02 The Holy Grail represents the full realization of the potentials that came with us from the womb. This is the culmination of The Hero’s Journey: Being Who We Are! Who we are capable of being! Fully Born, as one Thus Come, at last! The secret ingredient is compassion. Compassion for ourselves. Compassion for others.Continue reading “December 19, 2020”
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December 18, 2020
04 One of the first principles states: “Nothing can happen to us that is so bad that it cannot be made better– or worse– by the way we respond to it. And nothing can happen that is so good that it cannot be made better– or worse– by the way we respond it.” We holdContinue reading “December 18, 2020”
December 17, 2020
02 Happy is a state of being, an aspect of mind. A perspective, an outlook, an orientation, an attitude, a point of view. It is the way we look at what we see. Joseph Campbell called for “The joyful participation in the sorrows of the world.” And invited us to walk right into life asContinue reading “December 17, 2020”
December 16, 2020
02 We are not living to have our way. We are not living to do what we want. We are living to serve our destiny, to be who we are capable of being, to realize our potentiality, in doing what is calling us to do it– aligned with our original nature, in accord with theContinue reading “December 16, 2020”
December 15, 2020
02 We have interests and proclivities, inclinations, tendencies, preferences, penchants, passions, etc. that energize us, motivate us, stir us to action in ways that are unique to us. We care about things to a degree, and in a manner, that set us apart from other members of our family, and other members of the species.Continue reading “December 15, 2020”
December 14, 2020
03 It is easy to let someone else tell us what to do. To follow the herd. From the barn to the pasture, and back to the barn. Day after day. The work of being human is The Hero’s Journey– finding what is meaningful, not because it is supposed to be, but because it is!Continue reading “December 14, 2020”
December 13, 2020
02 Diane Osbon said, “There is a track for each of us.” A track. A path. A way. A beam. A course… And we know when we are on it, and when we are not on it. We know when we are resonating with our life, and when we are not. We know when weContinue reading “December 13, 2020”
December 12, 2020
03 We can care too much, and we can care too little. We can think too much, and we can think too little. We live on a continuum between too much and too little. Finding the Still Point, is as easy as riding a bicycle. Once you get it, you have it forever. Just thinkContinue reading “December 12, 2020”
December 11, 2020
03 What fills us? Where are we “filled to the brim”? Filled with life– with the experience of being fully alive? Where has that–where does that–happen to us? How do we respond? Tears? Laughter? Silence? … Those moments are “transparent to transcendence.” They are “thin places” (Parker Palmer) where the world of The Mystery atContinue reading “December 11, 2020”
December 10, 2020
04 Joseph Campbell said, “If you really want to help this world, what you will have to teach is how to live in it. And that, no one can do who has not learned how to live in it in the joyful sorrow and the sorrowful joy of life as it is.” We are alwaysContinue reading “December 10, 2020”
December 09, 2020
03 Joseph Campbell asked, “What are you going to do well?” There is our art, our gift, and our life. What are we going to do well, when it doesn’t matter? When no one is going to notice, or know? When it amounts to nothing more than “divinely superfluous beauty”? There is our art, ourContinue reading “December 09, 2020”
December 08, 2020
05 Every time and place has its own mood, its own character, its own sense of being in, or out of, the flow– the Tao– of life and being Some places are so dead redemption and resurrection are out of the question. I have to get myself walked out of those places. I expect youContinue reading “December 08, 2020”
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