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What are we doing?What do we think we are doing?What keeps us going?Where do we think we are going?What does it matter?To whom does it matter?Native American spirituality,Celtic spiritualityand Taoismall recognize the significance of seven terms:Balance and harmony,integrity, sincerity, spontaneity,original nature, innate virtues/attributes–and the importance of living in wayswhich integrate them into our life.I amContinue reading “December 30, 2023 -A”

We enlarge our perceptions,expand our perspectives,by avoiding the trapof the same old same oldand doing things we have never done before.What is the newest thingin your life?How often does new drop in for a visit?Change for the sake of changewill change things you neverwould have thought about changing.Shake up your life every six months.Just toContinue reading “December 29, 2023 – A”

I invite you to take up the study of silenceby way of experienceand inquiry/exploration/interviews/investigation/experimentation…Find out everything there is to know.Become an expert on silence.Let me know what comes of it.My hunch is that it is as closeto the Numen/Numinous/Transcendent/Ineffableas it is possible to be,and the ground of being.But, research is necessarybefore we declare it toContinue reading “December 28, 2023 – A”

We can relax in ourselves,trusting ourselves to knowwhat needs to be donein response to whatever happens.Clarity and direction areof the momentwhen we thrust ourselves into the silence/stillness/emptinessfrom which we comeand into which we are goingand in which we live.All good things are found thereby those who know and trust it to be so. –0–

To be free from doubtis to be free to doubt.To be free to doubtis to trust our abilityto deal appropriately with anything that arises.The gift of the Elder Wandis to free the wizardfrom the need of having the Elder Wand.To stand alone as one thus comein any situation as it arisesis to have what weContinue reading “December 26, 2023 – A”

I would like a sit-down talk with Jesusto explore what he thought he was doing.Continuing the work of John the Baptist is my guess.Assuming the roll of a prophetcalling Israel back to it’s covenant pledge to be the people of God in the Land of Promise.Repentance was nothing more involvedthan getting back to who theyContinue reading “December 25, 2023 – A”

This is a link to Truman Capote reading his “Christmas Memory” and is not to be missed!

If we changed our mind about what’s important,the world would be transformedimmediately.Perspective/perception are the Elder Wand.And we are not in controlof how we see what we look at.Or of what anything means to us.We are slaves/victims of our own wayof assessing what we asses to be reality.Propaganda and indoctrinationmake fools of us all.Our mind isContinue reading “December 24, 2023 – A”

What do you live to do? What engages you?Enthuses you?Enlivens you?What are your passions?What is your bliss?The source of your radiance?Your joy?What do you do with all your heart?Live the remainder of your lifeso that everything elsefalls into place around these things.Devoting yourself to these thingswith filial devotionand steadfast loyaltywill enable you to live inContinue reading “December 23, 2023 – A”

We come to lifewithin the contextof our lived experience,complicated by our wants and wishes,fear and desire,perceptions, perspectives, opinionsand expectations…We are hardly a “blank slate,”and need to erase much of what is thereto have a chance of waking upand doing what needs to be donewithout getting in the way.Psychotherapy is about erasing what’s thereand replacing itContinue reading “December 22, 2023 – A”

Live to see whatyou are capable of.Live in the serviceof the best you can imagine.In each situation as it arises.Without caring what your chances are.With no interest in having your way,or getting what you want,beyond having your waybeing living in the serviceof the best you can imagine,and getting what you want beingwhat needs to happeninContinue reading “December 21, 2023 – A”

Finding our placewithin what is availableand what is permittedand what is requiredis a dance that goes onthroughout our life.What we can get away withchanges with our contextand circumstances,and they are always in fluxas the times are constantly a-changing.War and natural disasterscreate their own vortex,impacting our world in ways that demand transitioningin mid-stride.Being able to imposeContinue reading “December 20, 2023 – A”