Category Archives: 06/25/2020

Our presence can be restorative, healing, uplifting, encouraging, comforting, etc. just by the way we carry, present, share ourselves with the world.It isn’t a matter of trying, but of being–without being aware of being any way at all.”Just being ourselves,” “present as one thus come,” as the Buddha and Jesus did it. But this meansContinue reading “August 04, 2025”

This is a photograph of a postcard I took in the mid-eighties when we were living in Amory, Mississippi. Amory was built as a railroad town, halfway between Memphis and Birmingham, with a wheel house for repairs on locomotives, and it had a train flair with postcards and train fare in restaurants and shops, andContinue reading “August 03, 2025”

As extensions of The One,we all are The One,and can easily rely upon the power of The One to be all we needto rise to meet whatever comes our wayalong the way.The power of The Oneresides in such thingsas good luck,curiosity,humor,good faith,resiliency,forthrightness,perspective,attitude,perception,projection,assumption,observation with detachment/disengagement,emptiness-stillness-silence,knowing where/when/how to draw lines,set limits,restrict unwarranted intrusions into our space/life,knowing whereContinue reading “August 02, 2025”

Wanting and not-wanting lead the way–and need to get out of the way so that we might knowwhat is called for in each situation as it arises, and do that, where, when and how it is called for,and let that be that until the next thing is called for, etc.How do we know what isContinue reading “July 31, 2025”

A statement floating around my corner of the internet is this:”Words are projections.” That’s a stunning jolt to all of our worlds. I believe it to be so because how can we get outside of our experience in order to evaluate our experience and validate what we presume to be so? Thus, what we thinkContinue reading “July 29, 2025”

If we want to find the right king of people, we only have to be the right king of people and they will find us.Why don’t we all make it our life’s work to be the right kind of person? All it takes to know what constitutes the right kind of person is to makeContinue reading “July 28, 2025”

There are people in charge of things who have no qualifications for being in charge of anything. Who have impure motives and malevolent intentions. And are a threat to everyone they perceive to be not like them. And the rest of us have no way of protecting ourselves from them. This may be the wayContinue reading “July 27, 2025”

I’m sending my images to a stock photography company, thinking that I would prefer that they collect dust on an external hard drive in a cardboard box in one of their closets than in one of my closets, which would become one of my daughters closets in due time. It is my way of eternalizingContinue reading “July 26, 2025”

What guides our boat on its path through the sea?It can’t be “I want.”What does wanting know?There is nothing like wanting to screw things up worldwide forever.If we are at the mercy of wanting, we would be better off if we just stop right now and don’t do another thing until we can get wantingContinue reading “July 25, 2025”