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Finding our way to The Way one situation at a time. I don't know how great it will be, but I expect it will be interesting, and I look forward to it going on past all reason because wonder is just that way. Are you coming or not?

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Category Archives: 06/25/2020

June 14, 2021

01 The person, real or fictional, with whom I identify, and in whom I see myself reflected “to a Tee,” is Tevya in The Fiddler on the Roof. Tevya IS the fiddler on the roof– trying to maintain his balance and harmony, and stay in tune with what he is doing and what needs toContinue reading “June 14, 2021”

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June 12, 2021

01 Friedrich Nietzsche said that mature people are “a wheel rolling out of its own center.” I prefer the image of a gyroscope turning out of its own center, maintaining its balance and harmony through chaos, tsunami, hurricane, earthquake, devastation and the complete loss of everything. The person who is mature in this respect hasContinue reading “June 12, 2021”

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June 10, 2021

01 What are we doing with our life? Who are we becoming through the process/experience of being alive? How mindfully do we live? How conscious are we of living? Of being alive to the process/experience of being alive? What makes one day different from another? What do we mean/intend by the life we are living?Continue reading “June 10, 2021”

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June 07, 2021

01 We all are looking for what works. The tragedy is that we all know what works, and it isn’t splashy enough for us. We want something else to work, and spend our lives trying to make something work that isn’t going to work. And we know it, but maybe if we try harder… AndContinue reading “June 07, 2021”

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June 03, 2021

01 It is a psychological saw that we need to stand out and fit in, and between those polarities lie all of our problems. Fitting in is being like those we aspire to be like (Or are afraid to not be like). Standing out is expressing our natural self in the way we go aboutContinue reading “June 03, 2021”

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June 02, 2021

01 If you are waiting for things to make sense, you are standing in the wrong line. There isn’t a line. Things do not make sense. Coming to terms with that positions you well to make it the rest of the way. Now, you only need to square yourself up with doing what needs toContinue reading “June 02, 2021”

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June 01, 2021

01 There is a price to be paid for doing it– and for doing it the way we do it. Whatever “it” is. Democracy carries a price tag. “Freedom isn’t free,” as the popular catch phrase goes, though the people saying it rarely apply it to themselves. It applies to wearing masks during pandemics asContinue reading “June 01, 2021”

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May 28, 2021

01 It all starts with and flows from our being in balance and harmony with our life, meaning our situation in life, our circumstances, our context, our here and now. Being in balance and harmony with here and now, moment by moment, in each situation as it arises, is the most important thing. That positionsContinue reading “May 28, 2021”

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May 14, 2021

01 Balance and harmony are the best we can do. Spirit, energy, vitality are traveling companions with balance and harmony. Together, they form the foundation of life and being. The adamantine rock of human existence. The Five Friends are the Hope of The World. Why do we put all the emphasis, effort, focus, time andContinue reading “May 14, 2021”

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May 13, 2021

01 If we had someone to listen to us, it would be easier for us to hear what we have to say. We aren’t taught how to listen to ourselves, and we grow up strangers with “the other” Carl Jung was talking about when he said, “There is, in each of us, another whom weContinue reading “May 13, 2021”

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May 06, 2021

01 We all crave the freedom to do and to be with no clear notion regarding doing what, being what. It is as though we are being pushed to do something, to be somehow, without knowing what or how. What to do? How to be? The possibilities are endless. Where do we begin? Not this!Continue reading “May 06, 2021”

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April 24, 2021

01 The most important thing is what needs to be done moment-by-moment in each situation as it arises. Take care of the moment! The moment matters most! Doing right by our moments adds up to doing right by our life. Nobody can do better than that. What did you miss, thinking about something else, inContinue reading “April 24, 2021”

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