“The observer cannot be separated from the observed.” Where does experience stop and projection start? We see everything from the standpoint of “the way we see things.” How we see things makes things as they are. And we live in relationship with things and people as though they are the way we see them. AllContinue reading “November 07, 2025”
Tag Archives: spirituality
October 28, 2025
We are paying the price for electing Donald Trump, and will be paying it for the rest of our life. This train wreck won’t fix itself, put itself back on the tracks and chug along to glory in our life time. We are on our own. It is up to us to put our lifeContinue reading “October 28, 2025”
October 23, 2025
We are back to where the old Taoists were with Lao Tzu and the Tao Te Ching in the neighborhood of 600 years BCE, with living to be in sync with, aligned with, in accord with the movement, the rhythm and flow, of life and being.The fundamental/foundational recognition/understanding is that there is a right wayContinue reading “October 23, 2025”
October 16, 2025 – B
The Garden of Eden did not exist. Adam and Eve are not real people. The story is about the danger of wanting the wrong things, of caring about things that do not matter. It is a great story. And terrible theology. All theology is terrible. Theology is a collection of opinions about hearsay. There isContinue reading “October 16, 2025 – B”
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”
September 21, 2025
Experience is required to know/understand/comprehend. It cannot be said, told, explained, defined… Psyche is leading us to knowing throughout our life. We are not old enough to get it until we are old. And then it takes talking to/with people who are consciously seeking to grasp Psyche’s attempts at communion. Waking up. Enlightenment–is Psyche breakingContinue reading “September 21, 2025”
September 20, 2025
We have to be available.What it means to be available is this:”Those who would be my disciple have to pick up their cross everyday and come with me.”Cross-bearing is making the routine sacrifice/practice of handing over what we want in the service of what needs to be done, when, where and how it needs toContinue reading “September 20, 2025”
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”
September 18, 2025
We are all that stands between us and the Void.That being the case, we might think we would be doing a better job laying a foundation with ourselves that will allow us to deal with what’s coming up, instead of looking the other way and hoping for the best. If the best were in play,Continue reading “September 18, 2025”
September 05, 2025
The relationship between the flow of life and emptiness, stillness, silence is “right there,” for all of us to experience any time.The place of silence (emptiness and stillness) in the life of the species from the beginning of consciousness until now is a topic I would like to have explored by those in position toContinue reading “September 05, 2025”
August 21, 2025
I’m thinking Psyche is something all life shares/has in common. All living things are one in this way. Consciousness is more or less aware of that connection. Emptiness/stillness/silence (one thing not three), or meditation/reflection, enhances/deepens/expands that connection, and we work together in the service of what is called for here, now, for the mutual goodContinue reading “August 21, 2025”
August 16, 2025
Each situation has its own direction and flow that has to be recognized and taken into account. Forcing action that is not conducive to the situation as a whole creates a disturbance in the flow that has impact and implications for the balance and harmony and wellbeing of the here, now and the not yetContinue reading “August 16, 2025”
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