Archive - Right Now, Just As It Is

The Holy and the Broken

Unconditional love, radiant stillness, the G-word, a weather report, the holy and the broken Hallelujah

Sep 3 • Joan Tollifson

August 2026

Being True to Something that Calls to You

Faith, direct realization, and the paradoxical discipline of effortless effort

Aug 26 • Joan Tollifson

There is only THIS

THIS is everything and everything is THIS

Aug 19 • Joan Tollifson

Radiant Light in Dark Times

plus the unavoidable forces of creation and destruction, and a book that has generated many questions

Aug 12 • Joan Tollifson

Forgetting Everything

The freedom of an empty mind

Aug 5 • Joan Tollifson

July 2026

Nothing Is Lacking Here and Now

plus two things about Substack and AI that I'd like my readers to know

Jul 30 • Joan Tollifson

Finding God in the toilet paper and Buddha in the shit stick

Discovering the sacred in the most ordinary and unlikely places

Jul 23 • Joan Tollifson

No big breakthrough?

Quiet, moment-to-moment liberation

Jul 18 • Joan Tollifson

A Really Great July 4th Talk

from a really wonderful Zen teacher

Jul 15 • Joan Tollifson

The Waking Dream

the ungraspable mystery here and now

Jul 12 • Joan Tollifson

Open Vast Undivided Presence

Simplicity Itself

Jul 7 • Joan Tollifson

June 2026

Life As It Is, Right Now

A Mix of Things for Your Consideration

Jun 27 • Joan Tollifson

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