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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…
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Letting go – taking risks – is not always easy, or without those knocks and bruises. But it is almost invariably more interesting and rewarding.…
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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…
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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…
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‘Can you launch rockets from here? Boy, I’ve done it for years’. Those are words from a song by Tori Amos called Snow Cherries from…
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For my birthday, I received the gift of a globe. It’s one of those beautifully illustrated old globes that represent a time where the world…
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Flight is the journey beyond our limitations. For centuries, we dreamed of flying, marvelling at the freedom of birds and longing to touch the clouds.…
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Flight is an act of faith. When we lift off from the ground, we put our trust in forces we scarcely comprehend. We know that…
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Every time we overcome barriers and transcend thresholds, we are flying. Every time we dare to dream and believe in the impossible, we are flying.…
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Flying is a skill we can learn to master, but first we need sky – space in our lives, the boundless horizons of our wishes…
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When chaos enters our lives, it is good to remember that there is a deep underlying harmony in the universe. Einstein was profoundly inspired by…
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Have you ever watched the waves lapping on a beach? It feels like the Earth is breathing. Inhale, exhale. Inhale, exhale. And then there is…
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Home is wherever we feel we most belong. Where is home for you? What place do you feel most drawn to? Is there somewhere that…
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Home is where we feel centred, grounded, like the bush trail sign for home – a circle with a dot in the middle. Home is…
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The urge to find our home and return there is as powerful as the vortex of a hurricane. But it is not an ominous force.…
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What distinguishes a home from a house is people. Relationships are the essential ingredient in the recipe for a good home. Home is where the…
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Where is home? This used to be a simple question when we all grew up, lived and died in the same place as we were…
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Where do you feel most at home? We think of home as a place – and often it is – but when we reflect more…
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We make many journeys in our life – and all of them give us clues to the journey of life itself. We learn about beginnings…
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The antidote to boredom is mystery. We all need to spice up our lives with a little intrigue, to disrupt our routines with the unexpected…
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Where are your oases – and do you visit them often enough? We all have special places that reinvigorate our bodies, stimulate our minds and…
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The Overview Effect is the name for the profound shift in consciousness that happens when astronauts see the Earth from space. Coined in 1987 in…
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There is a remarkable open letter to the Presidents of the nine Amazonian countries, written by Nemonte Nenquimo, a leader of the Waorani people who…
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The building blocks of life, the universe, and everything, are the spaces in between. Where are the spaces in your life, in your work, in…
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The lack of space in our life reflects our appetite for having rather than experiencing, for doing rather than being. Activity is motion, motion causes…
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We should pay attention to the space in our lives, we should seek it out, enlarge it, immerse ourselves in it. Instead, all too often…
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Space is the place where we are stretched – strung out like an elastic, estranged from familiar things, separated from loved ones. There is beauty…
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Can we find the profound in the mundane? I had the opportunity to visit the Golden Buddha temple in Bangkok, smack-bang in the middle of…
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In our hurried, harried lives where time is money, pause for a moment to contemplate the inspiring mission of the Long Now Foundation: to build…
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Do you have a totem animal? For thousands of years, indigenous tribes have held certain creatures to be sacred, worthy of reverence and protection. We…
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