"Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you."
William Makepeace Thackeray
19 Jun 2016
Browsing category: Meaning
11 Jun 2016
"Writers, not psychiatrists, are the true interpreters of the human mind and heart."
Florence King
05 Jun 2016
"Every reading of a book is a collaboration between the reader and the writer who are making the story up together."
John Green
19 May 2016
"Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time." Malcolm X
15 May 2016
Finding patterns that run through our lives can help us better understand how certain behaviours or repeating thoughts occur in our life story. If we want to consciously move into a new behaviour and a more enriched story for our lives, we need to spend some time looking at our patterns. The father of transnational analysis, Eric Berne, discovered that there are what he called life scripts that recur across the human family. The ways these scripts come into being are of course diverse, but there are similarities in the patterns
11 May 2016
"What we see depends mainly on what we look for." John Lubbock
29 Apr 2016
When I was an English teacher working in Thailand, every lesson started with the traditional Añjali Mudrā greeting of reverence. The class would pitch their hands in front of their faces as if in prayer and sing out, “Sa-wat-dee kha” and “Sa-wat-dee-khrap.” A benediction of great regard. The term used for teacher in Thai is ‘Ajahn’ which is honorific, like the Japanese term, ‘sensei’ denoting esteem for one who has mastered something worthwhile. There were some mornings, severely hung-over from a night of Thai Mekong whiskey
27 Apr 2016
"Life doesn't happen to us, but happens with us." Dr Shefali Tsabary
22 Apr 2016
“Once you live a good story, you get a taste for a kind of meaning in life, and you can’t go back to being normal; you cant go back to meaningless scenes stitched together by the forgettable thread of wasted time.”
Don Miller
15 Apr 2016
I was discussing with my daughter an assignment she had about emergent literacy. She was exploring how children (and adults) acquire literacy skills and what actually denotes a literate being. The key idea in her assignment was the concept of sense making. Simply put, when someone is able to ascribe meaning that matters around a symbol of communication they are literate. So a person can see the symbol of man or woman on a door and make sense that that the object is in fact the door to a toilet or change room. A tick means yes,