Category Archives: 06/25/2020

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”

01 In my studied opinion, most of the people who are alive and have ever lived do/did so on the strength of diversion, distraction and denial. Which means they lived in the service of sex, drugs, alcohol and money to take their mind off their troubles and “pass a good time” while they waited toContinue reading “May 06, 2022”

The End of the 22-acre Woods The beginning of 480 single family dwellings plus a condo or two and all that comes with it, 40 feet to the north of where I live. Woopie. This machine is a tree-eater. It pushes trees over and grinds them up. It can eat the forest in a coupleContinue reading “May 03 B, 2022”

Curiosity is a super power. Asking all the questions that beg to be asked, saying all the things that cry out to be said, getting to the bottom of things that have no bottom, seeking, searching, knocking, inquiring, following hunches, looking for clues, sniffing out possibilities, seeing answers as the source of better questions, leadsContinue reading “May, 2022”

01 It is perspective all the way down, and Mystery at the bottom. Or, as Lao Tzu liked to say, “Darkness within darkness, the gateway to mystery.” We will never make sense of it. All the explanations and theories get in the way of enjoying the experience of Mystery. Once we get that it isContinue reading “April 29, 2022”