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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…
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We all need to let go sometimes, take risks together, opt for a change of scenery, or pace, or work – and to trust that…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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My birthday is 17 December – another successful trip around the sun aboard spaceship Earth. Birthdays are a paradox: both trivial and significant, arbitrary and…
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We all live inside bubbles – both literally and figuratively. Without the existence of membranes, or permeable boundaries, living organisms cannot exist. Creating our own…
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DON’T PANIC! These are the words on the cover of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (in Douglas Adam’s sci-fi book of the same name).…
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One of my favourite books is Illusions by Richard Bach, which is about a messiah who decides to quit. It reminds me that change is…
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We live in an age of obfuscation – truth is turgid, morals are malleable, and compromise is commonplace. That’s why clarity has become a rare…
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Sometimes it’s hard to stay positive – about our work, our city, our country, or even our future. The clouds accumulate in our skies and…
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Everything we do has consequences – but very few impacts are all bad, even if they seem that way at first. COVID-19 is having devastating…
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Dignity is the saving grace of humanity. Which leaders do you admire for their dignity? What is it about their attitude, or their behaviour, that…
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Dignity draws on what is good in human beings – our generosity, our compassion, our selflessness – not because it wishes to deny what is…
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Dignity is the ability to recognise prejudice for the false god that it is – and choose instead to affirm each person’s inherent value as…
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Treating others with dignity is impossible unless we have discovered our own sense of self-worth. Do we believe in our own fundamental value as human…
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Are you feeling discombobulated? It’s a strange word. But then these are strange times. The word means confused or disconcerted, which surely captures the prevailing…
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Doubt is the shield we carry through the battlefields of life. What is the place of doubt in your life? Do you question your abilities…
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We all have doubts, because they are the by-products of living and learning. Doubt is the path to awareness, while certainty is the road to…
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When doubt turns to despair, it becomes our prison, rather than our sky. When doubt overwhelms us, it keeps us in shackles, rather than giving…
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Doubt is not an absence of hope. And faith is not an absence of doubt. In the same way as bravery is not an absence…
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As much as we like to believe we are rational thinkers, as humans we are most fundamentally emotional beings. That’s why a lot of economic…
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How do you feel right now? Has today been a good day or a bad day? What about yesterday? Did you experience a lot of…
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An epiphany is seeing the same world again, but differently this time. What was your last epiphany? It could have been a life changing Damascus…
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When we have an epiphany, we start to entertain the possibility, perhaps for the first time, that our way is not the only way, that…
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As humans, we are prone to a kind of mass hypnosis. We are creatures of habit, vulnerable to suggestion. We believe because others believe, accept…
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Progress is never straightforward, and the learning curve is never smooth. Evolution occurs in great leaps, step changes. These discontinuities are the way we break…
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In times of doubt and destruction, of strain and struggle, it is important to have faith. But let us not see faith as blind believing.…
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