Here and Now – Jim Dollar's Photography and Philosophy

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”

December 19, 2020

02 The Holy Grail represents the full realization of the potentials that came with us from the womb. This is the culmination of The Hero’s Journey: Being Who We Are! Who we are capable of being! Fully Born, as one Thus Come, at last! The secret ingredient is compassion. Compassion for ourselves. Compassion for others.Continue reading “December 19, 2020”

December 11, 2020

03 What fills us? Where are we “filled to the brim”? Filled with life– with the experience of being fully alive? Where has that–where does that–happen to us? How do we respond? Tears? Laughter? Silence? … Those moments are “transparent to transcendence.” They are “thin places” (Parker Palmer) where the world of The Mystery atContinue reading “December 11, 2020”

December 10, 2020

04 Joseph Campbell said, “If you really want to help this world, what you will have to teach is how to live in it. And that, no one can do who has not learned how to live in it in the joyful sorrow and the sorrowful joy of life as it is.” We are alwaysContinue reading “December 10, 2020”