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The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator with its four pairs of opposites: Thinking/Feeling Extraversion/Introversion Sensing/Intuition Judging/Perceiving is one way of conceptualizing the eight fundamental/foundational forces shaping the way we are, and therefore, the way things are, worldwide through the ages. Life is but a dance of opposites clashing over how things are. How things are is aContinue reading “September 19, 2023 – A”

We are our responsibility. We are in charge of our balance and harmony, our integrity, sincerity, spirit, energy, vitality, mind, body, heart-soul– within the forces of destabilization, disruption, disharmony, diversion, distraction, disinterest, denial, chaos and lethargy. It is as easy as our answer to the question: What do we live to do? There is whatContinue reading “September 18, 2023 – A”

When Carl Jung was asked if he believed in God, he replied, “I do not believe–I KNOW. When you KNOW you know the God beyond Gods, beyond theology, beyond sin and redemption, beyond words beyond thinking, beyond reason, logic, intellect, discourse, etc. And relax into knowing what you know, and have always known: The physicalContinue reading “September 17, 2023 – A”

Reflection is waiting to see what occurs to us in the presence of openness to perception. What makes us think that the way we think is the way to think? That the way we see is the way to see? That the way we live is the way to live? That the way we perceiveContinue reading “September 16, 2023 – A”

Being among the dunes is one of the quietest places in my experience. The sun rises over silence and stillness, yet the dunes are moving, transforming themselves, all the time. Constant motion has never been so still. So apparently lifeless. A place where nothing ever happens here. It is a wonder to behold, and leadsContinue reading “September 15, 2023 – A”

Emptiness/Stillness/Silence are the real Holy Trinity. Ask anyone who knows, they will all tell you the same thing. Even the Bible chips in with “Good things come to those who wait.” And from Native Red Cloud on “X”, quoting Chief White Eagle, Ponca, we get: “Go forward with courage. When you are in doubt, beContinue reading “September 14, 2023 -A”

We are always placing the emPHAsis upon the wrong silLAble, as the old saying goes. We are always fretting about our vulnerability, and never say a thing about our invulnerability, when, in all truth, we are invincible. We may be scared and rumpled but we are sill ticking. After all these years. Ticking is whatContinue reading “September 13, 2023 – A”

We find our own way to what has life for us– no one can tell us that. We know for ourselves what is “Yes!” and what is “No!”, without knowing “Why?”, or caring “Why?” And anyone who tries to get us to explain usually does so with the motive of arguing us out of ourContinue reading “September 12, 2023 – A”

Staying connected with the flow of life through the crises, turmoil, noise, drama and trauma of life is the greatest trick in the Encyclopedia of Tricks. Something is always coming along to knock us off-center into the far-off center of the Wasteland. We never become accustomed to the sister-in-law (You know the one I mean)Continue reading “September 11, 2023 – A”

In conversation with Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers said,”There is this wonderful image in King Arthur where the knights of the Round Table are about to enter the search for the Grail in the Dark Forest, and the narrator says. ‘They thought it would be a disgrace to go forth in a group.’ So each enteredContinue reading “September 10, 2023 – B”

I take heart in not knowing anyone who has done it, or is doing it, right. The old ditty nails it: There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behooves any of us to find fault with the rest of usContinue reading “September 10, 2023 – A”

We cannot care what our chances are. We have to live as though we are going to live forever with no problems we cannot manage and step into the moment, offering what is called for with the gifts that are ours to share and let that be that, moment after moment. We rejuvenate ourselves withContinue reading “September 09, 2023 – A”