The musings of an Aussie viewing the World waist high .... from a wheelchair
My recent readings having included re-reading Socrates’ Apology (as reported we think by Plato). A passage has struck me: — apologies for the gendered language “You are mistaken, my friend, if you think that a man who is worth anything ought to spend his time weighing up the prospects of life and death. He [...]
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Manners are the rent you pay for your place on the Earth –Matt Preston from MasterChef Australia on Compass Possibly Related Posts: The email I wrote for international day last year Moments with Socrates — making choices Another Monday Micro: New iPhone, iPad app for tracking sins if …. WWGD — Heated table meetings
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If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too: If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or, being lied about, don’t deal in lies, Or being [...]
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Quoted in Seeking the Sacred: Transforming Our View of Ourselves and One Another from Hazrat Inayat Khan on theEffect of Prayer He is as large as he thinks himself, as great as he thinks himself, as small as he thinks himself. If he thinks he is incapable, he remains incapable; if he thinks himself foolish, [...]
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From Stephanie Dowrick’s new book “Seeking the Sacred: transforming our view of ourselves and one another”: The qualities needed to meet our most urgent social and environmental crises are the same as those we need in their communities and homes. They are the same as those we need to heal our personal suffering and lessen [...]
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My book review of David Allen’s Ready for Anything: 52 Productivity Principles for Work and Life here got me thinking about the book in more detail. The hardest thing about the book was also its greatest asset. The fact it was an audiobook meant that it was right there with me which not only kept [...]
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“I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world”. On a shop window. Couldn’t agree more. Possibly Related Posts: Just writing Vale Common Sense Moments with Socrates — making choices The view from 40 years on quote on Manners
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If I’m honest. I’ve always fancied myself as a one time writer. I have visions of filling notebooks, of sitting in a corner somewhere expressing myself in hard-fought-for phrases that somehow become morphed into sage or entertaining prose that would somehow, one day either pay the bills, or earn respect. My “vision” is as varied [...]
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This is so nice…. Tech Support: Yes, how can I help you? Customer: Well, after much consideration, I’ve decided to install Love. Can you guide me though the process? Tech Support: Yes. I can help you. Are you ready to proceed? Customer: Well, I’m not very technical, but I think I’m ready. What do I [...]
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