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06/21/2014 – 08/04/2014 06/21/2014 — Our life has a life of its own. We spend our life looking for our life, much like the Zen definition of Zen as a woman wearing her sunglasses looking for her sunglasses. It’s right THERE, but we don’t see it, looking, as we do, for a life we wouldContinue reading “One Minute Monologues 019”

05/15/2014 – 06/21/2014 05/15/2014 — Taking a leafy branch to the babies for lunch, The Alligator Farm Rookery, St. Augustine, FL, May 13, 2014 Joseph Campbell said Sanskrit is the great spiritual language of the world. Sanskrit has its own Holy Trinity, the three things are needed to wake up: Awareness, Being, Rapture—in no certainContinue reading “One Minute Monologues 018”

01/01/2014 — 02/21/2014 We aren’t being graded. We don’t earn—or lose—merit. No one is keeping score. We aren’t competing for some prize. We aren’t trying to get anywhere. There is only the opportunity to be alive. We either live our life or waste it. It’s never too late to live it. No matter how muchContinue reading “One Minute Monologues 017”

01/01/2014 — 02/21/2014 The line between the visible world and the invisible world is not distinct and sharply defined. One flows into and out of the other at the border. Physical particles become so small they disappear, but they do not cease to exist. I just made that up, but quantum physics may back itContinue reading “One Minute Monologues 016”

11/20/2013 — 01/01/2014 All the talk is about God. More specifically, “My God.” It’s “My God this,” and “My God that.” What God would have us do and not do (and what God is going to do if we don’t do it, or will do for us if we do it… Which says to meContinue reading “One Minute Monologues 015”

10/31/2013 — 11/20/2013 Don’t force anything. Be open to everything. Or, as Lao Tzu said, “Do your work and get out of the way. Let nature take its course.” Your work is assisting what is trying to happen, what needs to happen, without making anything happen. Or, as Lao Tzu said, “Do your work andContinue reading “One Minute Monologues 014”

August 01, 2013 – November 20, 2013 “How To Have What You Want” is the theme of every book in the self-help section of every bookstore in the land. You will be out of luck if what you are looking for is a book on “How To Want What You Ought To Want,” or “HowContinue reading “One Minute Monologues 013”

08/01/2013 — 09/30/2013 We can rise to any occasion and shoot ourselves in the foot at any moment. When we do what tells the tale that we came to tell. Eventually we all run out of luck. But, we get to do our thing as long as life lasts. Lucky or unlucky, there is alwaysContinue reading “One Minute Monologues 012”

June 15, 2013 – August 01, 2013 Our life is like a dream which wakes us up to the life we are called to live—if we look at it with eyes that see. We read our life—interpret our life, what is happening in our life, what we are doing about it—as though it were aContinue reading “One Minute Monologues 011”

05/13/2013– 06/16/2013 No Theology! It ought to be a bumper sticker. No Doctrine! This is called the doctrine of no doctrine. Bad religion looks for something beyond the experience of life to justify the experience of life—and to look forward to once “this vale of tears” is left behind through death. The experience of lifeContinue reading “One Minute Monologues 010”