Eudaimonia or The Good Life
Part of the extraordinary mechanics of the human mind is its ability to transcend its current situation and either endure or persist anyway. You may think this refers to people finding themselves in a war torn region of Africa. You may think it refers to Jews in the Holocaust but it does not. It refers [...]
Illumination
Do you find that there are particular themes recurrent within your life? Have you noticed how at times you tune yourself into particular issues, whatever they may be, and find books, articles, references et al concerning that issue? You may strike up conversations with people and discover it’s something they are an expert in or [...]
Stay close
When you can see the Universe in a handful of dust, when you can see the simplest cause in the most apparently complicated process, when you can transcend the storm and locate the stillness that is in its eye you are close. There is a special place in all of us, a portal into a [...]
Looking for clues
Sometimes you can sit and wait for that which has your name on it. Yes there are things for you and they do not all have to be chased. Sometimes they seek you out. Like a feather on the breeze or the ruby in the dust, sometimes they find you. Often I have wondered at [...]
Imagination
Imagination rules the world. There is no middle ground in this. There are those with the capacity to imagine a future and conjure or manifest it in their now and then there are the others. Which are you? Consider such thinkers, no let’s call them imagineers, as Albert Einstein or Napoleon Bonaparte who placed great [...]
How Does Your Garden Grow?
How does your garden grow? How you garden is how you are in your life. What you cultivate is an external reflection of your inner process. One of the great difficulties is finding a source of objective reflection. If you garden then it is there for you. There is something calming and settling about being [...]
Why personally develop?
This is one of those questions that’s like a hardy annual. It keeps coming back. For someone who perhaps isn’t clear about these things, here are some pointers. At the physical level we see clearly the progression from a newborn to a mature adult. Procreation represents a logical next step followed by gradual decline having [...]
About (more formal)
So you know a little more about the source from which these words are flowing here are some facts about me… I hold a BA(Hons) in Philosophy from Durham University And another in History from the University of Sunderland And an MA in English from Northumbria I lectured for several years at East Birmingham Business [...]
Thinking Happiness
It doesn’t matter what you think is important. It doesn’t matter what you prioritise. What is important is HOW you do those things. Some people worry about the rainforest and some don’t give a damn, what is truly lacking by majority is elegance in thinking. You see whatever floats your boat is fine, it’s subjective [...]
Crunch
It was Oscar Wilde who said that a cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. Here in the West there is anxiety, I’m reminded of ‘Panic’ by the Smiths, the idea that the icons of our great surge forward have been weighed in the balance and found [...]