July 2010
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Is there a definitive answer here?
Is there a definitive answer to the age old question “what is the meaning of life?” The only real answer to this connundrum is that life will always take on the meaning you give to it. We live in a responsive yet unpredetermined universe. Our choices and actions determine the consequences. To blame God or
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Paradoxically speaking
A paradox is a statement which contains some truth that contradicts itself. Life itself is a paradox – no sooner than we are born we begin to die! In each moment we draw breath and inhale life sustaining oxygen and then in the next moment we exhale life reducing carbon dioxide. Some examples of paradoxes:
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Self-less or Self-ish?
Who or what is a ‘self’? Our language is full of references to him/her self, me/myself, our/ourselves, them/theirselves and so on….. At first glance we could be mistaken for thinking that a ‘self’ is a tangible entity. Yet if we force ‘ourselves’ (another paradox) to try and locate the ‘self’ we discover just how elusive
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When life comes knocking
When life comes to us the way that nature wanted us to be we are often not at home! Our destiny knows our name and where we live but we are always somewhere else. We have become distracted! We have lost touch with our authentic selves. We choose to ignore our unique gifts and instead
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In Pursuit of Happyness
This was the title of an inspiring movie starring Will Smith which recounted the true life story of a young man (Chris Gardener) and his son’s struggle to find success and happiness. The story ended on high note with the man achieving his goal of becoming a successful and well paid stock broker. This story
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The Dis-ease of Seriousness
Lets start by considering the following definitions: “Serious” – earnest, deep thought, grave, sober, solemn. “Light-hearted” – cheerful, carefree, happy, untroubled, free from anxiety or seriousness, hopeful, easygoing. It is interesting to note that being serious requires you to be deep in thought. I have in previous articles touched on the consequences of too much
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The Price of Expectation
We seem to spend alot of our lives in expectation – expecting the worst, expecting the best, expecting the future we have always dreamed of , expecting success and expecting all manner of things. What is of more concern is that when we do actually achieve these things we realise that they haven’t brought with
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Mind Waves – An Inevitable Part of The Ocean of Our Being
I was reminded this morning as I rode the train to work and observed how beautifully calm Wellington Harbour was how similar our minds can be when we are calm and centred. The converse can also be true. Some mornings as I make the same trip the Harbour is choppy and the water disturbed. Similarly
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Jail “Bra’s” woman Lawyer!
Attorney Brittney Horstman was not packing heat. She was wearing an underwire bra. And when the metal detector went off on a visit to the Miami Federal Detention Center, security guards wouldn’t let Horstman in to see her client. The attorney reminded guards of a detention center “memo” allowing female attorneys wearing an underwire bra