Tag Archives: mindfulness

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”

January 12, 2026

There is what we control and what we do not control. Adjusting ourselves to the things we do not control is the most important trick in the entire Book of Tricks. How well we do that tells the tale. There is how things are and how we think about how things are, the way weContinue reading “January 12, 2026”

January 03, 2026

What would make the biggest difference for good in your life that is in your ability to effect? The one thing I can think of that would apply to all of us is emptiness, stillness, silence (One thing, not three) regularly applied frequently throughout the time left for living. Just sitting still, being quiet, watchingContinue reading “January 03, 2026”

December 16, 2025

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”

December 13, 2015

Don’t have a plan! By all means, do not have to have a plan! All thought out from every angle, the brain child of reason and logic, carefully crafted and put into place. What does logic know of psyche? Do they ever talk shop and trade secrets over coffee and donuts? Nod in passing? AttendContinue reading “December 13, 2015”

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”

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”

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”

May 12, 2025

What do we want from religion? Eternal life? Invisible assistance in having our way/getting what we want? The old Taoists sought to align themselves with the Tao or Wayin order to assist/participate in the flow of life and beingby doing what was called for in each situation as it arose–doing the right thing, in theContinue reading “May 12, 2025”

March 31, 2025

We have to make sense of our life. Who are we?What are we about?What are we doing here?Where are we going?What is going on?We are gradually waking upover the full course of our life,and yet, we are constantlyputting ourselves to sleep with the hypnotic repetitionof what we have been toldof the corporate story of ourContinue reading “March 31, 2025”

March 20, 2025 – B

We cannot think up our associations.Association is not imagination.The associations we make with cigarettes, say,or pipe smoking, or alcohol, or cameras, or oceans…are ours alone to make.No one can tell us what our associations areor ought to be.Our associations speak, reveal, disclose, display the truth of who we are.What associations, if any, do you makeContinue reading “March 20, 2025 – B”