Category Archives: 06/25/2020

There are people who think the Garden of Eden had latitude and longitude and evolution is a preposterous lie. I don’ t know how we all can hope to get together in more than a superficial and insignificant way and do anything in the service of a deeper good for human kind and the planetContinue reading “February 16, 2026”

Where would you go to be alive? Fully alive? Completely removed from the things that keep you from being alive? Completely immersed in the things that bring you to life? What brings you to life? What prevents you from being fully alive? Our work is to be fully alive. When we are fully alive, weContinue reading “February 15, 2026”

Projection is a psychological process of seeing “out there” what is actually “in here.” It is easily recognized by its “footprint.” The script, “X is Y.” Expresses a projection in action. “You are beautiful.” “You are stupid.” “She/He/It/Them/They are (Fill in the blank) are all projections. Projections are about us and our perceptions. They areContinue reading “February 14, 2026”

We cooperate with the time and place of our living by the way we respond to our environment, in tipping table servers say, or thanking the bus driver, or exhibiting a smoothly soothing attitude in the way we deal with the everyday affairs of life. Our attitude makes a difference. Transforming the world starts withContinue reading “February 13, 2026”

This is from 200 Zen Thoughts #3 On My Word Press Site: 106. Our intuition knows. We need to know how to know what our intuition knows–and how to apply it in the right way. We are back to the days of the Tao and knowing what the Tao know. They who knew in thoseContinue reading “February 12, 2026”

Frasier Snowden said, “The only true philosophical question is Where do you draw the line?” Human beings invented line drawing, apparently without knowing what they were doing, raising questions the natural world had never considered. Establishing boundaries, creating borders. One of the Old Testament’s commandments that did not make the top ten is my personalContinue reading “February 11, 2026”

We are waiting it out with the Trump reign, with no relief in sight. Oppression and absurdity take their toll, with half of the country cheering it on and the other half reeling under the weight of another day of the madness. Justice is meaningless with Trump in control and ICE on patrol, and votingContinue reading “February 10, 2026”

These are from 200 Zen Thoughts #3 on my WordPress Blog: 086. In living aligned with ourselves we will be living in sync with the Tao, Psyche, in doing the right thing in the right way at the right time in the right place. But. There is a catch. We will not be doing whatContinue reading “February 09, 2026”

We wake up each day to the adventure of seeing what the day has in store for us, wondering what awaits. Unless we are bound to a daily schedule, a monthly regimen, a sacred yearly routine we call “going to work.” In which case, we have to live around our obligations, duties, requirements, looking forwardContinue reading “February 08, 2026”

We belong to the time and place of our living. We are not here on vacation. We have duties and obligations in line with bringing ourselves forth, being who we are and doing what is ours to do here, now in each/every situation as it arises. What needs to be done? What needs us toContinue reading “February 07, 2026”

This is 058 of “200 Zen Thoughts #3 by Jim Dollar” on my WordPress Blog: The power to be who we are lies latent within us all awaiting our waking up to the truth of our own being and living in ways that are aligned with the thrust of our own heart and soul. TheContinue reading “February 06, 2026”