The meaning of a thing, anything, everything, is what it means to someone, everyone. There is no intrinsic meaning anywhere in/to anything. It is all imposed, projected, imagined. When someone declares, “It’s all meaningless!”, they say it as though the meaninglessness of everything is very meaningful to them. It all cannot be meaningless if itsContinue reading “October 19, 2025”
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October 08, 2025 – B
Anything can serve as a symbol of the Psyche, just as anything can serve as a symbol of anything–because the meaning of anything is the meaning we subscribe to it. It is what we say it is. This is true of everything from the beginning of things. Nothing means anything of itself. Everything means whatContinue reading “October 08, 2025 – B”
October 07, 2025
Striving to make things better makes things worsein a lot of ways. The moral of this story is to sit it out.Ride it out. Bear the pain. And the best way to do that is to develop a sense of humor. The people in the worst painrarely have anything in the way of a senseContinue reading “October 07, 2025”
October 04, 2025
How well we live is how well we respond to our environment–how well we do what is called for in each situation as it arises. We live to do well with our life. To do right by our knacks and abilities and the gifts of our original nature, our innate imagination and inherent intuition. WeContinue reading “October 04, 2025”
September 27, 2025
It can get to be too much like that (snaps fingers), but.”It” is only a matter of perspective.All it takes is turning the light around.The trick to turning the light around is found in working withcaring and not-caring, wanting and not-wanting.We can care too much about the wrong things.We can want too much of theContinue reading “September 27, 2025”
September 16, 2025
The Buddha saw “Peaceful abiding, here, now,” as the foundation of “having life and having it abundantly.” I call it “Looking out the window.” When I sit, I sit looking out the window, at the focal point, the foundation, of “having life and having it abundantly.” Everywhere can be the vehicle/Portkey/threshold/doorway to “peaceful abiding, here,Continue reading “September 16, 2025”
September 08, 2025
I think we all are, more or less, part of the dream awaiting realization. We are, in a sense, “a band of brothers and sisters,” bringing each other forth, waking each other up, being what each other needs for the process of becoming who we are, doing what is ours to do.We are one withContinue reading “September 08, 2025”
August 16, 2025
Each situation has its own direction and flow that has to be recognized and taken into account. Forcing action that is not conducive to the situation as a whole creates a disturbance in the flow that has impact and implications for the balance and harmony and wellbeing of the here, now and the not yetContinue reading “August 16, 2025”
July 12, 2025
Walking slowly with our thoughts through the fresh greens of spring awakens hope and confidence in our ability to meet the day on the day’s terms, see what is called for and do what needs to be done about it, when, where and how it needs to be done, and let that be that. TheContinue reading “July 12, 2025”
July, 2025
Growing up and doing what is called for in each situation as it arises is all there is to it. All there is to our life. It is more difficult than it might appear to be.Growing is the hardest part. We all grow up against our will. That is what growing up is. Learning toContinue reading “July, 2025”
June 30,2025
Waiting to know IT when we see it,and trusting ourselves to know what to do about it when we do–and in the meantime what do we do while we wait?Waiting is IT for me,and watching,seeing, hearing, knowing, doing, being.That has been IT,and I have had a good time doing IT.Making this photograph,these photographs, was aContinue reading “June 30,2025”
June 22, 2025 – B
If I had everything I needed to live my life as it needs to be lived, I would do it exactly as I am doing it. I have everything I need and this is the life that needs me to live it. And it is going to carry me along the path I need toContinue reading “June 22, 2025 – B”