Essential questions

Sometimes essential questions arise. What is my purpose? What is life about? These often arise in times of pain or crisis. Life can keep us busy – jobs, family, obligations, groups, expectations, people to look after.BUT, when one or some or all of these...

Fear can limit one’s life

Did you ever read that book “Feel the fear and do it anyway”? I did. I owned it for years but didn’t reread it. Nice idea. Nice concept but it just seemed so hard to feel fear and still do the thing that I thought was causing the fear. I’m the sort of person who feels...

An adventure into this moment

An adventure into this moment.This moment, not the next and not the last but right here, right now. Not talking about it but being.So if I accept and are willing to be right here right now, in this moment, what might happen? Do I know? And, if I don’t know, then it...

It can be panicky to not know the future

It can be panicky to not know what’s in the future. There is something about knowing that gives a space to relax and feel secure. What is that really? Why do we like to know?Sometimes, even if it’s bad stuff, it’s better to know that not know. Then...

Blame

Recently I saw the movie “Penguin Bloom”. Maybe you have seen it. Maybe you also had tears running down your cheeks.One of the children blames himself for his mum becoming a paraplegic. And the film shows how he then interprets the way his mother looks at him, the...