Reflections on meaning and truth, the sacred, life and death, wisdom for living, and love, drawn from Wayne’s diaries and letters.
15 diaries · Philosophy Diaries
Meaning, Purpose & Truth · 2022
Finding a purpose for your work is important (Handy calls it your “golden seed”; something you can nurture and grow that is aligned to your…
Meaning, Purpose & Truth · 2020
Superficially, when we wish someone a happy birthday, it would seem that we are wishing them to be happy on that particular day, which is…
Meaning, Purpose & Truth · 2018
I am already convinced by the scientific evidence of extended consciousness, including abilities like telepathy, precognition and remote viewing, which has been capably synthesised by…
Meaning, Purpose & Truth · 2017
When I started university, fresh out of school, 17 and living away from home for the first time, I was in the midst of seismic…
Meaning, Purpose & Truth · 2016
I remember having that tug-of-war with myself; in fact, it still continues. On the one side, I am pulled by unseen forces that search for…
Meaning, Purpose & Truth · 2015
It was Jung who came up with ideas like the collective unconscious (a kind of invisible connected consciousness, a bit like the digital cloud), archetypes…
Meaning, Purpose & Truth · 2015
There is not only natural beauty here in Kosovo. There are also all the shadows and ghosts of the past; the ruined homes and memorials…
Meaning, Purpose & Truth · 2015
The other thing I’ve been thinking a lot about this week is the meaning of ‘home’. Where is home? This used to be a simple…
Meaning, Purpose & Truth · 2015
This weekend has been a chance for deep, existential reflection. It began when I bought and started to read The Secret by Rhonda Byrne. The…
Meaning, Purpose & Truth · 2015
Many a truth spoken in fiction. I think the reason so many people resonated with the Harry Potter story is because J.K. Rowling managed to…
Meaning, Purpose & Truth · 2015
Recently I have had a few moments of serious existential crisis – a feeling of futility and meaninglessness; that nothing I (or anyone) might achieve…
Meaning, Purpose & Truth · 2010
Truth is a vision of the whole in all its complexity, not a pedantic description of the parts in all their simplicity. Is a lie…
Meaning, Purpose & Truth · 2007
What we call reality is simply what we are focused on at any given point in time and place. We place our picture of reality…
Meaning, Purpose & Truth · 2005
A book I read recently talks about how the speed of our natural (physical) evolution has not kept pace with socio-economic and ecological changes. The…
Meaning, Purpose & Truth · 1989
There comes a time upon your journey through life when you realise that the journey is indeed yours and nobody else’s; that no one else…