Author Archives: jimwdollar

People who are afraid to diehave never lived.They have been dead all their life.And know it.And never had the courageto say, “To hell with being dead!”Because they were afraid to be alive.Fascists fit nicely into this category. Fascists are afraid of everything.Hence their infatuation with AR-15’s,and their need to kill everyonenot like they are.And whenContinue reading “December 19, 2023 – A”

People go on pilgrimages to sacred placesto find God,or to find themselves,or both.As though God is hard to findand they are hard to find as well,never mind that Jesus is said to have said,”The kingdom (of God) is spread out over all the earth,and people don’t see it.”God is as much in our back yardasContinue reading “December 18, 2023 – A”

Pray without words.Commune with The Mysterywith a silence too deep for words.Pray this image, for instance.Or the impact it has on you.Pray a memory.A dream.Pray your feelings.Your predominant emotion.Your rarely felt/experienced emotion.Your entire range of emotions.Pray emptiness.The dearth of emotions.Pray aloneness.Pray beauty.Pray horses,and dogs.Cats and whales.Hippos and marbles.Pray your dayas you live it,walk through it,contemplate it…PrayContinue reading “December 17, 2023 – A”

I recommend you follow this link to my published works,and give A Handbook For The Spiritual Journey a once over:https://jimwdollar.com/I hope it will be worth your time. –0–

Community interferes with our developmentas much as it assists and enables it–and we have to walk the linebetween too much community influence in our lifeand too little.You might sit down withthe Westminster Confession of Faithsome rainy afternoon,for an encounter with what too much community can do.A slow walk in the rainthrough a patch of localContinue reading “December 16, 2023 – A”

Stop right now trying to arrangethe life/life styleyou want to live.And trust yourselfto the Mystery!Better yet,thrust yourselfinto the hands of the Mystery!And live from therein all that you do!The Mystery is beyond words.Beyond concepts.Beyond grasping.Beyond understanding.But.Quite capable of being known.And trusted.And loved, revered, adored.And realized/recognizedas one with uswhen we are livingat one with the Mystery.WeContinue reading “December 15, 2023 – A”

Trial and error, kid. Trial and error.Feel your way along,learn what works when/where/how–and what doesn’t.Dance with your lifeand the music of the moment,becoming one with time and placein doing what is called for,when/where and how,and not what you want to doregardless of the occasion,in spite of the circumstances.Will is never free,but is always to beContinue reading “December 14, 2023 – A”

Finding our wayis a matter of allowing our wayto show us the wayinstead of figuring out what it is.Our way shows us the wayby letting us walk into stone wallsand blind canyons,and take dead end roads,and wander forever in wastelands,and realize againthat we do not know what we are doing.The lesson is to be awakeContinue reading “Winter Months, 2023 – 2024”

He is walking into his lifefor the joy of it,for the thrill of it,for the satisfaction of it,and to be able to talk about itfor the next 50 years.We all should live like this everyday.Except for the talking about it part.Everyone would be talking about it.But to be able to talk about it,about doing whatContinue reading “December 13, 2023 -A”

It has taken me a long timeto learn that it comes down to,depends upon, flows from,integrity,sincerity,spontaneity,emptiness,stillness,silence,listening/hearing,looking/seeing,knowing/understanding,what is called forand doing what needs to be done about itin each situation as it arises,all our life long.For the joy of doing itand the satisfaction of having done it.No matter what.I see Jesus’ death on a crossto beContinue reading “December 12, 2023 – A”

What would be most helpful to youat this point in your life?What is most helpful to meis communion/conversation with peoplewho are interested in the questionsI am interested in–and reading what they have writtenis a form of communion/conversation.Native Americans are saying things I’m interested in.And old Taoists from 500 BCE.And Japanese poets from 1200 CE.Life hasn’tContinue reading “December 10, 2023 – A”