04 Shamanism, you could look this up, is the world’s oldest religion starting up between 10,000 and 5,000 BCE. Hinduism and Taoism come in next from about 5,000 to 2,500 BCE. From at least 2,500 BCE Taoism is documented as saying “It all comes down to doing the right thing in the right way” (orContinue reading “October 18, 2020”
Category Archives: October 2020
October 17, 2020
04 Joseph Campbell, speaking about his college days on the tract team at Columbia, “I lost two races that were very important to me because I lost the still place. The race meant so much that I put myself out there to win the race instead of to run the race, and the whole thingContinue reading “October 17, 2020”
October 16, 2020
–0– 02 If we want to see, we have to see that we are not seeing. And then, we have to see what we are not seeing. We do that best by sitting quietly. Silence is the source of The Source, and the threshold to all seeing/knowing, doing/being. It all begins with silence, and proceedsContinue reading “October 16, 2020”
October 15, 2020
02 What isn’t working for you? Where did you get off the track? What are you seeking? What would make things right? How are you kidding yourself? What would it take to stop? There has to be a reckoning. A coming to terms with how things are. An owning up. A turning. Carl Jung said,Continue reading “October 15, 2020”
October 14, 2020
06 Our place, as conscious egos, is to live as guardians, protectors, defenders, and servants of the Source, the Origin, of our life and being. If I asked you to “Go to the Source,” where would you go? If I asked you to describe the location, what would you say? If I asked you toContinue reading “October 14, 2020”
October 13, 2020
03 Martin Palmer said that the Tao is simply getting things done in the right way– the right way of going about doing something. Anything. Everything. The only thing standing between us and doing things the right way is us. Before we do anything, we only have to stop and remember to do it theContinue reading “October 13, 2020”
October 12, 2020
05 Always the first response, regardless of what happens: “Well, now. What can we do with this?” Everything about our life is given to us so that we might play with it and see what we can make of it– of what we can become thanks to it. Everything is a vehicle for our ownContinue reading “October 12, 2020”
October 11, 2020
02 Trump is forever whining about how unfairly he is being treated. I take that to mean he thinks he should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, and be accorded the honor and admiration he thinks he deserves. Whatever he thinks, he recognizes the importance of fairness and bemoans not being granted his share. ItContinue reading “October 11, 2020”
October 10, 2020
04 The work is ours to do alone. Sitting. Listening. Looking. Seeing. Hearing. Feeling. Trusting. Risking. Doing. Being. Becoming. We grow up on our own. Against our will. Because it is called for. And is the best of all our available options. All that we have been told about how things are is not howContinue reading “October 10, 2020”
October 09, 2020
03 Waiting for the mud to settle and the water to clear, it is important to exhibit the kind of stillness and confidence in the process that creates the atmosphere in which the mud can relax and trust itself to gravitational forces it cannot understand, but can allow to work its magic in assisting thingsContinue reading “October 09, 2020”
October 08, 2020
02 The most important commandment in the Old Testament didn’t make the top ten, though it lends itself to an interpretation that makes it #1 even there. Seeing “The Lord Thy God” in each of our neighbors would put “Thou shalt have no other gods before me” in the place of, as Jesus would say,Continue reading “October 08, 2020”
October 07, 2020
03 We live our way to the truth of who we are coming to terms with the truth of how things are, of how the world is, of how life is, of the way things work moment-to-moment, one situation at a time, one day at a time, over the full course of our life. TheContinue reading “October 07, 2020”
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