Category Archives: 06/25/2020

01 Joseph Campbell said, “The influence of a vital person vitalizes.” “The way to save the world is to bring it to life, and the way to do that is to find in you own case what brings you to life, and to do that– to be alive yourself.” How alive are you? How longContinue reading “May 26-B, 2022”

Originally posted on Jim Dollar's Photography and Philosophy:
01 Angel Oak 06 11/04/2013 Oil Paint Rendered — Angel Oak Park, Johns Island, South Carolina We are here to make the best of it. To bring our best forth to meet it– to meet what meets us in each situation as it arises, without caring…

Originally posted on Barbara Crane Navarro:
Yanomami child playing in the river (before the invasion of gold miners)??photo: Barbara Crane Navarro «?My grandparents fished to feed the community in this river. Now it’s just sludge, gasoline, diesel and mercury contamination. Fish die and our Yanomami land is dying.? We Yanomami suffer, we don’t have peace.…

01 We are here to make the best of it. To bring our best forth to meet it– to meet what meets us in each situation as it arises, without caring what our chances are. How we meet the moment is the only thing that matters. If the moment walks all over us and leavesContinue reading “May 25, 2022”

01 Friedrich Nietzsche said the goal of maturity is to live as one who is directed from within, “like a wheel rolling out of its own center” (Joseph Campbell). I prefer the metaphor of a gyroscope turning out of its own center, maintaining its own balance and harmony amid the chaos and upheaval of itsContinue reading “May 23, 2022”

01 The world is as we make it out to be and we cannot get beyond our idea of how things are to how things actually are. We don’t know how things actually are. How they appear to be is as close as we can get. This plays nicely with: No expectations! No agenda! NoContinue reading “May 19-C, 2022”

01 No expectations. No agendas. No opinions. These are the Three Adjustments enabling us to just see what the circumstances call for– to just see what needs to be done– in each situation as it arises and do it when, where and how it needs to be done, with the virtues that are ours fromContinue reading “May 19, 2022”

01 We have to live with the life we have lived, measured by the degree of sincerity and integrity we brought to life in the way we lived. By the degree of balance and harmony we enabled. By the amount of spirit, energy and vitality we exhibited and enabled in the people around us. ByContinue reading “May 16, 2022”

01 We will never turn life to our way of liking. We take it as it is and do our best to manage the dichotomy between how it is and how we want it to be– how well we do that depends on the nature of the circumstances. Wanting to be taller (or shorter) isContinue reading “May 15, 2022”

01 I have always been a sap for sincerity and integrity– I think because they were so absent in my early experience, I sought it out like it was the Philosopher’s Stone. Turns out, it is. Sincerity and integrity, I mean. People use sincerity and integrity, across the planet, throughout the universe, as a frontContinue reading “May 14-B, 2022”

01 Perspective for me is one of the deep mysteries of personality. We have depths we cannot probe. Things are always rising up to surprise, shock and confound us. Dreams befuddle us. Instant reactions to events catch us off-guard. Why we see things as we do, why we think what we think is important, whyContinue reading “May 09, 2022”

01 René Descartes’ classic, “I think, therefore I am,” was flipped by a guy at a bar in Minneapolis, “I think, therefore I think I am.” Solidifying me in my already solid opinion that there are no proofs for verifying the reality of reality. It’s an illusion we keep afloat among ourselves in the absenceContinue reading “May 08, 2022”