If you look closely at the water it will move for you. It is an optical illusion, of course and. How much of our life is? How much of what we think is so is not so? If we say something about anything, anyone, and what we have said says more about us than itContinue reading “March 31, 2026”
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March 28, 2026
It is easy to think that the dead are better off but. It is ridiculous to suppose so because we can’t get to the facts without being dead. And if we think the point of living is to have it made with joy and gladness all around, that is also ridiculous because there is nothingContinue reading “March 28, 2026”
March 27, 2026
Understanding “projection,” not as a psychological defense mechanism where by we imagine others to be as we are, and see in them characteristics that are actually true of us, but as a tendency we have to project our bias regarding an entire class of people as being true of those people. Racism is a whiteContinue reading “March 27, 2026”
March 24, 2026
Psyche is known best via intuition and dreams (Both nighttime dreams and day dreams). Psyche makes herself known to us in these ways, and becomes known herself. What has always been referred to as “the presence of God” is exactly the same thing as “the presence of Psyche.” I prefer “Psyche” to “God” because thereContinue reading “March 24, 2026”
March 19, 2026
I fell in love with a camera when I saw a 35mm Single Lens Reflex camera on a pool side table in a black-and-white made for TV movie as I walked through our living room on my way to the kitchen when I was a Junior in college. I felt the attraction throughout my body,Continue reading “March 19, 2026”
March 04, 2025
Enthusiasm and vitality are not constant, regular, daily experiences. Boredom, ennui and monotony are much more reliable and frequent occurrences. And that’s a problem because we are addicted to the rush of wonder and delight, to the point of artificial applications of highs from a bottle or a pill. We will do anything to feelContinue reading “March 04, 2025”
March 03, 2026
It comes down to our relationship with Psyche and with Intuition, and they may be the same thing. How can we deepen, enhance, expand, enlarge our relationship with, awareness of, Psyche and Intuition? That is the only thing that matters in the time left for living. Reflecting in emptiness, stillness and silence will help. TakingContinue reading “March 03, 2026”
February 26-B, 2026
We know things we don’t know how we know. If we sit quietly without thinking but being aware of the things that come to mind “out of nowhere” and following the things that have an attraction about them, we will come into realization “like a bolt from the blue.” And we will not have thoughtContinue reading “February 26-B, 2026”
February 05, 2026
How we live in response to the vicissitudes of life tells the tale. IS the tale. Life happens and we respond. And that is all there is. We generally respond in light of what we want to happen. Wanting and wanting-not lead the way in determining how we live. We want life to be likeContinue reading “February 05, 2026”
January 30, 2026
The phrase, “after a certain age,” is one that is used frequently in doctors’ offices after a certain age. It means “these things can be expected,” “this symptom is not unusual,” “don’t let it bother you”… Those Who Know Best don’t talk to you that way in your 40’s and 50’s, but by your mid-seventies,Continue reading “January 30, 2026”
January 24, 2026
There is what we do to live, and there is what we live to do. Occasionally these may be the same thing. There are artists who support themselves with their art, and musicians who make a living with their music. Most of us do what we love by paying the bills doing what we don’tContinue reading “January 24, 2026”
January 16, 2026
A Philosophy of Health by Jim Dollar A healthy lifestyle is more than eating well and exercising. It includes how we set limits, draw lines, establish boundaries—and bear the pain of living within the within the environment of everybody else on the planet doing the same thing. The way we live has implications for usContinue reading “January 16, 2026”
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