Category Archives: December 2021

01 We have to do our part in keeping ourselves in the middle of the path by returning again and again to the basics. Like a singer doing scales, or a runner running laps, we have to build a practice around mindfulness of the moment, being right here right now, siting, standing, walking in emptiness,Continue reading “December 16, 2021”

01 Things are the way they are because of two things: The Pain! Oh, the Pain! And the Terror! Oh, the Terror! The Pain of the Terror! The Terror of the Pain! That’s it. Disappear our pain and our terror, and life worldwide transforms instantly. What is the nature of your pain? What is theContinue reading “December 15, 2021”

01 What keeps us going? The next thing! We have no idea what it will be, or how we will respond to it. The possibility of new and innovative is never farther than the next thing away. The next thing stands before us as the Cyclops stood before Ulysses. Joseph Campbell said, “It took theContinue reading “December 14, 2021”

01 The Hero’s Journey is not to be distinguished from The Spiritual Journey, or from Growing Up. It’s all the same thing. And it is as simple as knowing what your interests are and serving them with your life. Which isn’t simple at all. Our interests are the first things to go. When we areContinue reading “December 13, 2021”

01 It is difficult to progress without digressing or regressing at the same time. Things balance out that way, so that the amount of function/dysfunction remains the same over time. There is something about balance and harmony, synchronization, stability, equilibrium, homeostasis that everything in the cosmos likes a lot. Everything is trying to reach aContinue reading “December 12, 2021”

01 The light comes on of its own volition, of its own accord. “The light shines in the darkness”–John “The darkness is the cradle of the light”–Rumi “In the darkest moment, the light comes on”–Campbell The darkness discloses, reveals, exposes the light. Sit in the right kind of emptiness, stillness, silence, (darkness), waiting, long enough,Continue reading “December 10, 2021”

01 Trust your luck, but do not push your luck, and when things don’t go your way, look on it as the luckiest thing that ever happened to you– and live as though it is so. Doing this will transform your life. And that will be the luckiest thing that ever happened to you. –0–Continue reading “December 08, 2021”

01 Seeing what needs to be done in a situation is the doorway to doing it. “Darkness is the cradle of the light.” — Rumi Before seeing is seeing not. And waiting in the darkness for the light to come on. The light comes on of itself. It is a property of light to beContinue reading “December 07, 2021”

01 There is what we do to pay the bills. And, there is what we pay the bills to do. It is never enough to just pay the bills. Even outrageous bills. Even bills for the sixth private jet, and the fifth private island, and the tenth yacht. If we aren’t doing the right thingContinue reading “December 06, 2021”

01 Everyone wants what they want. No one wants what they ought to want. No one knows what they ought to want. Everyone thinks that what they ought to want is what the Bible or their mothers or some substitute for the Bible or their mothers would tell them they ought to want. We haveContinue reading “December 05, 2021”

01 I hate vulnerability. I don’t know anyone who doesn’t. All of our problems arise from our opposition to vulnerability. We strive to make ourselves safe at all costs on every level. We over-react. And spin out of orbit, ricocheting off asteroids, crashing into the sun. All because we didn’t want to display/confront our vulnerabilityContinue reading “December 04, 2021”