I recall a story, possibly apocryphal, about President Obama who had (has) the capacity to give his undivided attention to the person or situation at hand regardless of the thousands of spinning plates moving around him. In the story he was on the campaign trail and literally moving at pace, yet managed to stop and...
We humans are generally brimful of intentions. Whether more personally focused or embracing a bigger, world-changing vista, we have an abundance. Yet my personal experience suggests they’re too often stored up for tomorrow. Tomorrow never really comes though. We move through our lives moment to moment. While we’re dreaming of that brighter future, of that...
You know you want to…love more that is. Not in the sentimental way but through a profound level of inclusiveness that encompasses all. All people, all beings, all life. Can we even imagine what that feels like? To have such a well of love in one’s heart that truly every person and every living being...
We likely all have a favourite scent. That of a beautiful rose. New mown grass. Freshly baked bread. The sea. Fragrance can inspire, connect us to time, place, experience, a person. It lingers in memory long after the initial impact and transports us back whenever we smell it. Then there’s the scent we choose to...
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, while imagination embraces the entire world.” – Albert Einstein We place enormous value on concrete knowledge, treating it as the primary measure of intelligence. But knowledge has a fundamental limitation: it is static. It can only take us so far. Knowing that the UK has...
Too often we spend time wishing our past was different. Regrets about the things we did or didn’t do. Or we project forward, to a time we haven’t reached. ‘It will be better when/then…’ Unfolding world events engage our thoughts and feelings too, perhaps reinforcing worries about things we feel we can’t affect or change....
A few hours before sitting down to write this blog, I felt moved to draw an angel card — one of those simple, one-word cards that can reflect what’s stirring beneath the surface of our awareness or point to the kind of support available to us. In a beautiful stroke of synchronicity, the card I...
We don’t have to search hard for incredible acts of heroism. Those who put themselves in harm’s way for others. Protesters against brutal regimes. Aid workers in conflict zones. Green innovators battling climate change against pretty large odds. National leaders stepping up and in. There are many examples – the grand and the very individual....
Of course I hear you say! Aren’t we all under pressure – many feeling they are all but living in a pressure cooker – whether it’s in the workplace, home lives or nationally/globally. And yet…can you feel it? That sense of something coming – something new that is emerging. A different type of pressure perhaps?...
Something I read the other day suggested that as we age our strength/physical capability decreases while our wisdom goes up. I, like probably all of us, can attest to the former even if my mind keeps on insisting I’m 25. As for the latter how true is the growth in our wisdom? Yes, we acquire...