesus always did.”The fatherContinue reading “November 06, 2024 – B”

1) The meaningful things are meaningfulthrough all times and places.The laughter of children.The loyalty of pets.The colors of fall.The warmth a fire upon the hearth.The odor of oatmeal cranberry cookiesfresh from the oven.The music that makes our little heart singand our little toes to dance…You have your own list.Remember it well,cherish it in all timesContinue reading “November 06, 2024 – A”

1) Do what you can do and don’t worry about–or even think about–what you can’t do.Doing what we can dowith the gifts of our original nature,our innate virtues (The things we do bestand enjoy doing most),and our intrinsic intuitionabout what is called forin each situation as it ariseswill set the cosmos in its tracesand createContinue reading “November 05, 2024”

1) I don’t have enough scenes close-by.So I keep returning to the scenes I do have,hoping to see it with new eyes.And, of course, that always works to charm meagain.Fall is my favorite season.Spring is next.Summer and winter are equally boring for me,and spring is getting difficult,with knees that make getting low to small springContinue reading “November 04, 2024”

1) Wanting is the source of all of our problems.To be free of wantingis the ultimate in liberation.To be free of wantingis to be open to what is called forhere, now.What is it time for?What is the situation asking for?What needs to be done in the time and place of our living?Questions that are lostContinue reading “November 03, 2024 – A”

Our problem is finding our way in the world.We are questing for who we areand what we are about–for what is meaningful and necessary(Or, “meet and right”)for us to do. The Bible gives us direction when it says,”It is not across the seathat you should seek it there,and it is not hidden in the mountains,thatContinue reading “November 02, 2024 – A”

What do you do when there is nothing you can do?Where do you turnwhen there is nowhere to turn?I’m serious.What holds you up?What keeps you going?Were do you find your “Umph”?Your spirit?Your determination?Your will?What guides your boaton its path through the sea?Odysseus said,”I will endure and I will press on!And when the heaving sea hasContinue reading “November 01, 2024 – A”

My sister Susan’s suicide three years ago was the result of her evaluation of the way things are,and her choice to not put up with it any longer.She looked at the same universe Dr. King saw,and she did not view it as bending toward justice at all.”Each to their own,” as we sometimes say.However, ourContinue reading “November, 2024”

1) We have done ourselves no favorswith religion forcing dependencyupon the people,by telling them they are sinfuland have no hope in their own devicesbut must believe-BELIEVE!-what someone tells them to believeor they will go to hellswimming in molten lead lakesthroughout eternityfor their evil, detestable, ways.We have created generations of peopleafraid to live out of theirContinue reading “October 31, 2024 – A”

If Trump winsit will be the last election for a long time.If Trump doesn’t win,the fallout could be devastating.But more devastating if he wins,with him pardoning everyone on his sidefor anything they do.The Madison Square Garden rallywill be everywhere all the timeonly worse.And there will be no wayto get out of the way.Riding it outContinue reading “October 30, 2024 – A”

Wanting is the sourceof all of our problems today.Wanting and striving.Striving to achieve what we want,and to avoid what we don’t want.Get rid of wanting and strivingand it is a brand new worldjust like that.So, that is our task:Ridding ourselves of wantingand striving.Our work is simple:Live to want less today than we wanted yesterday.To strive,Continue reading “October 29, 2024 – A”

Life seems to have such repetition about it, flowing through the ages, as though we all share someone else’s motivations and memories. My questing seems to be someone else’s forwarded to me—someone I am not related to in at least the two generations preceding my birth. The things that call to me did not callContinue reading “October 28, 2024 – A”