"Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill." Buddha
29 Mar 2016
Browsing category: Compassion
21 Mar 2016
"Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves." Princess Diana
29 Feb 2016
"It is such a secret place, the land of tears" Antoine de Saint-Exupery
02 Feb 2016
"Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom."
Rumi
20 Nov 2015
Recently I watched this short video about a group of photographers asked to take a portrait of a man. They were given different background information about who this man was before they met him. Each of the photographers went about applying their craft capturing the man with their story about him in their minds. The result - 6 very different photographs that in some way capture the story of the man they thought they had met. The story we have running about someone causes us to delete, distort and generalise the surrounding
17 Nov 2015
"We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop." Mother Teresa
11 Nov 2015
I came across this idea recently where someone had asked celebrities to write down their thoughts that completed the following statement: “ When I was younger, I wish I had known…” Now, I am no celebrity and perhaps no one would really care about what I wish I’d known, but something I find myself telling my children is this: “When I was younger, I wish I’d known that the things I worried about (like what job I’d get, or if I’d ever find someone to love or if I’d have healthy children) were a waste of my energy. Things will
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
08 May 2015
"I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night." Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner