Hope beyond the scars:
"At the timberline where the storms strike with the most fury, the sturdiest trees are found." Hudson Taylor The difference between hope and optimism is that optimists expect the best while hope addicts know that in spite of the scars and no matter how bad things...
read moreAuthentic?
"What we love to do we find time to do." John Lancaster Spalding. It is in fact a good measure of where our heart is. It is also a measure of how congruent our our values are with our stated ideals. It can be helpful to check how often our esteem needs ( i.e. need for...
read moreThe therapeutic power of forgiveness
"You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you, and feel the power from deep within to wish them well." Lewis Smedes. It may take some work to get there, but it's the work that will cleanse your neurons of your neurotic past and your...
read moreHow not to feed a neurosis.
"Don't worry if you're a kleptomaniac, you can always take something for it." They say a neurotic person never really wants to be saved from their neurosis they just want to be more comfortable in it. There is always valid suffering in growth but as it is said "The...
read moreIN CELEBRATION OF EASTER
Good Friday fifty six years a young and troubled rat bag went to a City Mission Easter camp and found a center to his soul by understanding the Easter message for the first time. It gave me a 'telos, ' a divine direction that I am thankful for to this very day. May...
read moreDon’t get kids to study Australia Day.
“A lot of people want to own land, property, other people… but…in the long run all a man ever owns is his story.” A line from the movie Australia I know Peter Garret personally and played Midnite Oil’s music way back when other stations wouldn’t touch it. Politics has...
read moreThe transformational leader’s role in times of change.
“Leadership will always play a key role during those times when a society faces a new problem and must develop new responses to a given situation. One of the functions of leadership is to provide guidance at precisely those times when habitual ways of doing things no...
read moreGrowing a sustainable movement.
HOW DO YOU SURVIVE WHEN THINGS GET TOUGH? All the economic indicators are that things are likely to get much worse before they get better. Economist and author E.F. Schumacher said just before his death ”It is my personal belief that industrial society unless...
read moreThe Need For An Inspired Vision:
”There is one thing stronger, than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.” Victor Hugo I went to the Occupy Wall Street demonstration in Hobart last week and found it stimulating. I was able to share something and it seemed well...
read morePreparing for the Catalytic Moment: Notes for a global awakening.
”Thou hast made us for thy self O God, and our hearts are ever restless until they find their rest in Thee.” Augustine. The setting : Global restlessness a sign of hope. The self satisfied ego has been the main blockage to authentic spiritual transformation and...
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