05 What do you do for the sake of doing it alone? Live to expand the list. When there is nothing in it for you beyond doing what you are doing for the sake of doing it alone, you are engaged in living for the experience, the expression, the wonder of being alive to lifeContinue reading “January 31, 2021”
Category Archives: January 2021
January 30, 2021
02 Making our peace with our life and living in the service of what is meaningful for us is a reasonable and attainable goal for each of us. Most of us want more than that. We don’t know what it would be except that it would be more than that. And the distance between whatContinue reading “January 30, 2021”
January 29, 2021
03 What we see is a function of how we look. How we look is influenced by our expectations and our past experience. We don’t walk fresh upon anything and know what we are looking at. Reality is an extension of our expectations and our experience. We cannot make sense of anything that is absolutelyContinue reading “January 29, 2021”
January 28, 2021
03 I thought I wanted to be a therapist for about fifteen minutes. Not quite as long as thinking I wanted to be a third-grade teacher. But with the same outcome: A quick and permanent end to thinking those things. Reality is all the guide we need. Ever. With the therapy thing, it became clearContinue reading “January 28, 2021”
January 27, 2021
03 The single most important thing you can do to improve your chances of living well upon the earth throughout the time left for living is to become accomplished in taking “No” for an answer. By “accomplished” I mean taking “No” for an answer when, where, and how it needs to be done the wayContinue reading “January 27, 2021”
January 26, 2021
01 The ideal human being, from my point of view, does what is theirs to do, and steps back, letting nature take its course. The ideal human being would not see money as the path to power– asking, “Power over whom? In the service of what?”– but as a means of providing the tools necessaryContinue reading “January 26, 2021”
January 25, 2021
04 If heart could be coached, everyone would be LeBron James. Books on how to play chess, and tennis, and on like that forever, are published and sold every year. Books on how to play anything (or live) with heart, are hard to come by. What is it with heart, that only a few peopleContinue reading “January 25, 2021”
January 24, 2021
05 If you cannot be vulnerable, you will be symptomatic all your life, and crazy as well. We are surrounded by vulnerabilities! There is no way we can be protected from them all! Everything worthwhile about us and about our life is strictly dependent upon our vulnerability threshold. The more vulnerable we can be, theContinue reading “January 24, 2021”
January 23, 2021
02c Living to do what the moment needs us to do is to put ourselves in the service of that which is greater than we are. It is the most spiritual thing on the planet, serving the moment, being alive to the here and now, being aware of the here and now, being present toContinue reading “January 23, 2021”
January 22, 2021
03 Living to be what the situation is calling us to be– doing what it is calling us to do– would flip our life around. Turn it inside out and upside down, kill us and resurrect us in one reality-transforming instant. As it is, we live to get the most out of every situation thatContinue reading “January 22, 2021”
January 21, 2021
04 What is worth doing for itself alone? Start there. Give yourself to the actions that are their own fulfillment and reason for being. Horseback riding, perhaps. Walking on a foggy morning through the woods. Reading stories to the grandchildren. Surely, your life is filled with things that you do for the joy of it!Continue reading “January 21, 2021”
January 20, 2021
03 Living aligned with our life and living in accord with the Tao is bringing our best to meet the day, like water seeking its way, not forcing its way, by responding appropriately, at the right time, in the right way, to each situation as it arises. That sounds simple enough. What makes it difficult?Continue reading “January 20, 2021”
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