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Listening to our bodyis listening to our intuitionspeaking to us though our body.Intuition is a Right Brain process,and the Right Brain isn’t much for language–so it speaks with images in our dreams,and with physical symptoms and sensations,trying to get our attentionand our cooperation.Everybody knows what the “Uh-oh Feeling” is.Where is that located in your body?SeveralContinue reading “June 06, 2024 – A”

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The foundation of theology is “I And Thou.”The foundation of spirituality without theology is”Thou Art That.”The movement is from relationshipto identification/inclusion.The movement to identification/inclusionis grounded in the realizationof the oneness of all things.That oneness is experiencedby consciously reflecting onthe “Zone of Confusion”that exists between the “I” and the “Not I,”or the “I Am” and theContinue reading “June 05, 2024 – C”

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Hermeneutics is at the heart of who I am.From the Greek word “Hermes,” the messenger of the gods. The Roman name for whom is “Mercury.”As Hermes, the Master of Interpretation, Knowing what’s what and what matters most,Hearing, seeing, understanding, knowing, doing, being…As Mercury, Trickster, play-on-word master, who cannot be pined down,locked up, explained, known, defined,Continue reading “June 05, 2024 – B”

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It comes down to what we make of it.To what we do with it.To who we become because of it.We are it.It is us.Where does that line lie?And my death,our death,is a continuation of it.It goes on.And on, and on…And so do we–in an altered state of being,but we are a form of energy,a collectionContinue reading “June 05, 2024 – A”

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How to see what we look at,how to look at what we see…The essence of hermeneutics,the foundation of life and being,realization, sanity, stability and wonder.Lost in too much talking,explaining,instruction,words and noise.

The days keep coming.I try to minimize the impactof one damn day after anotherby staying out of the way,making it find me.I reduce my vulnerabilityby limiting my exposure.I don’t ask for it.Silence and solitude, kid.Silence and solitude.Silence and solitudemake the days work for their pleasure.It helps to be unemployed.Compassion also helps.Compassion for the damn day.AContinue reading “June 03, 2024 – B”

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Our attitude can keep a bad stuationfrom getting completely out of hand.Maintaining manageability is a worthy goalfor each situation as it arises.We do that by treating things with no greater degree of seriousnessthan they deserve.And we do that by refusing to have anythingat stake in any situation that might arise.There is nothing to gain andContinue reading “June 03, 2024 – A”

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I hand out business cardswith a photograph I’ve taken on one sideAnd these terms on the other side:Balance. Harmony. Original Nature. Innate Virtues (What you love to do and enjoy doing most). Intrinsic Intuition. Integrity. Sincerity. Spontaneity. Vitality. Emptiness. Stillness. Silence. Imagination. Reflection. Realization. Compassion. Generosity.Kindness. Flow. Looking/Listening.Seeing/Hearing. Knowing. Trusting. Being. Doing.With these instructions:”Reflect onContinue reading “June 02, 2024 – B”

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Things play themselves out over time.Everyone with a vested interest in the outcomeinfluences the resultbut no one is in control,and however things unfoldwill leave a lot to be desired,thus, there is no outcome actually,just an eternal continuation of “circumstances begetting circumstances,”as the old Taoists observed around 500 BCE.Even the Bible understands the absence of control,withContinue reading “June 02, 2024 – A”

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My intuition seems to be a spontaneous response to my life-situationthat is reliably “there”without me thinking it into action.Before my intuition,I am like the Movedin response to the Mover.And I’m wondering if perhapswe projected God onto our intuitionin the long ago and far awaywhen we didn’t have much morethan our intuition coming between us andContinue reading “June, 2024”

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Finding our way to the things that need to be done,and doing them in the right way,in the right place,at the right time,is all that is asked of us.And we get plenty of practice in the art,because it is asked of usin each situation as it arises.We can begin practicing recognizingsituations as they arise.We spillContinue reading “June 01, 2024 – A”

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There are more things we can do nothing about than there are things we can do something about.Guess which things we spend the most time thinking about.Make sense of that for me(Another thing nothing can be done about).Making sense of things is way out of reach.Making our peace with things we can’t make sense ofshouldContinue reading “Summer Months, 2024”

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