2022-C

July 10-B, 2022

10,000 things are in our way, necessitating our return to the emptiness, the stillness, the silence, waiting for the mud to settle and the water to clear, the noise to diminish the complexity to wain, in order to know what needs to be done, where, when and how, and do it, time after time, “withoutContinue reading “July 10-B, 2022”

July 09-C, 2022

The frustrations of life need a lot of silence to be silenced. We need to sit quietly more often than we do, in more quiet than we are often allowed. Noise and bustle seem to be the orders of the day, every day. Because, I think, the other side of noise is recognition, realization, knowing,Continue reading “July 09-C, 2022”

July 09-B, 2022

We are always trying to find our way. Circumstances overwhelm us. The noise of the 10,000 things gets in our way. The dust of the world kicks up complexity and complication. Distractions abound. We wake up again in the Wasteland wondering what’s now, what’s next, where do we go from here… Always the answer isContinue reading “July 09-B, 2022”

July 08-B, 2022

“Without contrary is no progression,” said William Blake in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. Our opposites, inconsistencies, contradictions, polarities define us, identify us, form and shape us, bring us forth full-born into the world of duality and denial. Where do you cancel yourself out? X-out yourself? Fail to be who you are by beingContinue reading “July 08-B, 2022”

July 08-A, 2022

What’s in it for God? What is God getting out of all this? Do you think God is having a good time? Just one Woopie Doo after another? Think God skips, whistles and dances everywhere all the time? Think anybody ever asks God how things are going? And listens to what God might have toContinue reading “July 08-A, 2022”

July 07-B, 2022

The Wasteland is everywhere people are living inauthentic lives cut off from their original nature and the innate virtues that are theirs at birth. The Wasteland is everywhere. +++ The world could be redeemed/transformed “like that” (Snaps fingers) if people would simply be who they are/were at birth. Jesus said it: “Unless you turn andContinue reading “July 07-B, 2022”

July 06, 2022

01 Ah, put me back there and let me paddle around, looking for compositions, relishing the moment, dancing with my soul, in love with the world… Ah, but. Time moves on to other moments, some just like this one only different, few better, some much worse, and we move with time through them all. LettingContinue reading “July 06, 2022”

July 05, 2022

01 We have to trust ourselves to know what needs to be done until it becomes apparent that we don’t. And then, we have to trust ourselves to know what needs to be done until it becomes apparent that we don’t. And so on, like that. We learn to know what needs to be doneContinue reading “July 05, 2022”

July 04-B, 2022

01 If we had known then what we know now about the laws of physics and the nature of the universe, it would be a different world on every level. We are cursed by what we are bound to, the vision of our ancestors about how things are and what needs to be done aboutContinue reading “July 04-B, 2022”

July 01, 2022

01 Adjustment, Accommodation, Acceptance, Compromise are the marks of aging well. They are emphasized with references to flowing water, snow-laden Spruce trees, boats on the ocean and leaves in the wind. We do our best to make the best of what comes our way. Getting up and doing what needs to be done, no matterContinue reading “July 01, 2022”

July, 2022

The nature of the spiritual quest is a shift in perspective that allows us to see how things are without being overwhelmed and undone. We see into the heart of things, grasp the nature of things, know what is true and what is also true, and are essentially okay with that knowledge. The camera canContinue reading “July, 2022”

This is the parent page of blogs I will post over the third quarter of 2022. I trust that you will find something here that is helpful to you along your way. We reduce our vulnerability by reducing our exposure, on one hand, and by making our peace with the fact of our vulnerability, noContinue reading “2022-C”