Archive for the ‘Spirtural’ Category

The Haunting Of My Heart

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

"As you move into your forties and fifties, the recognition of your own mortality becomes more and more a part of decision-making. You realize that you're not going to be around forever. Your choices become a lot more precious. The gap between your dreams and what you're actually doing narrows, ...

Your Place In The Sun

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

'Place in the sun' - a place/environment that promotes a sense of success, happiness, or prosperity. I have a friend who likes to go to Thailand.  For the past few years, he has visited at least once a year and in some years twice.  He has been to other parts of ...

Altruism, is it always selfless?

Monday, March 8th, 2010

A news story this morning caught my attention.  It was about the fact that bonobos, one of our closest primate relatives, prefer to share their food rather than eat alone. "Dr Hare said it could be purely altruistic, or more selfish motives could drive this behaviour because sharing could be exchanged ...

Lie Down and Die.

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

It struck me very strongly this week that in the week that Auschwitz survivors mark Holocaust Memorial Day (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8482760.stm), I happen to be reading Viktor E Frankel's "Man's Search for Meaning", Dr. Frankel was an Auschwitz survivor.  In the same week, news coming out of the disaster in Haiti cumulated ...

In the autumn of our lives

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

After a 12 day break from walking in the morning, I returned to experience the full colours of Autumn in the trees and on the grounds.  I may not like the cold and wet but I do find the colours so much richer and I love it. With my foot feeling ...

Trying to balance

Tuesday, September 15th, 2009

'No-one, even those closest to me, knows what I have had to go through to get to where I am now.  Why then do you resent what I have?' A few weeks before my identity theft saga started (see http://notthenews.net) , I told my mother that I could not find it ...

The meaning of karma

Friday, May 1st, 2009

I tend to use the word karma to describe the calm, peaceful balance.  Something that disturbs this state is said to be upsetting my karma.  I recently decided to look it up the proper meaning of the word and am horrified to discover that it doesn't mean anything like that ...

Spirituality and being an atheist.

Tuesday, January 20th, 2009

"Spirituality, in a narrow sense, concerns itself with matters of the spirit, a concept closely tied to religious belief and faith, a transcendent reality, or one or more deities.  Spiritual matters are thus those matters regarding humankind's ultimate nature and meaning, not only as material biological organisms, but as beings ...

Blue Monday Blues

Monday, January 19th, 2009

The 5th of January I wrote and said things where going back to normal.  How I lied!  If anything Christmas time is the worst time for making you break habits you have tried to hard to maintain.  The few days of not following routines are fatal to anything that requires ...

Happy New Year Resolutions!

Monday, January 5th, 2009

Well this is it, 2009 before we could even catch our breaths, everything's back to normal. Have you made any resolutions?  I have, but not because I think that one year turning into another will make it any different, just that it does provide a good excuse to try harder at ...

Inspiration and motivation.

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

Well I did suspect that this stuff would not be easy. After all I am a man of habit and when I need to change any one of them, it takes a great deal of effort. In fact most change is forced upon you and usually with a lot of ...

From this moment on…..

Thursday, September 25th, 2008

!-- @page { size: 8.5in 11in; margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } -->(With apologies to LeAnn Rimes.) All the changes I referred to in the last post, I realise, have led to something better though it may have not felt like it at the time. ...

I have started dreaming again

Saturday, December 15th, 2007

I have started dreaming again.  I mean the kind of dreaming that you do awake not the usually forgotten sleep process.  No, I mean those vivid, colourful day dreams that  make you feel good,  make you want to reach out and touch them.  You can call it hope if you want to.  Dreaming again ...