“The observer cannot be separated from the observed.” Where does experience stop and projection start? We see everything from the standpoint of “the way we see things.” How we see things makes things as they are. And we live in relationship with things and people as though they are the way we see them. AllContinue reading “November 07, 2025”
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November 06, 2025
Who are we? What are we about? We have to take Remembrance-Recognition-Reorientation breaks from time to time to regroup, recharge, and get back on the beam. It is easy to lose our way amid the complexity and confusion of the day-to-day. There is so much coming at us from all directions, it is easy toContinue reading “November 06, 2025”
November 05, 2025
I invite you to take up the practice of dropping into the silence (emptiness, stillness) at various points throughout each day without interrupting what you are doing. This is a simple matter of doing what you are doing while being intently aware of opening yourself to HOW you are doing it.Attend your attention and yourContinue reading “November 05, 2025”
November 04, 2025
Seeing, hearing, understanding, knowing, doing, being,expands into seeing what we look at,hearing what we listen to,understanding what’s what,knowing what’s called for in each situation as it arises,doing it as it needs to be done,when, where, and how it needs to be done,while being who we are,where we are, when we are,how we are,throughout what remainsContinue reading “November 04, 2025”
November 03, 2025
MAGA is the self-designated moniker of a gang whose primary identifying feature is the complete absence of anything resembling maturity of anyone embracing the title.Fascism and White Supremacy describe immaturity perfectly throughout the ages. There is not a grown-up in the group, though there are plenty of people old enough to be confused with one–exhibitingContinue reading “November 03, 2025”
November 02, 2025
Fitting what we love to do into each day gives us something to look forward to every day. I love to be surprised, and the days are always calling for unexpected responses to unexpected events, so I look forward to what the day has to offer that I didn’t see coming, wondering where I willContinue reading “November 02, 2025”
November 01, 2025
Magic is real. Mystery is everywhere. We only have to step away from our agenda to know that it is so–and to experience being swept up in the experience of being alive to the life that is waiting for us to live it, instead of striving to force ourselves into a life we have noContinue reading “November 01, 2025”
November, 2025
Being open to what is trying to reach us, get our attention, wake us up to what is Called for here, now is being alert to what is happening here, now, and what mysterious forces are at work in our life to turn us toward the things that are calling us to wake up toContinue reading “November, 2025”
October 31, 2025
It is our place to discover what we do best and what we like to do most. They may be the same thing, and they may be quite dif-ferent. And it is also our place to spend our life doing them along with all the other things we enjoy doing that spin off from whatContinue reading “October 31, 2025”
October 30, 2025
Right seeing, right hearing, right knowing, right doing, right being is all there is to it–and it is increasingly out of the question, because we have been overtaken by the noise and dust of the world. Bullied, you might say, into the new Dark Age where up is down, right is wrong and no oneContinue reading “October 30, 2025”
October 29, 2025
There is the God of theology, and there is “That Which Has Always Been Called God” beyond theology.Theology was invented by the Church of Rome over the 400 years between Jesus’ execution and the closing of the Canon which ended the amount of material that could be included in the Bible. The Church of RomeContinue reading “October 29, 2025”
October 28, 2025
We are paying the price for electing Donald Trump, and will be paying it for the rest of our life. This train wreck won’t fix itself, put itself back on the tracks and chug along to glory in our life time. We are on our own. It is up to us to put our lifeContinue reading “October 28, 2025”