In these turbulent times, as we witness much that we’ve taken for granted – from institutions to social mores – crumble and fall away we have a choice. To throw our hands up in powerlessness, deny our agency with a plaintive ‘what can I do as one individual?’ We can run away and hide. Or...
“Although actions may speak louder than words, it is our intentions that reveal our soul.” Hal Elrod This quote opens the book a little wider on that well known saying and, in an action-obsessed world, especially within the world of work, it feels like it’s time to add a little more soul to inform those...
If we let it, trust it, live through it, our heart knows, sees, hears all. It becomes our compass however turbulent the environment, carrying a wisdom on which we can rely. When we think of the heart, beyond its life-supporting function, love, kindness, empathy, compassion, courage, passion come to mind. All, of course, are qualities...
Unity is in the field…do you sense it? I hear the word everywhere at the moment. Of course, we may look far from unified as Humanity at this time and yet there is a sense of something moving. Almost an inner, perhaps unconscious, response to the need to come together to navigate these testing times....
With each day, each interaction, each situation we encounter, good or bad, we are accumulating knowledge, experience, and possibly even a deeper understanding of self and others if we choose to reflect on these events. With so many calls on our time and much taking our attention reflecting on events may be easily sidelined. We...
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...