Again, watching Al Jazeera early in the morning. It is difficult to see someone being interviewed who has lost 21 members of his family. Merely the illness of one of the people I regard as friends causes me disturbance never mind their death, expected or sudden. If my entire family was wiped out at one go I think I would go into a state of shock. I saw a journalist say that he had lost his...
A lovely way to start the day. A whole 60 seconds of video about LOVE (not lurve) is Jesus’ message misunderstood? As some of you know, I have regular conversations with my friend John who is one of the few people who are on my wavelength and he has been so over the decades. We meet on Skype and between us we generate enough alchemy for me to improve my understanding of what is important, and...
Peace is not stasis. Peace is not 'doing nothing'. Peace is active, a dynamic. We have a choice of two vectors, and only two. We can either do things to bring people together, or we can do things to cause people to move apart. This is the core of what it means for us as human beings with free will. We can think of the idea of a moral compass. In other words what are our priorities? A clue is...
I have had an on-off relationship with astrology for as long as I can remember. One of the best readings I ever had was with someone who assisted in the vetting of American troops. Every single thing he mentioned was spot-on including weaknesses and strengths of character. He had never met me, and the only thing he had was my birthday details. C G Jung on astrology "Understood in terms of his...
I have just had three hours of collective listening to three very good speakers and I have just left the afternoon session 60% of the way through because my head is bursting with ideas and the text for today's diary. Following on the statement made by Catherine of Genoa a few days ago I feel that I am a monist. Monism is a theory or doctrine that denies the existence of a distinction of...
[tta_listen_btn] This is what I was faced with when I returned from the church group. Françoise had been diligently collecting produce from the garden which includes grapes and we are going to have to use our juicer to extract the juice. They are small and who wants to spit out pips each time. I can honestly say that no two days are ever the same. Although I am under strict instructions not to...
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