Category Archives: 06/25/2020

To be free from doubtis to be free to doubt.To be free to doubtis to trust our abilityto deal appropriately with anything that arises.The gift of the Elder Wandis to free the wizardfrom the need of having the Elder Wand.To stand alone as one thus comein any situation as it arisesis to have what weContinue reading “December 26, 2023 – A”

I would like a sit-down talk with Jesusto explore what he thought he was doing.Continuing the work of John the Baptist is my guess.Assuming the roll of a prophetcalling Israel back to it’s covenant pledge to be the people of God in the Land of Promise.Repentance was nothing more involvedthan getting back to who theyContinue reading “December 25, 2023 – A”

This is a link to Truman Capote reading his “Christmas Memory” and is not to be missed!

If we changed our mind about what’s important,the world would be transformedimmediately.Perspective/perception are the Elder Wand.And we are not in controlof how we see what we look at.Or of what anything means to us.We are slaves/victims of our own wayof assessing what we asses to be reality.Propaganda and indoctrinationmake fools of us all.Our mind isContinue reading “December 24, 2023 – A”

What do you live to do? What engages you?Enthuses you?Enlivens you?What are your passions?What is your bliss?The source of your radiance?Your joy?What do you do with all your heart?Live the remainder of your lifeso that everything elsefalls into place around these things.Devoting yourself to these thingswith filial devotionand steadfast loyaltywill enable you to live inContinue reading “December 23, 2023 – A”

We come to lifewithin the contextof our lived experience,complicated by our wants and wishes,fear and desire,perceptions, perspectives, opinionsand expectations…We are hardly a “blank slate,”and need to erase much of what is thereto have a chance of waking upand doing what needs to be donewithout getting in the way.Psychotherapy is about erasing what’s thereand replacing itContinue reading “December 22, 2023 – A”

Live to see whatyou are capable of.Live in the serviceof the best you can imagine.In each situation as it arises.Without caring what your chances are.With no interest in having your way,or getting what you want,beyond having your waybeing living in the serviceof the best you can imagine,and getting what you want beingwhat needs to happeninContinue reading “December 21, 2023 – A”

Finding our placewithin what is availableand what is permittedand what is requiredis a dance that goes onthroughout our life.What we can get away withchanges with our contextand circumstances,and they are always in fluxas the times are constantly a-changing.War and natural disasterscreate their own vortex,impacting our world in ways that demand transitioningin mid-stride.Being able to imposeContinue reading “December 20, 2023 – A”

People who are afraid to diehave never lived.They have been dead all their life.And know it.And never had the courageto say, “To hell with being dead!”Because they were afraid to be alive.Fascists fit nicely into this category. Fascists are afraid of everything.Hence their infatuation with AR-15’s,and their need to kill everyonenot like they are.And whenContinue reading “December 19, 2023 – A”

People go on pilgrimages to sacred placesto find God,or to find themselves,or both.As though God is hard to findand they are hard to find as well,never mind that Jesus is said to have said,”The kingdom (of God) is spread out over all the earth,and people don’t see it.”God is as much in our back yardasContinue reading “December 18, 2023 – A”

Pray without words.Commune with The Mysterywith a silence too deep for words.Pray this image, for instance.Or the impact it has on you.Pray a memory.A dream.Pray your feelings.Your predominant emotion.Your rarely felt/experienced emotion.Your entire range of emotions.Pray emptiness.The dearth of emotions.Pray aloneness.Pray beauty.Pray horses,and dogs.Cats and whales.Hippos and marbles.Pray your dayas you live it,walk through it,contemplate it…PrayContinue reading “December 17, 2023 – A”

I recommend you follow this link to my published works,and give A Handbook For The Spiritual Journey a once over:https://jimwdollar.com/I hope it will be worth your time. –0–