OUR BIGGEST MISTAKES
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...
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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 but...
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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...
read moreTHE ULTIMATE GOAL When sculptor Auguste Rodin, famous for his great work The Thinker, was reaching the end of his long and brilliant life, a friend found him his studio weeping over a newly finished statue. The visitor, who couldn’t understand the old man’s grief...
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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...
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MYSTICAL MOMENT The remarkable phenomenon of spiritual illumination. It is late at night. A man has driven many miles to a house on the shore of a lake. He parks his car and walks down the steps to pier jutting out into the water. On this clear moonlit night he...
read moreHURDLES INTO LADDERS When is it time to give up? The question faces us all at some time or another. Some of the worst tragedies affecting individuals today come from the inability to stand life’s strain. Many think, ‘If only I could be free of all the...
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read moreFACTS ARE NOT NECESSARILY TRUTH OR WISDOM.
"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom." Isaac Asimov Facts are not wisdom. Wisdom is the framework of meaning we give the facts. A mind full of facts can help you play a mean game of trivial pursuit,...
read moreOne to forgive; two for reconciliation.
Everything can be taken from a man but the last of the human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way. Victor Frankl "Forgiveness takes just one person; reconciliation takes two." Dr Henry Cloud in the book...
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