Being open to,
aware of,
engaged with
what is called for
in each situation as it arises,
positions us 
to be free of opinions,
motives,
expectations,
desires,
will,
plans,
agendas
beyond the simple service
of what needs to happen here/now
in light of the circumstances
that form and shape the moment,
letting that carry us into the next moment,
and all the moments that follow.

It is also drama-free.

I cannot imagine why
it has not caught on by now.

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We live out our lives,
maintaining our relationships,
and rising to meet the occasion
as best we can,
doing what needs to be done,
when, where and how it needs to be done,
enjoying what is to be enjoyed,
grieving what must be grieved,
"sunrise, sunset,"
day by day,
and letting that be that.

Few can improve on this for a life plan.
Get up and meet the day
with as much kindness, 
grace
and generosity as we can muster.

Aligned with the flow
until circumstances call for
swimming against the flow,
and then do that.

We are designed to come up
with the right response 
to what is happening here/now.
We can trust ourselves to that,
living out of the center,
true to our original nature
and our innate virtues 
(the things we do best).

Nothing can happen 
that emptiness, stillness and silence
can't find a way of dealing with.

It is the way of being human
through all times and places
for as long as life shall last.

And then we transition to the light,
back where it all started,
and start up again.

To the journey!
Always and forever!
May it be so!

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How we do something, say something
is as important as what we do, say.

When and where are as important
as what and how.

Doing the right thing
in the right way
in the right place
at the right time
is the complete package.

And we do not do it by thinking about it.
We do not do it by rehearsing it.
By practicing it.
By arranging for it to happen.

The trick is that it "just happens."

It happens as a spontaneous response
to the moment as it arises,
unfolds, 
before us.

Integrity,
sincerity,
spontaneity,
expressing themselves
with what needs to happen
when, 
where
and how.

That is what it takes.

We have to live so aligned
with what needs to be done/said,
that it becomes automatic,
natural,
like breathing,
or sneezing.

When we live like that,
the entire world is a better place
instantly
all the time.

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We've been going at this long enough
that we should be better at it
by now.

I recommend that we start tomorrow at 6:00 AM
experiencing our experiences.
If my calculations are correct,
that will make a real difference
in the way we live our life.

More reflection on our experience
will result in a greater degree
of realization.
And that will change everything.

Experiencing our experience
means experiencing our reaction
to our experience
on emotional and physical levels.

I'm betting that our emotional response
calls forth our physical response,
and that as we insert our experiencing
our experience into the situation,
we will be curious about examining 
the exact cause, degree and direction
of our emotional reactivity 
and our physical response
by wondering where that comes from,
how we learned to react the way we react
and how we might react instead.

That will give us something else to think about,
and divert the quality and kind
of physical response,
which, in itself, will alter our response pattern,
and create new possibilities 
for living our life.

By 12:01 PM, 
we will have been experiencing our experience
for six hours and one minute,
and that should be enough of a difference
for the world to begin shifting on its axis,
and for gravity to start trying to figure out
what is going on.

Whenever gravity gets involved,
you better hold onto your chair,
because nobody knows where that will lead.
Could be quite the thing. 

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I think all governments,
and certainly the U.S.
(The fascists are ridiculously without restraint
and gleefully racist/sexist/obscene),
needs to do more to regulate,
oversee,
enforce
human rights throughout the land,
all lands.

Basic decency is not too much to ask/require.

But how we get there is beyond any plan of action
I can come up with.

The people who elect the fascists
are fascist themselves.

How do we make it uncool to be fascist
when it has become the coolest thing imaginable,
hooting and showboating
during the State of the Union address
becomes hooting and showboating
on main street
and in homerooms
in school districts nationwide.

Fascists egging on fascists,
upping the ante,
destroying the social bonds
that hold the country together
because they can.

I am ashamed of all of those
who feel no shame.

Who is going to stop the incivility?
Call it out?
Disappear it entirely?
And how are we going to instill respect
and honor for the common good?

We do it with each of us doing what we can,
when and where and how we are able,
Against all odds.
Not caring what our chances are.
And not stopping until things turn around,
and people treat people with compassion,
kindness
and generosity
from the heart
for the true good of all concerned.

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Our perspective is a superpower
capable of transforming the world!

Perspective is influenced/impacted
by the 10,000 things,
including where we have been,
what has happened to us,
what has failed to happen to us,
and how we responded to it--
which is a function of perspective!

So, perspective forms/shapes/creates
perspective!

The key with perspective
is to be aware of it
and what influences/impacts it.

Who would be happy that we see things 
as we do?
Who would be unhappy?
Who do we strive to please?
Displease?

Our degree of consciousness/awareness
governs our response to our circumstances
and the things our original nature
and innate virtues/traits 
seek to express/exhbit
in and through the response we make.

We communicate who we are--
and how awake we are--
through everything we do,
and the way we do it.

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