In all affairs, it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted. Bertrand Russell I made the decision today that I would think a new thought. Why? Because staying in the energy field of the same thoughts means stagnation. A new thought […]
NOTE: This is Part 2 of a 2-part series. Read Part 1 – Why are relationships so hard here. People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. I think that what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life
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Image from here You are beautiful So beautiful that the universe trembles with ecstasy as it gazes unwaveringly at you You are so beautiful my love That nothing can add to or take away from your beauty Neither stars nor comets can celebrate you enough And yet you fuss and fret Convinced that
If it’s hard it may be NORMAL, but that’s never NATURAL I like to make a distinction between what I consider *normal* and what I consider *natural*. To me *normal* is a human calibrated value or bandwidth within which it is expected and assumed most people fall. Some of the vast range of human
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You know, I could get worked up or at least more than mildly irritated when I hear people put off their happiness until one or other condition they’ve set is fulfilled. I could, but I don’t because I don’t believe in putting off my happiness. I don’t believe in waiting for certain conditions to be
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I was having afternoon tea (well actually it was coffee, a long espresso, to be exact) with 4 year-old Molly and her mother, Susan (not their ‘real’ names). Molly was colouring while talking to me in between my conversation with her mum. “So, you’re going to have a sleepover at Daddy’s, are you?” I ask
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Image from Here We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. Joseph Campbell Letting go. It’s something that we hear so frequently and because it’s two words
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Reaching a point where I was unbearably unhappy Realizing that my unhappiness was having an undesirable effect on others Realizing that I had a choice – that my life could be different Seeing other people having a much better time than I was Realizing that it was my thinking, my beliefs, my attitude, my judgments
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As a child, I knew when I had upset my mum or dad. In the case of my father, I would get beaten, cursed at in some of the most obscene language which, fortunately for me, I did not understand at the time, and/or made to kneel with my arms outstretched for what seemed like
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Namaste – the Greatness of God within me greets and honours the Greatness of God within you (Image from here) It is the day after Nelson Madiba Mandela’s memorial service at the Football National Stadium in Johannesburg. I watched it all on TV last night. I did not want to miss a moment.
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