Author Archives: jimwdollar

The world is filled with places that have no more promise or hope than this scene at the end of a dirt road in North Carolina. But. For all its forlornness and its forever going no-where-ness, I find it to be beautiful, serene, centering, grounding, and an invitation to sit and stay for a while.Continue reading “March 23, 2026”

Wanting is the biggest block to being there is. Being simply drops into emptiness, stillness and silence and waits for clarity about what’s what and what is called for and what needs to be done about it, when, where and how. Does it, drops into emptiness, stillness and silence and waits for clarity… In eachContinue reading “March 22, 2026”

Getting up and doing what is called for, where, when and how it is called for, in each situation as it arises is just what we do. If we go on vacation, we do what is called for, where, when and how it is called for even on vacation. There are no days off. WeContinue reading “March 21, 2026”

It requires emptiness, stillness and silence to find our way to our intuition. Emptiness is achieved by disengaging ourselves from everything we meet in the stillness and silence. When we sit quietly, we immediately begin to generate internal noise that we escape only by drinking whiskey straight from the bottle. All of the escapes, diversions,Continue reading “March 20, 2026”

This gives me 13 eBooks on Amazon Kindle, and each one is going to be the last one from here on out. I will be interested to see what that number comes to. And the hoot is that I have never written any of them in terms of banging away, working hard at it. IContinue reading “March 18, 2026”

Ambition, aspiration, incentive, initiative, etc., are all supposed to be what drives our ability to succeed in our careers, and if we aren’t trying to make it big in the world, what’s the point? The point is to be clear about success from a financial perception being different from success from a spiritual standpoint ofContinue reading “March 17, 2026”

The essential, primary, value of emptiness, stillness, silence in gaining clarity and realization, enlightenment, awareness, knowledge and understanding regarding what’s what and what is called for here, now, so that twe know the right thing to do when, where and how to do it in each situation as it arises is foundational and absolute throughoutContinue reading “March 16, 2026”

Knowing what is called for, when, where and how it is called for is a matter of seeing what we look at and knowing what we know in each situation as it arises, and that is a is matter of living out of the emptiness, stillness and silence in all times and places. And thatContinue reading “March 15, 2026”

The Buddha said, “Don’t listen to ME! Listen to YOU!” Jesus said, “Why don’t you decide for yourselves what is right?” (Luke 12:57) This leaves us listening to ourselves and doing what we know is called for, and doing what we know needs to be done in each situation as it arises. No?

The cover to my latest eBook on Amazon Kindle. I am having trouble uploading the cover file there, but it is a snap here. Things can be funny that way. And settling into the way things are and doing what is called for even so puts us on the way of redeeming what can beContinue reading “March 13, 2026”

Alan Stacell said, “I paint like a dog wags its tail.” What do we do that way? What is ours to do the way tail wagging is a dog’s to do? My father smoked and drank burbon and Coke. Not quite the idea but, as close as he could come to it. I look outContinue reading “March 12, 2026”