Category Archives: September 2021

01 Live to be good for nothing. Live to do what is good whether it does any good or not. Live to be who Jesus was, who, when he died, left more evil in the world than was there when he was born. Who left more poor and hungry people in the world than wereContinue reading “September 30, 2021”

01 There are things we need to do without knowing why. When those things come along do them! Don’t delay looking for reasons! Don’t talk yourself out of doing them because you can’t explain doing them! Having to give people “one good reason why” you are doing what needs to be done has kept moreContinue reading “September 29, 2021”

01 We worry about what is going to happen to us and those we love. We hope for the best, and fear the worst, and lose the time that is at hand wishing and dreading. Now is the only time there is. Now is the time to let ourselves out of the box. To openContinue reading “September 28, 2021”

01 Where do you belong? Where do you have no business being? Where do you feel at home? Where are you out of place? How do you spend your time in ways that are right for you? How do you spend your time in ways that are wrong for you? Are you going with theContinue reading “September 27, 2021”

01 Sit still. Be quiet. Pay attention. To all that arises in the silence. Be curious about what catches your eye. See where it goes. Every day. Throughout the day. You are getting to the bottom of it. Of it all. Especially of YOU. The curiosity part is the best part. If you are End-driven,Continue reading “September 26, 2021”

01 Prosperity is having what we need to do what needs to be done. We think of prosperity as having more than we need so that we do not have to do anything. We think having it made is not having to do anything we don’t want to do. We think “being free” is beingContinue reading “September 25, 2021”

01 Everybody wants a better life. That’s where the similarity ends. Everybody has a different idea of what that means and how to achieve it. Which results in the mess everything is in. A lot of people think having their way would result in a better life. A lot of people think having more moneyContinue reading “September 24, 2021”

01 Having expectations, having desires, having resentments, having fears, having anger, having duties and responsibilities keep us from being alive. Being alive is being being balanced and in harmony with ourselves, our life, and one another, living with sincerity and integrity, having energy, spirit and vitality, and acting in the service of what needs toContinue reading “September 23, 2021”

01 As we reduce the noise and the complexity in our life, we are likely to discover there isn’t much there. Take away the drama and what’s left? This is a stark realization of how little we are doing with the time left for living. And, it is a call to spend it with thingsContinue reading “September 22, 2021”

01 To know what it is time for– and not for– is true knowing. One time is not as good as another. What is it time for here and now? What is it not time for? Teachers cannot teach us these things. Books are of no help. Videos and movies are useless. Lectures and sermons,Continue reading “September 21, 2021”

01 We have to be empty even of the desire to be empty. That is the contradiction at the heart of life and being. Live the contradictions! “If I contradict myself, then I contradict myself!” said Walt Whitman in Song of Myself. Though that isn’t the exact quote. That’s another thing, trying to be exactContinue reading “September 20, 2021”

01 When we fall in love with someone, we are falling in love with the aspects of ourselves– our ideal self–our original self– that we see reflected in the other person. They remind us of the us we don’t know we are. “I see a bit of me in you, but that’s not all IContinue reading “September 19, 2021”