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ebook Download
The ebook contains every post on this website from its inception in March 2018 up to and including 3rd March 2026
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Achievement
What does achievement mean? What have you achieved and by what standards will you be judged? Will you be found wanting and if so should you care?
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The Medici
If you are tempted to envy the wealth, power and influence once wielded by this famous Florentine dynasty, consider what it took to achieve and maintain it.
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Mystical Unity
Hard as they are to describe, if I had to use one word to paint a picture of a mystical experience, unity would do the job very nicely. The neuroscientists would write the experience off and explain it away in terms of tedious chemical reactions and the like, but those who have had such experiences…
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Anger
It is very disappointing to have given in to anger, which in retrospect could easily have been averted by withdrawing from the scene.
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The Path of Slowness
Slowness is a vital ingredient, in my case at least, in encouraging me along the path I wish to follow.
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Mystical Experience of Reality
There are certain activities or states of mind which trigger in me what Abraham Maslow calls “peak experiences”. Reading Keith Hancock’s Mystical Experience of Reality does just that.
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A Funny Old Monk
My 26 year old son is clearly a perceptive fellow and he hit the nail on the head when describing his father as “a funny old monk”.
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To Seek Silence
Silence is not the absence of sound but the absence of noise. Noise is not simply the presence of undesired sound.
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In the World but not Of It.
A while back I found myself disturbed that a blogger could crusade in favor of violence and dissension and against ecumenism.
