I wish people would read my older stories. Most will read my latest post that appears in their feed because they follow me or a publication. Others will read the…
Category: Mind and Body Contemplations
How Medium will be the Beacon Inspiring Humanity towards its Best Version
We only have ourselves. No one else can save us. No one else needs to.
What do you think of the United Nations? What about Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? The internet and Google? Do you think of them as powers for good? Facebook has become…
How Our Private Paradigm Shifts Help Us Grow
Quantum jumps in our lives
I had landed in Australia recently as a freshly minted immigrant. The excellent company I first joined got bought out in a few months, and I had moved to a large…
Philosophy of The Life Instinct: Chapter 8.4 Free Will
Free Will is the ability to choose between alternative actions. It needs the identification of the choices, through instinct or thought. Do self-awareness and Free Will go hand-in-hand? Is it…
The Quality of Small Things
To care is the sign of civilisation
I get such pleasure, an upswell of respect, a feeling of connection with kindred souls, a renewal of faith in humanity when I see: Perfect grouting between tiles Signs at…
Amazing Choice
This is our greatest gift. Let’s not squander it.
Isn’t it astonishing that we can actually choose what to think, how to feel and what to do? We make decisions and act on them every day, every hour and…
Why We Should More Creative Again Like Children
Most of us lose this joy. We should find it again.
Creativity is to imagine and produce something new. As children, we were all creative. We drew freely, built without rules and made up our own language or songs. It was…
How Increasing Mind Work is Killing Mindfulness
Our jobs should be more in touch with nature.
Gaze upon a shepherdess standing still under a tree in the savanna, chin on her stick, hearing the buzz of insects in the grass, the mewling of the lambs and…
I want to progress without artifice
Happiness is in doing something for the right reasons
I want to do the same task long enough to excel, not flit about and ride the career carousel I want to create tangible artefacts every day, not meetings and…
Vignettes of the Mind — Tea stall at a bend in the hill road
Foothills of the Himalayas. Paused at a tea stall. Deep valley falling away. Distant plains. Six charpoys in the clearing, in rough rows. Deodar shade dappling a few, sunshine on…