Our life is about living into who we are no matter what. When we are blocked in that development, side-tracked, hijacked, prevented from knowing and being ourselves, there is hell to pay, seen exhibited before us in the eruption of drug and alcohol addiction, physical, emotional, psychological symptoms wrecking the health of the world, becauseContinue reading “July 31-C, 2022”
Category Archives: July, 2022
July 31-B, 2022
There is only one measure of success. It is how you answer the question, “How alive are you?” The quality and degree of your life is the only thing that matters. Money matters least of all. The question here is, “What are you doing with your money?” In order to improve the quality and degreeContinue reading “July 31-B, 2022”
July 30-B, 2022
Anything is bearable with meaning, nothing is bearable with out it. We are alive, vital and vibrant with meaning. Dead, empty-eyed and vacant without it. Where do you find meaning in your life? How often do you relish and enjoy it? Spend time with what is meaningful. Do the things that are meaningful. Give meaningContinue reading “July 30-B, 2022”
July 29-B, 2022
We cannot change our mind about what is important. Our mind has a mind of its own. Our mind will change itself about what is important when the time comes. Until then, we wait and watch in the right kind of emptiness, stillness and silence, in order to know the time of realization when itContinue reading “July 29-B, 2022”
July 29-A, 2022
If you want things to click into place in your life, you have to stop tying to force them into place. You have to not know what “in place” means, and allow your life to show you what it means. We cannot live the life we want to live and live the life our lifeContinue reading “July 29-A, 2022”
July 28-B, 2022
Arthur Schopenhauer talks a lot (In “The World As Will And Representation”) about “The Will to Life,” without mentioning the Will to Power, or the Will to Create, or the Will to Have/Own/Possess, or the Will to Explore/Investigate/Inquire/Understand or the Will to Know/Do/Be… And I don’t think we generate any of these out of ourContinue reading “July 28-B, 2022”
July 27-A, 2022
That there is a willing force at the heart of life– at the heart of all living things (Whether they have an actual heart or not) is certainly difficult to deny. Life is so abundant, for one thing. There are tiny toads all over my yard these days. The toad hatch started about a weekContinue reading “July 27-A, 2022”
July 26-A, 2022
There is what we want to do, and there is what needs us to do it whether we want to or not. How do we pare our life out between what we want to do and what needs to be done? How do we decide when to do what? I never go anywhere without myContinue reading “July 26-A, 2022”
July 25-A, 2022
The basic life strategy is not to avoid the pitfalls. It is to see what we are doing and what needs to be done in each situation as it arises, and live to be what the situation needs us to be with sincerity and integrity, in the service of our original nature and the innateContinue reading “July 25-A, 2022”
July 24-B, 2022
“Light is dying to the west…” “An end to another day…” “Leads us all to wonder, how many are left…” Are all so melancholy, gloomy, depressing, sad, typical of our predictable way of assessing our situation. Sunset here is sunrise there. Going is always coming. The end of the rainbow fails to imagine the continuationContinue reading “July 24-B, 2022”
July 22-C, 2022
The point of life is to be fully alive in the time and place of our living– in each here/now of our living. What interferes with that, prevents it? Wanting more of this and less of that, and something else entirely. The here/now is rarely good enough just as it is. Our preferences get inContinue reading “July 22-C, 2022”
July 20-A, 2022
What needs to be heard is what needs to be said, but, who needs to hear what needs to be heard? It would shake their foundations and ask hard things of them. It would denounce their sacred assumptions and require of them truthful living. Awakened living. Illumined living. Living transparent to themselves, self-aware, with sincerityContinue reading “July 20-A, 2022”
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