I will be using this space to post excerpts from my e-book, “A Handbook for the Spiritual Journey,” available on Amazon as a Kindle book, and available for free on my WordPress site, “My Published Works.” This is a 2012 revision of my paperback published in 2002 with the title, “The Evolution of the IdeaContinue reading “December 04, 2024 – Book Excerpt 02”
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December 11, 2023 – A
I had a sailing friend oncewho told me,”I became a sailorwhen I realized the sea was out to get me.” It applies across the board,around the tablethroughout the universe.Life is out to get us.Are we prepared?Republicans are not prepared.Fascists don’t have a clue.Their faith is in AR-15’sand killing their enemies,at least making them sufferand stayContinue reading “December 11, 2023 – A”
November 22, 2020
03 What are the things keeping us from being the person we are capable of being, doing the things we are capable of getting done? Really–what is holding us back? Standing in our way? If it weren’t for what, we would be doing what? Sit quietly with those things in your lap. Meditate on thoseContinue reading “November 22, 2020”
October 22, 2020
03 The most important thing is to be right about what’s important, and do it when it needs to be done, the way it needs to be done, for as long as it needs to be done in each situation as it arises, with sincerity and spontaneity, without contrivance, judgment or opinion, situation-by-situation, day-by-day forContinue reading “October 22, 2020”
October 18, 2020
04 Shamanism, you could look this up, is the world’s oldest religion starting up between 10,000 and 5,000 BCE. Hinduism and Taoism come in next from about 5,000 to 2,500 BCE. From at least 2,500 BCE Taoism is documented as saying “It all comes down to doing the right thing in the right way” (orContinue reading “October 18, 2020”
October 02, 2020
01 We hide ourselves and hide from ourselves. We speak in code about ourselves and to ourselves. Dismissing. Disregarding. Discounting. Denying. Ignoring. What is important in favor of what is trivial and essentially non-essential. We only have to look a our life to know it is so. Our life conceals and reveals us. Our choicesContinue reading “October 02, 2020”
September 23, 2020
02 If we are going to take anything on faith, let it be the actuality of the Unknown Knower within! Take the Psyche we are unconscious of on faith! And work to develop a relationship with her– a relationship of mutual respect, dependence, and collaboration– throughout the remainder of the time left for living! ConsiderContinue reading “September 23, 2020”
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