Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote “There is no planet, sun, or star could hold you if you but knew what you are.” How can we in fact fulfil our potential? A young unknown Hollywood film director had a great idea for a movie. He worked out the finances and decided it could...
What’s the biggest mistake you’ve ever made? Maybe if you learnt something from it, it wasn’t a total disaster. What would you say are the things most likely to bring you undone? 2000 years ago Roman philosopher Cicero said that there are six basic mistakes made by...
In his book “Guide for the Perplexed” EF Schumacher recounted an event that took place on an official visit to Leningrad. He said, “I consulted a map to find out where I was. I couldn’t make it out. From my vantage point I could see several enormous churches...
Each moment is the meeting place between two eternities. Have you ever been so wrapped up in doing something that it is as if time is standing still? There’s a part in all of us that is bigger than time and space and longs to be deeply and positively engaged with...
LIVING IN THE SILENCE Family communication Did you know that husbands and wives speak to each other on average, only about seven minutes a day and fathers and teenage sons manage only around seventy seconds a day? Which family member would you say gets the most...
