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”
Tag Archives: mindfulness
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”
August 06-B, 2022
If I could do one thing for you, I would increase your pain threshold. Our tolerance for the pain of life is the single most important thing about us. Increasing that gives us more latitude, flexibility, working room in dealing with the day’s deliveries. The way we take what comes determines the response we makeContinue reading “August 06-B, 2022”
November 08, 2020
03 Every photograph that works is synchronistic arrangement bringing the photographer together at the right time in the right place in the right light to compose the image that makes the photograph. Every photograph that works is a miracle in that way. Is the Tao creating wonder and amazement that we pass of with “PrettyContinue reading “November 08, 2020”
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