"You cannot stand anywhere in the universe that is outside of yourself.” Deepak Chopra
06 Aug 2015
Browsing category: Wonder
31 Jul 2015
Did you know that at the age of 16, Pablo Picasso had completed three art works considered to be of academic perfection by the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid. What do you do with your life when you have achieved ‘perfection’ at 16 years of age? And more importantly is perfection possible or in fact necessary? Many years ago I read a biography about the French chanteuse Edith Piaf. One of her famous quotes is, “Use your faults, use your defects; then you’re going to be a star.” Hard as I tried, I didn’t get what she meant
26 Mar 2015
This Small Pleasures 90 second video from The School of Life is a beautiful vignette of some of the many beautiful things that being alive brings for us. Enjoy! Oh, and please remember to acknowledge (and thank) the small pleasures that creep into to your life today and for all your days on this planet
30 Jun 2014
The term ‘higher consciousness’ is often used by spiritually-minded people to describe important but hard-to-reach mental states. Hindu sages, Christian monks and Buddhist ascetics all speak of reaching moments of ‘higher consciousness’ – through meditation or chanting, fasting or pilgrimages. Unfortunately, the way in which these spiritual people discuss their states of higher consciousness has a tendency to put a lot of secular types on edge. It can all sound maddeningly vague, wishy washy, touchy-feely – and, for want of a