Elihu’s Key by Mal Garvin – a short excerpt
How to discover our source of human illumination If as Elihu says “It is the spirit in a man that gives understanding,” this source of wisdom has significant implications for the way we engage with the whole of life. It has profound implications for the way we manage...
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The great paradox of modern spirituality “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters, compared to what lies within us.” ...
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HEARING THE VOICE OF SANITY THROUGH THE STATIC Problems arise from our narcissistic leanings, materialistic culture and old parent messages. They so clutter the airwaves of our personal and social discourse most of us have lost the ability to recognize with clarity...
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THE SECRET OF POWERFUL AND TRANSFORMING LEADERSHIP Donald Broadbent from the cognitive school of psychology actually believes that our traditional understanding of leadership can be significantly enhanced by looking at leadership through the lens of a cognitivist....
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Carl Jung said, “To strive for perfection is futile, but we must strive for completion; but the path to completion always goes through the doorway of self acceptance.” Many Christians last century believed they had to be perfect because of a faulty translation in the...
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CHRISTMAS IS DIFFERENT As we draw near to Christmas it’s easy to feel a bit cynical about the message of peace on earth and good will to men. As we fight our way through the crowds and traffic, and cope with our emotions after looking at our bank balance, it might be...
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“We consciously practice spiritual intelligence when we intentionally choose spirit over ego, love over fear, the highest good for all, over self interest.” Dietrich How can you spot the difference between a divinely illuminated vision and an egocentred fantasy? A...
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“One may understand the cosmos but never the ego; that understanding of the self is more distant than any star.” G.K.Chesterton The path to peace is also a path that is willing to confront negative emotion. What is a negative emotion? It is an emotion that is toxic to...
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“Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They did not mean to do harm. They are however, absorbed into the endless struggle to think well of themselves. T.S. Eliot Neuroscience can tell us how the brain functions to enable...
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Does our spirit weigh twenty one grams? The trailer of the film Twenty One Grams starring Sean Penn and Naomi Watts starts by declaring ”They say we all lose 21 grams at the exact moment of our death.” The inference is that this is the weight of our human spirit....
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