Category Archives: One Minute Monologues

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”

08/04/2014 – 09/19/2014 08/04/2014 — We are born packed with potential And born into a family who, and a culture that, determines what about us can stay and what must go—and how we must fit into what awaits us whether that fits us or not. You see the problem. We are separated from ourselves atContinue reading “One Minute Monologues 020”

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”