Category Archives: 06/25/2020

We are told what to believe, but no one can give us our opinions. Of course, they try, but to be genuine, opinions have to come from within. Belief from without, opinions from within. Articles of faith are opinions that take themselves seriously. And, when we don’t know what we think or believe, it’s greatContinue reading “February 02-A, 2023”

Jesus said, “You shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.” Begging the questions, “Free from what?” “Free to do what?” And Pilate’s inquiry, “What is truth?” Which Jesus left hanging through all these long years of truthlessness. Which will continue as long as we look for truth “out there,” when itContinue reading “February 01-A, 2023”

I am taken by the flow of life through the circumstances and situations of each day– and how so few people seem to be aware of it. My sister-in-law, for instance (You know the one I mean), sees every moment as an opportunity to assert her way upon whatever is happening, with no clue regardingContinue reading “January 31-D, 2023”

Believe anything you want– it doesn’t matter what– as long as you do what needs to be done, when, where and how it needs to be done, in each situation as it arises without an eye on what’s in it for you. How often do those who “Believe in God the Father Almighty, maker ofContinue reading “January 31-B, 2023”

The worst thing that ever happened to you can be the best thing that ever happened to you. The best thing that ever happened to you can be the worst thing that ever happened to you. Depending, of course, upon how you respond to what happens to you. How we respond to what happens toContinue reading “January 29-B, 2023”

Our work can be an expression of our original nature and innate virtues/traits/character, and it can be what we do to pay the bills in order to serve/express/exhibit our original nature and innate virtues “in the background,” “on the side,” “in our spare time.” Too often, we have to “walk two paths at the sameContinue reading “January 28-A, 2023”

Joseph Campbell said the path of maturity is that of “breaking out of the psychological bondage to the culture into a self-responsible authority with the courage to accept and express one’s own thoughts about one’s own life.” We are to become self-directed, self-propelled, self-sustaining human beings in our own right. How, here’s the thing aboutContinue reading “January 27-A, 2023”

Throw away the theologies, the doctrines, the dogmas, the sutras, the dharma, etc. In their place recognize integrity, sincerity, spontaneity, emptiness, stillness, silence, balance, harmony, original nature, innate virtues/traits/characteristics, spirit/vitality/life. Remove noise/complexity/drama. See and do what needs to be done here and now when/where/how it needs to be done for no reason other than itContinue reading “January 23-B, 2023”

What practice do you follow to maintain/recover your balance and harmony? How do you sustain your focus? Your direction? Your connection to the central pole, the axis mundi, of the turning/heaving/crashing/chaotic world? What brings you back to who you are– to your original nature and the innate virtues/traits/characteristics that are yours from birth? An abidingContinue reading “January 23-A, 2023”

There is what we have, and there is what we need, and there is what we wish we had, and there is what we think we need. And here/there we are. How to be right about what we have and what we need is our life’s work. The truth is that we have what weContinue reading “January 21-B, 2023”

We have what it takes to rise to any occasion and do what needs to be done in each situation as it arises. The problem is that we don’t want to. We don’t want to is our only problem. If we only wanted to do whatever is asked of us, we would have no problems.Continue reading “January 21-A, 2023”

Coming to Jesus is coming to ourselves, is coming to. Jesus had to come to Jesus by coming to himself, by coming to. In the wilderness, in the lonely vigils at night, in Gethsemane, on Golgotha. We all have to follow the same path, in coming to terms with the discrepancy between how things areContinue reading “January 20-B, 2023”