In March 1973, E.B.White (born in 1899, was one of the greatest essayists of his time) wrote the following perfectly formed reply to a Mr. Nadeau, who sought White’s opinion on what he saw as a bleak future for the human race. Continue reading
transformation
The Only Thing I can Change is Myself
The greatest reason for our need to know ourselves is that we may become greater channels for the expression of the living spirit in helpfulness to others.
Without execution, the revolution stops dead in its tracks
Everybody talks about change. In recent years, a small industry of changemeisters has preached revolution, reinvention, quantum change, breakthrough thinking, audacious goals, learning organizations, and the like. We’re not necessarily debunking this stuff. Continue reading
It seems that only after great pain and struggle are we willing to let go of our obsession with self-preservation and let life flow a little….
While playing on a hot summer day, two young children notice a dripping garden hose. The drop-by-drop trickle provides them with a desire for a real thirst-quenching gulp. But as they grab the hose from one another they feel the lack of real fulfilment.
They spend all their time
rather than using their creativity to follow the hose to its source and turn on the faucet. Continue reading
Ancient Wisdom in Modern Times – Deepak Chopra and Satguru
Self Discovery and then Self Healing
Whether we are dealing with a student who is maladjusted, or a marriage which is skidding toward failure, or a war neurosis, the essentials of a therapeutic experience seem to be the same. Continue reading
Book Recommendation : On Becoming a Person by Carl Rogers
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“I believe it will have become evident why, for me, adjectives such as happy, contented, blissful, enjoyable, do not seem quite appropriate to any general description of this process I have called the good life, even though the person in this process would experience each one of these at the appropriate times. Continue reading
Peace -Walk on the Razors Edge of Now
I must create in order to know myself
Why is it so important to my psyche that I compose music ?….And why is the creative impulse never satisfied; why must one always begin anew ? Continue reading
The Girl Who Silenced the World for 5 Minutes!
When Severn Cullis-Suzuki stepped on stage at the plenary session of the Rio Earth Summit in 1992, she knew this was her one opportunity to speak to the world’s most influential decision-makers…. How much has changed since then?
