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If you are waiting for your lossesto be made up to you,you are standing in a long linewith other losses accumulatingwhile you are waiting forthe original ones to be redeemed.Better just to let them goand let it be.Some parents are better than others,and some kids get the good ones,and others get the rotten ones.It isContinue reading “June 18, 2024 – A”

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“God” does not have to be, need to be, posited in any of it. In “God,” we find a well-developed projection of ourselves (Our idea of our “best self”) that is “believed to be ‘Out There’” but is actually only faith in faith. We could as well consider it to be faith in ourselves. ThereContinue reading “June 17, 2024 – B”

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I had a dream last nightdriving home the point that I have no idea of what I’m doing–I have a chant that goes:”I do not know what to do,I do not know what to do (Repeat)–and am stuck eternally with trustingmy intuition to find the way,the path,The Tao,through the darkness of the time and place,theContinue reading “June 17, 2024 – A”

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Ghetto Economics will be Trump’s calling cardif he is re-elected,stealing from the poorand giving to the rich.The Billionaire foundation paving Trump’s wayis composed of people in a Money Bubble,aware only of what they stand to gainwith Trump in office,and oblivious to what the peopleoutside that bubble stand to lose.That would be,for all practical purposes,everything. Me,Continue reading “June 16, 2024 -B”

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It comes down torevolves around,flows fromlistening to our intuition. There is never,was never,never will be,any more to it than that.The people who listen to their intuitionare who they need to be,doing what needs to be done,when/where and how it needs to be done.And the world is better off for them.Our calling is to live theContinue reading “June 16, 2024 – A”

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Intuition guides us along the way,past the withering exits to the Wasteland,disguised as shortcutsto Happy Ever After,beyond the off rampsto All Our Dreams Come True,through the darknessof lost hopeand bitter disappointments,to the realizationof oneness with balance and harmonyand the best we have to offeraligned with the heart of life and beingthrough the situationsand circumstances asContinue reading “June 15, 2024 – B”

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Waiting it out has a clear advantageover other options.Particularly over forcing the issueand going to war,and suicide,and alcoholism…Native Americans are waiting it out.Palestinians are waiting it out.LGBTQ people are waiting it out.People of Color,Descendants of slaves,Immigrants,Women,The poverty stricken,…The list is long of people who are waiting it out.And while they wait,they remember.They know.They will notContinue reading “June 15, 2024 – A”

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Jonas Salk said, “It is always with excitement that I wake up in the morning wondering what my intuition will toss up to me, like gifts from the sea. I work with it and rely on it. It is my partner.”This partnership is the heartof who we are, what we are about.We do not directContinue reading “June 14, 2024 – A”

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Ken Burns says “All we do is argue.”Jim Dollar says “Because we talk out of our heads all of the time.Talking out of our hearts–out of our intuition–disappears argument ‘like that.'”Talking out of our headsis talking about what we want and don’t want,what we like and what we don’t like,what we think about everything.Opinions areContinue reading “June 13, 2024 – B”

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We think it is about getting/having what we want.But it is about doing what needs to be done,when/where/how it needs to be donefor no other reason than because it needs to be done–with the gifts of our original nature,our innate virtues and virtuosities(The things we do bestand enjoy doing most),through the guidance/directionof our intrinsic intuitionandContinue reading “June 13, 2024 – A”

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I have taken up the project of creating business cardswith images I’ve taken that I find to be satisfying, like this one, with the following inscription on the back: jimdollar@me.comhttps://thinkasnap.com/profile/jim-dollar Original Nature. Innate Virtues.Intrinsic Intuition.Balance. Harmony.Integrity. Sincerity. Spontaneity.Emptiness. Stillness. Silence.Imagination. Reflection. Realization.Compassion. Generosity. Kindness I hand these out to people I have interaction with duringContinue reading “June 12, 2024 – C”

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