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I am glad to recommend Jeremy Taylor’s book “The Wisdom of your Dreams” as a guide for exploring your dreams in their role asthe way our Right Brain communes with our Left Brain in its psychospiritual way: https://www.amazon.com/Wisdom-Your-Dreams-Unconscious-Transform/dp/1585427543/ref=sr_1_1?crid=N6BPEKO4CR5I&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.6fYMGTMzbe5rRrHFDsHaVXF_xCyAo78sOu9do4CBmCZHC1YAchaVI11LqvLEPBQw1ZU_FA454HWr7W9fOIbXPcxJrysRDdK4FCqvRzfm7NGCGeAQFfLnnpC_7ds3WwTufcTQYq9mRomUBd-GADGXLYTPCy0rltymoxvFtqu1WklujcvBp82ALAWKtcSFZ9pzHYMgsczsT3IzI0jo9dtAOiO568Jg6rQpMG-BJBto84k.j4X6m_5nT5bz6avNpmHOkDIg-h5z4P-cKE0vrPwlOqs&dib_tag=se&keywords=jeremy+taylor+books&qid=1709921250&sprefix=jeremy+tay%2Caps%2C127&sr=8-1

Live without expectations or opinions.Don’t be looking for “what’s in it for me.”Don’t keep score.Or worry about your prospects.Or live judgmentally.Just see what’s whatand what’s called for in response,and cover what you can of thatout of the gifts of your original natureand your innate virtuosities(The things you do best)in each situation as it arises,your entireContinue reading “March 08, 2024 – A”

If we aren’t getting kinder with age,we are wasting our time.What’s more important than kindness?Or, these days, scarcer?Kindness is welcoming,attentive,and it listens.Where do you go to find listening?Everybody is everywhere expressing an opinion.The opinion wars, I call it,finding something not to likeabout everything.And everybody.Kindness left years ago it seems.Probably looking for a safe place toContinue reading “March 07, 2024 – A”

We can orient ourselvesin the service of what needs to be done here/nowby attending our breathing,and finding the place of emptiness between breathsand continuing to breathewhile waiting in the emptinessfor a felt (in our body)senseof what is being called forand moving in that directiontrusting our original natureand our innate virtuositiesto respond naturally/spontaneouslyto the situation asContinue reading “March 06, 2024 – A”

Letting come what’s comingand letting go what’s goingis living with an appropriate degreeof “working distance”between ourselves and our life,enabling us “to do what needs to be done,”as in shooting Old Yeller when the time comes.As in “Holding them close and letting them go”when our children reach the ageof being their own selves,going their own wayinContinue reading “March 05, 2024 – A”

When Jesus said,”You shall know the truthand the truth shall make you free,”he was talking about knowingthe truth of ourselves.The truth of who we areand what we are about.The truth of our original natureand of our innate virtuosities.The truth of what’s what with us.The truth that we are born of Godwith no original sin (WhatContinue reading “March 04, 2024 – A”

Finding what we needto do what needs to be doneis always a matter of being quiet and waiting out the emotion of the momentfor clarity and peace.We tend to default to the left hemispherewith its rational structuring of lifeto think our way throughwhatever is threatening our balance and harmony,but routine can be waylaid by theContinue reading “March 03, 2024 – A”

I’m no longer taking anything seriously, which I take to be the lesson of the Buddha under the Bodhi Tree,remaining unmoved by desire/fear/angerand being enlightenedby the realization of the powerinherent in treating everythingwith a complete lack of seriousness.The Buddha’s followers, of course,treated him with absolute seriousness,and his insight was lost inthe rules and regulations ofContinue reading “March 02, 2024 – A”

Heart.Intensity.Relentless.Intention.Anyway.Nevertheless.Even So.UpstagesSo What?Who Cares?Why Try?What’s The Use?What’s The Point?What Difference Does It Make?By way of the old Buddhist strategy of”Turning the light around,”and asking, So what? of So what?Who cares if nobody cares?Why not try?Why let apparent uselessnessget in the way?The point is doing what needs to be done,when/where/how it needs to be done,in theContinue reading “March 01, 2024 – B”

We carry the secrets of our own destinytucked into our DNAand accessed via our Right Brain through trance states,meaningful coincidences,nighttime dreams,daytime visions,powerful hunches,nagging calls to attend absurd missions,propitious accidents,sudden compulsions,and all other forms of guidanceat the disposal of our Other Sidein its effort to wake us upto who we areand what is ours to doevenContinue reading “March 01, 2024 – A”

We enter the silenceempty of emotion/agenda/expectation…and wait for what will emerge/appear/arise of its own accordfor us to work within making associations and connectionsand following where it leadsto realization/recognition/understanding–the farther shore of reflection.Propelling us onto the field of actionto will and to do according to the flowof our understanding of what is called forand asked ofContinue reading “March, 2024”

Seeing what we look atand knowing what’s whatwithout opinionor expectation, plansor agendas,but with clarityand understanding,balance and harmony–and doing what is called forin ways appropriate to the occasionin each situation as it arisesno matter whatall our life long,would do it I think.May it be so for us all!Always and forever!Amen!May it be so! –0–