Author Archives: jimwdollar

January 28, 2016 – March 25, 2016 01/28/2016 — How bored can you be?The Boredom Test is the tipping pointof the spiritual journeyBoredom is another manifestationof the Cyclops standing in the path.If we run at the first sight of boredom,We don’t have a prayer. A high boredom thresholdis a prerequisite for the journey.Boredom is anContinue reading “One Minute Monologues 031”

10/27/2015 — 12/16/2015 10/27/2015 — Receive it all with compassionate awareness—including our automatic reaction to it all(We hate it, we are terrified by it, we are panic stricken,we are overjoyed, enraptured, etc.). Receive our reaction to it along with it.Receive IT ALLWith compassionate awareness:”This too, this too…” That’s it. Just hold it all in compassionateContinue reading “One Minute Monologues 029”

08/20/2015 — 10/26/2015 08/20/2015 — Tidal Pool 01 — Sunrise, Huntington Beach State Park, Murrell’s Inlet, SC, August 20, 2015 Can you be mindfully aware of each situation as it arises, Without judgment, will or opinion– Seeing what is happening, And what needs to be done in response, And offering what you have to giveContinue reading “One Minute Monologues 028”

06/10/2015 — 08/19/2015 06/10/2015 —  Lake Chicot Panorama 03 — Lake Chicot State Park, Ville Platte, Louisiana, March 22, 2015 Each stage of life comes replete with responses To the situations that arise during that stage, That are appropriate to the situation, And appropriate to our stage in life. It is our place to playContinue reading “One Minute Monologues 027”

04/24/2015 — 06/10/2015 04/24/2015 — Union Pacific 6831 01 — Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana, March 23, 2015 Everybody wants to “make a difference” And “be happy.” Make a difference doing what? Be happy doing what? What do you want TO DO with your life? What is yours TO DO with your life Whether you want toContinue reading “One Minute Monologues 026”

03/12/2015 — 04/22/2015 03/12/2015 — Scott Creek Sunset 03 — Edisto Beach State Park, Edisto Island, SC, January 29, 2015 You find your life and live it by finding and doing what has life for you. If it brings you to life, DO IT! If it once brought you to life, but you put itContinue reading “One Minute Monologues 025”

01/25/2015 — 03/11/2015 01/25/2015 — Mill Pond Trail 04 — Anne Springs Close Greenway, Fort Mill, SC, November 13, 2014 We cannot live any old way and have a life worth living. We have to consciously, consistently, live toward the best we can imagine, Expecting the best of ourselves, Intentional and deliberate about showing others,Continue reading “One Minute Monologues 024”

12/09/2014 — 01/25/2015 12/09/2014 — At the Dock Panorama 01 — Shrimp Boats on Battery Creek, Port Royal, SC, December 5, 2014 All religion is a system of denial. Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity and all the others that ever have been, are, or will be, are our attempts to adjust ourselves to the status quoContinue reading “One Minute Monologues 023”

November 01, 2014 – December 9, 2014 11/01/2014 — We have to believe in the life we are living, And live it with intensity and with passion. Burn-out is the inevitable result of doing what you don’t believe in— Of living without your heart in your life. We can get by with that as longContinue reading “One Minute Monologues 022”

09/19/2014 – 11/01/2014 09/19/2014 — Life begins here, now. Just as the path begins under our feet. It doesn’t wait until some far off time, Or some far away place. The path is the path to life We will never be more alive than we are here, now. We will be more aware of theContinue reading “One Minute Monologues 021”