Tag: contemplation
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It’s a Mad Mad World~
Do you ever wake up, look around you, watch the news, survey the world and realise we are living what can be likened to an apocalyptic ‘Mad Max’ situation? We seem to see this, live through it and carry on as if nothing strange is really happening. This baffles me about the nature of humanity.…
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Morning Coffee Talk~43/365
Good Morning, Today my thoughts wander around the subject of intactness. What does it mean to be intact? How vulnerable do we allow ourselves to be with the onset of change? How does one become intact? Is it a permanent state or something we need to keep working towards in our personal development? All these…
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Morning Coffee Talk~7/365
Good morning, it’s a little after 6 am. I love the early morning, the smell of the first cup of coffee, the calm that envelopes the world around me, the promise of the first light to come reminding me that I live on a spinning sphere, a mind boggling fact on its own. My thoughts…
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Morning Coffee Talk~ 5/365
Morning Coffee talk~ 5/365 ‘The Future’: It keeps us up at night and occupies our thoughts at times, doesn’t it? We have this illusion that we can control the outcome of the next moment with our actions, and yes we can to some extent, but so many times life throws you a curve ball and…
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You Stand in Your Own Patch of Diamonds~
Sometimes when all seems to be overwhelming, the speed of life, the long ‘to do’ lists, the strong feeling of not being able to catch up or not having enough time to do what we want to do, it is good to take a moment. By taking a moment, I mean really take it, stop!…
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The future is calling~
Never before have I felt so unsure about what the future holds as I do today. Every morning, a new story in the news stranger than the next, wold leadership try to force the strangest and lowest of standards as the new norm and the first signs of tremors as the future threatens to eradicate…
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Alone Together~
When I examine my days carefully, looking for moments of peace, of clarity, of calm and reflective processes, I realize that almost always, these are moments of being alone. I remember in my early twenties when I went to India for the first time and tried out a month long silence, the most surprising result…
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The power of choice~
The next step we take, the next word we say, the next thought we harbor, the next bite we eat, these are the small choices we make but how small are they really? It is all connected, every road we take leads to the highway of our destiny, or not. In this maze we call…
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The Search for Truth~
To live and not to wonder about the cause of life itself is like not having lived at all… Why are we here? Where did we come from? Where do we go from here? Day 34 of 365 Image is of an old friend in the forest
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Worlds colliding~
Some days it feels as though it is just impossible to catch up with all what we task ourselves to do. It seems as though time is standing there as a slave driver and a grim reaper screaming: “it’s later than you think”. On days like that I take a deep breath and remember that…