If you could be you for the rest of your life, what would you do? If I could be me for the rest of my life I would live for things like this: Today checking out at the grocery store, the young woman at the cash register (And with me that’s between 18 and 30)Continue reading “November 23, 2020”
Category Archives: The Church of What’s Happening Now
November 22, 2025
Carl Jung would tell us that our role in life is not to be the Buddha, and it is not to be the Christ, but that it is to be simply who we are. Jung’s complete focus was what he called “Individuation,” being who we are to be. He talked about “”The Primary Mask,” whichContinue reading “November 22, 2025”
November 21, 2025
It is up to us to do what we can with what we have to work with. I say, “Take it to the silence, no, take it to the stillness beyond the silence. And wait for some compelling urgency to rise up as the mud settles and the water clears, and call you to enterContinue reading “November 21, 2025”
November 20, 2025
The power of perspective cannot be overstated. How we see what we look at makes all the difference. And how we see when we look at our seeing–at what we see and how we evaluate it, so that we evaluate our evaluations–is the most important place to examine our perspective regarding how we are seeingContinue reading “November 20, 2025”
November 19, 2025
Wanting, desiring, fearing, buying, spending, amassing, consuming, having to have, acquiring, striving, pushing, wanting… When does it stop? When do we sit quietly, take stock, see what we are doing? Know what’s what and what’s happening and what is called for in each situation as it arises and do that when, where and how itContinue reading “November 19, 2025”
November 18, 2025
When I threw out theology all those years ago, I had to replace it with something that could serve as the core ground of existence, the “rock solid foundation” of who we are and what we are about, the Source of Life and Being. Initially, I referred to the bedrock of all that is “ThatContinue reading “November 18, 2025”
November 17, 2025 – B
I have posted a work in progress on my WordPress Blog, “Jim Dollar’s Published Works,” with the title, “Zen Thoughts.” An internet search should bring it up. It will sound a lot like you have heard from me already.
November 17, 2025
We are on our own when it comes to living a life worth the effort, and the older I get, the greater the effort on all levels. The compromises and trade-offs make walking to the mail box more of a chore than it once was, and just sitting in this scene and those like itContinue reading “November 17, 2025”
November 16, 2025
The right kind of silence is the one thing that will make the most difference-for-the-good-as-we-determine-good-in-our-life-over-time.Silence rights the boat that is our life. Guides the way. Grounds us in the way that is the way for us. Uncovers the truth of who we are and what we are about. Restores us our balance and harmony. ConnectsContinue reading “November 16, 2025”
November 15, 2025
There seems to be confusion regarding what the flag stands for. The Bill of Rights spells it out, but the Constitution itself is out of vogue these days. What’s with that? Who spits on the Constitution and supplants it with whatever he’s in the mood for? How did that attitude get to be President ofContinue reading “November 15, 2025”
November 14, 2025
How do we know what to do when? How can we be sure that the way we see things is the way things are? Why do we see things the way we see things? What guides our boat on its path through the sea? What makes us think that what we want is the bestContinue reading “November 14, 2025”
November 13, 2025
Prayer is communion by way of our intentionally shared presence with the source of life and being. It does not consist of words so much as the experience of being with That Which Is More Than Words Can Say, which is also That Which has always been called God. If you have been with meContinue reading “November 13, 2025”
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