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In life, it helps to know what we can control, what we should try to control, and what we can’t control. What we can control…
Life · Inner Life
We all need to let go sometimes, take risks together, opt for a change of scenery, or pace, or work – and to trust that…
Life · Inner Life
In life, you are being asked to choose between different doors, without really knowing what is behind each one. Finding a path that is interesting…
Life · Wonder & Travel
Letting go – taking risks – is not always easy, or without those knocks and bruises. But it is almost invariably more interesting and rewarding.…
Life · Wonder & Travel
As much as age is a concrete reality, it is also an ethereal illusion. We all have to make that journey through time, from starting…
Life · Inner Life
We can refuse to be neatly confined to our age-boxes. There is as much wisdom in youth as there is rebellion in old age; adults…
Life · Inner Life
We are conditioned on what is expected of us at any given age, told to grow up or to act our age. When we are…
Life · Inner Life
As much as age is a wrinkling of the skin and a greying of the hair, it is a stretching of the mind and a…
Life · Inner Life
In the face of adversity, creativity and solidarity flourish. Which may explain the revival of Amabie, a Japanese folklore healing spirit (yōkai). The story goes…
Life · Joy & Creativity
We should never underestimate the pleasure of anticipation. Whether it’s an upcoming holiday, reuniting with loved ones, a new book to read, the next instalment…
Life · Joy & Creativity
Art is the mirror in which we see our truest self reflected. Which artistic styles do best you relate to? Do you have a favourite…
Life · Joy & Creativity
All art has the power to transform. When we are moved by art, something shifts, we are changed forever. Art is a catalyst. It sparks…
Life · Joy & Creativity
Art is the view we get looking through a keyhole. We are voyeurs of another time and place, eavesdropping on other people’s lives. But what…
Life · Joy & Creativity
We are all latent artists. Have you discovered your talent yet? What kind of art do you wish you could do, or do better? Perhaps…
Life · Joy & Creativity
A picture paints a thousand words. In times of crisis, art also reminds us that life is beautiful, that solidarity is powerful and that selfless…
Life · Joy & Creativity
Our attitude is the only thing over which we can have complete control. But how do we summon the will to respond to those who…
Life · Inner Life
Do you like beaches? I’m not one for frolicking in the surf and baking in the sun but give me a long walk along the…
Life · Wonder & Travel
I love graffiti art, which brings beauty to ugly spaces. Architecture and urban design should be beautiful. Yet large parts of our cities have succumbed…
Life · Joy & Creativity
Every new beginning is just a first step away. Do you have hopes, dreams and wishes for the future? Or even just something you have…
Life · Purpose & Wellbeing
Lao Tzu was right: the journey of a thousand miles does begin with the first step. But why is that first step often so difficult…
Life · Purpose & Wellbeing
The only thing more difficult than beginning is beginning again. And yet beginning again is the easiest way, indeed the only way, to succeed. The…
Life · Purpose & Wellbeing
Sometimes, we shy away from new beginnings because we are afraid of where they might take us. But unless we set our foot upon the…
Life · Purpose & Wellbeing
My birthday is 17 December – another successful trip around the sun aboard spaceship Earth. Birthdays are a paradox: both trivial and significant, arbitrary and…
Life · Inner Life
During a visit to the Ayutthaya ancient city and temple complex in Thailand, seated beneath a 5.2 metre, 1,200 year-old Buddha statue, I was blessed…
Life · Wonder & Travel
Follow you bliss. You might recognise this mantra from mythologist Joseph Campbell. But where will your bliss lead you? There’s a book called The Geography…
Life · Purpose & Wellbeing
Books are the ongoing conversation of the ages. Do you have a soft spot for books, a weakness for their charms? Do you think of…
Life · Joy & Creativity
Books have a way of grabbing our attention, revealing just enough to pique our interest. Can you remember the first book that made a real…
Life · Joy & Creativity
Every book is a philosopher’s stone, a rite of alchemy which changes us. Books are a meeting place – between author and reader, between expressed…
Life · Joy & Creativity
Books are the dialogue which never ends, the eternal human conversation. We can choose how much of the dialogue to listen to, how much of…
Life · Joy & Creativity
Which historical figure has influenced your life the most? It’s a tough and interesting question. For me, a real contender is a German blacksmith and…
Life · Joy & Creativity