This bird knows what it is doing, where it is, what is going on. This bird knows what its business is and is about it to the fullest extent of its being. Would that we could say the same things about ourselves. My associate pastor and I would ground ourselves by asking, whenever it wasContinue reading “December 16, 2025”
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December 11, 2025
Integrity is foundational. We live to be who we are and to do what is ours to do. We live to be true to ourselves in all we do. We live to discover who we are. To know what we are called to do and do it. What is “us”? What is “not us”? WeContinue reading “December 11, 2025”
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”
October 19, 2025
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”
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”
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 21, 2025
Experience is required to know/understand/comprehend. It cannot be said, told, explained, defined… Psyche is leading us to knowing throughout our life. We are not old enough to get it until we are old. And then it takes talking to/with people who are consciously seeking to grasp Psyche’s attempts at communion. Waking up. Enlightenment–is Psyche breakingContinue reading “September 21, 2025”
September 20, 2025
We have to be available.What it means to be available is this:”Those who would be my disciple have to pick up their cross everyday and come with me.”Cross-bearing is making the routine sacrifice/practice of handing over what we want in the service of what needs to be done, when, where and how it needs toContinue reading “September 20, 2025”
September 19, 2025
We are the source of everything that isn’t a rock or a tree. Including God. We made it all up, right out of our own Psyche/imagination. We told ourselves stories that scared us into making up other stories to calm us down. Hate, anger, fear and greed are the origin of most of our problemsContinue reading “September 19, 2025”
September 18, 2025
We are all that stands between us and the Void.That being the case, we might think we would be doing a better job laying a foundation with ourselves that will allow us to deal with what’s coming up, instead of looking the other way and hoping for the best. If the best were in play,Continue reading “September 18, 2025”
September 05, 2025
The relationship between the flow of life and emptiness, stillness, silence is “right there,” for all of us to experience any time.The place of silence (emptiness and stillness) in the life of the species from the beginning of consciousness until now is a topic I would like to have explored by those in position toContinue reading “September 05, 2025”
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