Author Archives: jimwdollar

What associations, connections, do you make with this image?What memories stir?What comes to mind?What emotions come to life?What thoughts spin off other thoughtsuntil an entire chain of associations, connectionsare created just by looking at a photograph?What comes to life in you just by making a spacefor it to do so?Do it frequently.Give your inner lifeContinue reading “January 04, 2025”

What do we have to show for it?What has our life brought forth in us? Who have we shown ourselves to bethrough the process of being alive?By sitting still and reflectingon what comes to mindto the point of new realizationsand making connectionsand seeing what’s whatand what needs to be done about it,I have evolved intoContinue reading “January 03, 2025”

The scenes that we seekcan be anywhere,but they are not everywhere.So, we have to keep looking.The things we need to hearcan be found anywhere,but they are not found everywhere,so we have to keep listing–and just as importantly,we have to keep talking,because we can say what we need to hearas easily as anyone else can sayContinue reading “January 02, 2025”

Our mind is a wonderful assist in figuring out how to do what needs to be done.But, knowing what needs to be done,when, where and how, is another matter.Our intuition and imagination are betterat “reading the signs,”at “feeling the call,”at knowing what “catches our eye”and tells us to “dig here now,” etc.One time is notContinue reading “January 02, 2024”

I have recently added “The Tao of Jesus” to my list of published works as an eBook on Amazon Kindle, and it should be up there in the next two or three days. I’ll let you know when it becomes available there.

Every New Year is seeing through the trees dimly,hoping for the best,so we say, “Happy New Year!”to encourage ourselvesin facing what’s coming,like it or not.I take heart in knowing,not what’s coming,but who is facing it.That would be us, all of us.And we have what it takes to do wellwith whatever comes our wayduring, and beyond,Continue reading “January, 2025”

Finding the wayis waiting to seewhat is called forand doing thatas it needs to be done,when and where it needs to be doneall the way along the way.If we don’t know what is called for,we wait for clarity.Everything flows from and leads to clarity.And it only take waitingto know what that is.This is the wayContinue reading “December 31, 2024”

We find the way by doing what is called for, when, where and how it is called for,and letting that be that.We become the way that way.Following the path we makedoing what needs to be done.And if we find that to be boring,we only have to waitfor something better to come along,and do what isContinue reading “December 30, 2024”

We have to know what we are seeking.I am seeking truth.Other terms for the truth I am seeking are:Integrity.Transparency. Authenticity.Genuineness.Realness.Sincerity.Honesty.Spontaneity.Openness…I am seeking”To live ‘As One Thus Come.'””To be the Christ.””To be the Buddha.””To be Myself.””Who I Am In Each Situation As It Arises.””Here, Now.”My Mission/Practiceis to live the truth that I am here, now,in serviceContinue reading “December 29, 2024”

There are problems I can’t do anything about.Things like this reflectionmake that bearable somehow. You might say that it takes my pain away.They provide breathing room,allowing me to catch my breath,shift my focusand take heart in the presence of beauty and wonderthat makes the insoluble contradictionstolerable,allowing me to do what I can do about theContinue reading “December 28, 2024”

Imagine yourself in this scene.What is to be done herebeyond being present with what is presentwith you?And doing what is called forfrom one situation to another?You might choose to stand or sit there,or walk through the scene,doing whatever occurs to youand seems to be appropriate to the occasion.Being one with the sceneas a participantdoing whatContinue reading “December 27, 2024”