Category Archives: June 2020

Anything that takes the present moment away from us is evil. Anything that brings the present moment vibrantly alive for us is good. Anything can take the present moment away from us. Anything can bring the present moment vibrantly alive for us. Anything can be evil. Anything can be good. The present moment is allContinue reading “June 21, 2020”

I do not know of any of AA’s slogansthat I take exception to.And, If I did,or ever do,I would/will take that as evidenceof my having not lived long enoughunder the right conditions,and that with a little more timeand a shift in circumstances,I will see the sharp truth of that one as well. Which gets usContinue reading “June 22, 2020”

We are here now and want to be somewhere else. Maybe, just anywhere else, and maybe, a clear and specific THERE! NOW! There are two ways to do it. 1) Leave here and go there. 2) Be here, now and see where it goes. Which option applies to our current situation depends on what isContinue reading “June 23, 2020”

The old Alchemists thought they could change the world to suit themselves if they could but find The Philosopher’s Stone, which was their equivalent to the Elder Wand, and would serve them as the threshold to wonders unimagined, but (with the Stone in hand) suddenly possible. Nobody in all the world, in all the worldsContinue reading “June 24, 2020”

Lao Tzu, who wrote the book, couldn’t say what The Tao is, beyond “The Way.” He said it can be experienced/known, but no one can say what it is. The same can be said of Grace. We all have had experiences with Grace at work in our life. We can say what happened, but weContinue reading “June 25, 2020”

02 Improving our relationship with ourselves improves our relationship with our life and with the people in our life, spontaneously, automatically, naturally. Carl Jung said, “There is within each of us, another, whom we do not know.” It is not too late to begin getting to know who we also are. Getting to know whoContinue reading “June 26, 2020”

I have three questions for you. They all can be asked in reverse. So, that’s six questions. All six are getting at the same thing. 1) What is the nature of your pain? 2) What is the source of your life? 3) What is the source of your pain? 4) What is the nature ofContinue reading “June 27, 2020”

Being true to ourselves requires us to determine– to decide– when and where to move beyond the self we have been being into the self we must become. Growing up is so very hard to do. And transition points are hell all the way to the grave. Who are we? Who must we be? WhoContinue reading “June 28, 2020”

02 A land where everyone is glad to be who they are, and to be doing what was theirs to do, seeing things as they are, knowing what needs to be done and doing it in each situation as it arises, day in and day out, all their life long is found only in theContinue reading “June 29, 2020”

The grounding reality of white supremacy is white inferiority. The grounding reality of hatred is a wasteland of emptiness born of resentment and rage. The grounding reality of ruthlessness and malicious intent is fear and aloneness untouched by, immune to, distrustful of, kindness and grace. You cannot love someone who cannot be loved. Or better,Continue reading “June 30, 2020”