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”
Tag Archives: mental-health
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”
August 15, 2025
We are capable of things we cannot imagine simply by relaxing into ourselves and opening ourselves up to each situation as it arises, allowing the situation to call us forth in the service of what is called for here, now. The old Taoist ideal of doing the right thing, in the right place, at theContinue reading “August 15, 2025”
August 12, 2025
We all are Psychic marvels, as is every other physical thing in the Cosmos. Psyche is the source of everything. And, if we are wondering what the point of it all is, the whole point is just for the joy of it. There is nothing to gain beyond being joyful over the experience of beingContinue reading “August 12, 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 04, 2025
This is the most bleak Fourth of July in my experience, and this is my 81st experience. The Constitution is out of vogue. The Bill of Rights is a laughter. The majority of the Supreme Court asks Trump how he wants them to vote. We have a king on his throne in the White House.Continue reading “July 04, 2025”
July 01, 2025
Silence steadies us and stabilizes us, grounds us and points the way. When Jesus said, “Pray always,” he was saying “Live out of the silence.” The silence is also emptiness and stillness. The three are one, like the Holy Trinity, and they connect us with all that is holy, and lead us to living livesContinue reading “July 01, 2025”
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