• ebook Download

    The ebook contains every post on this website from its inception in March 2018 up to and including 3rd March 2026

  • To Concentrate on “Good Things”

    How much better you feel when you focus on the good and ignore the bad.

  • The Contented Craftsman

    Is there anything so wondrous as a man truly happy in his own skin and content with his life and his occupation? As Dr Beran Wolf wrote: “If you observe a really happy person, you will find them building a boat, writing a symphony, educating their son, growing double dahlias in their garden, or looking…

  • Travel Broadens the Mind

    A day in Rye in East Sussex does not sound every-man’s idea of excitement but it is change which is important to the psyche, not distance traveled.

  • The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth

    Figuratively speaking I suspect the meek are indeed blessed and that in a sense they shall inherit, if not the earth, then at least a life of peace.

  • Mysticism

    Fascinated by the concept of transcendence I have started to conceptualize what I believe such states of existence could be. 

  • Unworked Wood

    Let the world go by and you may find yourself at peace.

  • Letting go

    I hadn’t quite realized until very recently just how damaging the human ego is.

  • In, and out of the Silence

    Can or should you remain in a state or place of “silence” or must or ought you return to the world?

  • Fading

    I had a curious sensation of fading, being absorbed into the background, while walking along a country lane in glorious winter sunshine.

  • The Algorithm

    The parallels between Taoism and the Algorithm are unmistakable, comforting and instructive.