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Just got into Sky Atlantic’s #Westworld it echoes the Ashtavakra Gita: “through my imperfection I create the world.… https://t.co/uQv8Y0bCWm
Posted in Tweets on Wednesday, October 26, 2016
Through my imperfection I create the world.
Have just got into Sky Atlantic’s “Westworld”. In the first episode Ford, the creator of a theme park teeming with androids, observes that the process of evolution creates all sentient life by using just one fundamental tool: mistakes. And of course he’s right....
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Posted in Blog on Wednesday, October 26, 2016
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Posted in Tweets on Monday, October 24, 2016
Too much therapy is focused on the negatives.
Too much therapy is focused on the negatives that have to be eradicated. The irony of this is that the more we focus on the negatives the more we reinforce their presence in our lives.
Posted in Blog on Monday, October 24, 2016
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This bears out what I have argued, actions have more powerful access to the deep part of the mind than thought alon… https://t.co/yPNnlBpgdM
Posted in Tweets on Saturday, October 22, 2016
The power of the unconscious mind.
Interesting to see an article from the Science Correspondent of The Times discussing the fact that placebos ease pain even when patients know they are fake. The article credits “the power of the unconscious mind” and suggests that it is the act of...
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Posted in Blog on Saturday, October 22, 2016
A place of avoidance.
What most people see as a spiritual place is often a place of avoidance. The true spiritual place is often, ironically, counter-intuitively, a place of problems. That’s when you are really challenged to apply what you have learnt.
Posted in Blog on Thursday, October 20, 2016
Tagged with avoidance, spiritual
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#JohnStones v #LionelMessi The point is not to admire Stones’ attitude but to emulate it. To live it.… https://t.co/XPhNopck0i
Posted in Tweets on Wednesday, October 19, 2016
Stones v Messi.
In the run up to Wednesday’s Champions League clash between Manchester City and Barcelona, John Stones, the City defender, said “it will be great to come face to face with the likes of Messi. It doesn’t scare me. For me, Messi is easily...
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Posted in Blog on Wednesday, October 19, 2016
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A favourite Rumi poem teaching the vital importance of allowing (where our instinct so often is to avoid):… https://t.co/joh2MP16zw
Posted in Tweets on Monday, October 17, 2016
Poem of the month – Oct ’16.
Just listened to “In Our Time” podcast on Rumi. Here is one of my favourite Rumi poems – which teaches the vital importance of allowing (where our instinct so often is to avoid): Rumi - The Guest House This being human is a...
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Posted in Blog on Monday, October 17, 2016
Tagged with Poem, Rumi, The Guest Hose
Why do you throw away £3m?
Why do you throw away £3m a year chasing after an additional £400k? That is the question I hear constantly since Sam Allardyce departed as the England football team manager after compromising his position during a Daily Telegraph undercover 'sting'. When you are...
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Posted in Blog on Thursday, October 13, 2016
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This well exemplifies that what we seek ‘out there’ is often that which can be found ‘right here’.… https://t.co/Pm42DmciJe
Posted in Tweets on Wednesday, October 12, 2016
History of Art in Three Colours.
I just watched the second installment of James Fox’s “History of Art in Three Colours” last night. In it Fox makes the point that blue, being the colour of the sky and therefore having long been the colour of the Heavens (think Giotto’s...
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Posted in Blog on Tuesday, October 11, 2016
Tagged with Attar, Giotto, James Fox, Scrovegni Chapel
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Attended Donna Lancaster’s presentation on her new project The Bridge– workshops designed to release #grief & #loss… https://t.co/iKe4vAsCzv
Posted in Tweets on Friday, October 7, 2016
Donna Lancaster – The Bridge.
Yesterday I attended Donna Lancaster’s presentation on her new project, The Bridge – a series of 5 day residential workshops designed to release grief and loss. While many people who had experienced the programme spoke very positively about its effects, the single most...
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Posted in Blog on Friday, October 7, 2016