Category Archives: October 2021

01 It does not matter how we feel. It matters what we do. We are to do what needs to be done, when it needs to be done, where it needs to be done, the way it needs to be done, because it needs to be done, regardless of how we feel. “Feelings follow action,”Continue reading “October 14, 2021”

01 What is the present situation asking of us? That is all we need to know. And do. We know it by being aware of the time and place of our living. We can do that by emptying ourselves of our opinions, our judgments/evaluations, our expectations, our disappointments, our fear/anxiety/worry, our wants/desires (Even our desireContinue reading “October 13, 2021”

01 Thin places are everywhere all the time. The invisible world is the foundation of the visible world, the grounding source of all that is. And doorways/thresholds/portkeys from this world to that world are as close as sitting still, being quiet. Mythos predates logos by ten million years. Instinct. Intuition. Imagination. Symbol. Metaphor. The Numen.Continue reading “October 12, 2021”

01 When it is time to go, everyone knows it, and everyone goes. How do they know it? We will never get to the bottom of it. We don’t know how we know what we know. Know it. Do it. That’s the rule. When we know something needs to be done, and don’t do it,Continue reading “October 09, 2021”

01 We feel our way along. Our body leads us, in cahoots with our original nature and its instincts and intuition. We arrive with what we are born with, and what we pick up on the way. The “Uh-oh Feeling” is everybody’s go-to pitch coming out of the pen. When that is working for us,Continue reading “October 08, 2021”

01 Our own instinctive/intuitive sense of what needs to be done– of what is called for– here and now, in each situation as it arises which is evoked by the moment eliciting our spontaneous, sincere, response to the time and place of our living in the field of action, is as close to the experienceContinue reading “October 07, 2021”

01 Everything is waiting for the time to act. That is not true. In a perfect world, everything would wait for the time to act, and our world is far from that. In our world, we go to the loo when it is convenient, whether or not we need to go. As if! That isContinue reading “October 06, 2021”

01 Rumi said, “Darkness is the cradle of light.” The Jewel is in the lotus, and the lotus is in the slime. In time, the Jewel is in the slime– IS the slime. And the slime brings forth the Jewel. In the far extreme lies the opposite extreme. The more different we become, the moreContinue reading “October 05, 2021”

01 What needs to happen in a situation becomes apparent in time. If we wait too long to be sure, however, it becomes what should have happened there. The time to act is a tight window, and we have to be attentive in an interested kind of way, and not in a panic-driven, obsessive/compulsive kindContinue reading “October 04, 2021”

01 Resonance leads the way. Reason, logic, thinking, planning, scheming… not so much. Wanting? Not at all. We can want what we have no business having. How do we know? We don’t know how we know! Knowing WHAT we know is all we need to know! Sit still. Be quiet. Pay attention—- to what arisesContinue reading “October 03, 2021”

01 In every situation there is what needs to happen, what can happen, what will not happen, and what happens. What determines what happens is a matter of time and chance, which the good book says “happens to us all.” What it doesn’t say is “all the time.” We are here, now, by virtue ofContinue reading “October 02, 2021”

01 We are built for a certain way of life. Our integrity and our sincerity depend upon– and therefore require– our being aligned with, and living in accord with, the life that we are built to live, the life that waits on us to live it. We cannot live just any life, and fit, andContinue reading “October 01, 2021”