It comes down to our relationship with Psyche and with Intuition, and they may be the same thing. How can we deepen, enhance, expand, enlarge our relationship with, awareness of, Psyche and Intuition? That is the only thing that matters in the time left for living. Reflecting in emptiness, stillness and silence will help. TakingContinue reading “March 03, 2026”
Tag Archives: spirituality
February 27, 2026
I am a strong believer in trance states. Self-induced trance-states. Looking out the window. Drifting off into wool-gathering or taking a walk-a-bout to nowhere in particular. Not going anywhere and not being here, now at the same time. Aware only of what occurs to me/you, to what appears out of the mists, to catch ourContinue reading “February 27, 2026”
February 26-B, 2026
We know things we don’t know how we know. If we sit quietly without thinking but being aware of the things that come to mind “out of nowhere” and following the things that have an attraction about them, we will come into realization “like a bolt from the blue.” And we will not have thoughtContinue reading “February 26-B, 2026”
January 24, 2026
There is what we do to live, and there is what we live to do. Occasionally these may be the same thing. There are artists who support themselves with their art, and musicians who make a living with their music. Most of us do what we love by paying the bills doing what we don’tContinue reading “January 24, 2026”
January 18, 2026
The Way of the Tao is the way of water seeking its own level, which has nothing to do with what water wants. Water doesn’t want anything. Water just does what its circumstances call for. This is the First Lesson of the Tao: What does wanting know? What is being asked of us? Here, now?Continue reading “January 18, 2026”
January 14, 2025
I’m Jim Dollar and I’m here to help people find their life and live it in a “Who am I and what am I about?” kind of way. I spent 40.5 years as a minister in the Presbyterian Church U.S.A., serving congregations in Louisiana, Mississippi and North Carolina, and picking up pointers along the way.Continue reading “January 14, 2025”
December 27, 2027
Having done it is it. No one living–no living thing–has done it without having toughed it out somewhere, if not all the way, along the way, and they get style points for having toughed it out with style and with grace and with Pizzazz along the way. Style points are icing on the cake. TheyContinue reading “December 27, 2027”
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”
December 09, 2025
We tend to go where the job takes us and income is the directing factor in our life most often. Jesus and the Buddha cared nothing about money. The Buddha walked away from certain King-ship and Jesus was of the opinion that “The love of money is the root of all evil,” and “It isContinue reading “December 09, 2025”
November 22, 2025
Carl Jung would tell us that our role in life is not to be the Buddha, and it is not to be the Christ, but that it is to be simply who we are. Jung’s complete focus was what he called “Individuation,” being who we are to be. He talked about “”The Primary Mask,” whichContinue reading “November 22, 2025”
November 10, 2025
This is the remnant of an early rice plantation that could not compete with new varieties of rice and different ways to grow it, and the Civil War. What is civil about war? Is that not ridiculous? Absurd? Shameful? Disgusting? Are we not disgusting as human beings across time, around the world, throughout the Cosmos?Continue reading “November 10, 2025”
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