Finding The Way

By Jim Dollar, 05/22/2026

Who says so? Who says, “This is the Way! Not that way!”? What makes us think they know what they are talking about? Knowing who knows the way is as difficult as knowing the way! If we trust ourselves to know who knows the way, we may as well trust ourselves to know the way. No?

With this in mind, here is my way to the way. Drop into the silence on a regular basis, long enough and often enough to be comfortable there. If you go to sleep, no problem. Just keep coming back to the silence. Pay attention to what meets you there. See what is different and what is the same each time. Don’t worry about whether you are “doing it right.” Do not worry about whether it is “working or not.” Just show up in a regular way and spend twenty or minutes or so in the silence. You say what “regular” is but daily is not too much. We cannot be quiet too often! The silence is where things happen. All of important things happen in the silence. Noise is where people tell us things and insist that we believe them. Here is the first rule for this business about finding the Way: No one can tell us how we are to do it.

It is like this: No one can tell you who you are, or are to be. And no one can tell you what is yours to do. Only know who we are and what is ours to do. And it is our place to know that. To know it in such a way that no one can convince us otherwise and nothing can knock us off it. We know all manner of things that no one can tell us. This is Tao, Psyche and Intuition at work within us to establish us in the truth of certain things about us. We. Just. Know. What’s What. About a lot of things. Our place is to know what we know and KNOW that we know it!

How do we do that? We spend a lot of time in the silence, listening, looking, seeing, hearing, feeling, sensing, learning to trust ourselves to know the things that only we can know. No one ever woke up apart from the silence. No one ever woke up living a noisy life.

Our favorite kind of noise is wanting, desiring, having to have. Seeking to have/serve our way. We are certain we know what we want and we want it NOW! In THIS WAY, not that one. We have no idea of whether we are right about it or not, or whether we have any business whatsoever wanting it or not. We don’t have any way of evaluating what we want in terms of it being good for us or bad for us or having no place in our life. We just know we want it. What does wanting know?

These issues and others like them come up in the silence. The quieter we are and the more often we are quiet, the more there is about us that passes in review. Pay attention to the things that keep coming up. Tao, Psyche and Inutition are talking to us through the recurring patterns. We have to learn how to listen.

And nighttime dreams come into play here as well. And the fantasies we keep having over and over. Mirrors everywhere. All of our nighttime dreams are saying, “This is how it is with you right now. This is how things are. What are you going to do about it?” We have to dig in there, get to know what’s what there. And do what needs to be done about it. This is the work that is necessary in becoming aware of who we are and what is ours to do. And it has nothing to do with believing anything. It has solely to do with knowing what’s what and what needs to be done about it, when, where and how.

Here is another practice for you to take up. Sit down with a notebook and a pen/pencil, or a computer, and start writing. Just start writing. See what words need to be written and write them. Allow the words to tell you what to write. Give Tao, Psyche, Intuition an opportunity to talk to you in this way. Just start writing and see what you have written. You are learning to know what you know, and to know what you need to know.

Start writing by asking questions. Ask all of the questions that beg to be asked and write down all of the things that cry out to be said. Without thinking! Just write! Get out of the way and let the words come! Letters to yourself from Tao, Psyche, Intuition! Waking you up to what’s what and what is called for and what needs to be done about it here, now.