Tag Archives: awareness

Travel and returning

Posted on 9 July 2012 by

I wrote this on my way home from Jamaica a week and a bit ago. I let it settle for a bit before posting it here, but a conversation on the weekend reminded me of it. Travel and returning I … Continue reading →

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Quotations on wonder

Posted on 5 May 2009 by

(Poached from the website of a marvelous-looking magician.) “To be matter of fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy – and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.” – Robert Heinlein “Anything looked … Continue reading →

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The argument against forgiveness

Posted on 22 April 2009 by

What does it mean to forgive? The way I see it, it doesn’t mean anything. In fact, I find the concept of forgiveness something extraneous, confusing and downright meaningless. The widely used notion of forgiveness comes from the Judeo-Christian tradition. … Continue reading →

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The third eye – or not

Posted on 14 April 2009 by

When I was a kid, I was preoccupied with all things supernatural. I devoured “non-fiction” accounts involving psychics, clairvoyants, people with what was then called ESP. I scared myself silly thinking about ghosts and poltergeists and what I would do … Continue reading →

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What you can measure

Posted on 24 March 2009 by

I can measure my son’s weight and his height. I can say things about length percentiles and head circumferences. What would it tell you, really? I cannot fill in on a chart the delicate pressure of his feet resting on … Continue reading →

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Satsang with baby boy

Posted on 13 February 2009 by

Ever since we got back to Cape Town, I’ve been meaning to take Kolya off to a Thursday night satsang with the nice Art of Living people in Muizenberg. But somehow, every Thursday has been full of other things to … Continue reading →

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Cloth nappies really aren’t that much effort

Posted on 10 February 2009 by

A few people have commented recently on how unusual/strange/excessively demanding it is that we use cloth nappies. I know I’m a bit evangelical on the hippie-baby stuff, but really, this is not rocket science nor hard labour. Here are the … Continue reading →

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Poem

Posted on 10 January 2009 by

The Guesthouse by Mowlana Jalaluddin Rumi This being human is a guest house Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all! Even if they … Continue reading →

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Jim Dreaver on Freedom

Posted on 23 December 2008 by

At the level that most people relate to the notion of freedom, it means the freedom to express ourselves however wish: to choose our work or career, our friends, our politics, our religion, to choose where we live. Yet there … Continue reading →

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The successful psychopath

Posted on 18 November 2008 by

For most of us, literature and cinema have hijacked the term “psychopath” to evoke an image of a crazed sadistic monster, Hannibal Lecter frying up his victim, or Patrick Bateman in a frenzy of chainsaws and blades. The real psychopath … Continue reading →

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