October 22, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development
When lying becomes the way When lying becomes the way, distrust becomes the faith. Nyadol Nyuon This is a precessional effect. Those who seek short-term glory from lies as the currency of power pay the price for distrust as the ground. It makes it worse for everyone....
October 21, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development
Stunned by truth I am paraphrasing a quote from Krishnamurti about being sane in an insane world. I wonder if my sense of sanity in a world hell-bent on self-destruction is indeed healthy. I wonder how I can go about my days without falling into the pit of despair at...
October 19, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development
Hello I see your pain We celebrate happiness as the holy grail, and in so doing, we make the emotional scale of human life wrong. Can we hold happiness and grief simultaneously? It is impossible to sit with someone living in the grip of an existential crisis or deep...
October 13, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Sustainability
Walls “The worst walls are never the ones you find in your way. The worst walls are the ones you put there.” Ursula K. Le Guin I think about the walls I have built in my life. Walls to protect that also keep those with no intent to harm out. Walls that...
October 8, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development
If you live in a glass house do not throw stones I remember this proverb from my childhood. I was taught quite a few like this. For example. Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me. Chaucer wrote the glass house proverb in 1385 Troilus and...
October 5, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development
We can be the light If everything around you seems dark, look again, you may be the light. Rumi What an invitation. To realise that we can be the light. This is always our choice. It can be hard, when the darkness is heavy upon us, to find the light inside. But...
