If you look closely at the water it will move for you. It is an optical illusion, of course and. How much of our life is? How much of what we think is so is not so? If we say something about anything, anyone, and what we have said says more about us than itContinue reading “March 31, 2026”
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March 27, 2026
Understanding “projection,” not as a psychological defense mechanism where by we imagine others to be as we are, and see in them characteristics that are actually true of us, but as a tendency we have to project our bias regarding an entire class of people as being true of those people. Racism is a whiteContinue reading “March 27, 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”
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”
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”
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”
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