Like a train speeding down the track, it’s a hard animal to stop. Its catalyst needn’t be anything big, it can be something small that fires up the engines; a particular person, a movement, a word, perhaps a memory. It begins off smouldering and grows under our attention. As we indulgently brood over our emotions, […]

Mind With all this noise we fail to see anything around us. We cannot see the sun shining in the clear blue sky or feel the new touch of warmth in the breeze. As if with a message, a loud series of short, sharp calls suddenly come from overhead.

We look up at the ideal we fall so short of, embittered. If only that target wasn’t so high, or better again, if it didn’t exist at all, we wouldn’t appear so dreadful! In doing so, we bring the heavens crashing down to join us in the slums. Now we are level. Like handing someone […]

How about taking responsibility for it all? Every bit; whether you’re to blame or not. Quotes from Viktor Frankl, G. K. Chesterton and Terry Pratchett. It can be difficult to conceptualise fortune as we cannot see it or touch it, but we experience it nonetheless. Most difficult to grasp, is how random and often unfairly […]

Emerson, 1837, pg.21 When we travel to new places, we seem to wear a new lens. We actively seek moments of awe. We soak-in every moment of beauty and find inspiring moments even in the most desolate of circumstances. We’re seeing differently, more opportunistically; opening ourselves up to the possibility of being awe-struck. That engagement […]

Paying attention to what we say allows us to gain insight and promote change through our speech. With quotes from Heschel, Orwell & Eadie. Proverbs are nuggets of wisdom, passed down through centuries which we can still learn from today. ‘The Road to Hell is Paved with Good Intentions.’ The difference between being busy and […]

As if life is an instrument and we the soloist. It exists only because we exist. Its happenings are delegated by us and our sole responsibility is to attain our desires and to fulfil our own succession. When life becomes difficult we deem it unfair, coming from an assumption that life is to be kind […]

So, there has been a change of plan. The challenge presented to us time and time again, is to maintain balance. With quotes from Longfellow, Aurelius & more. What should we do in times of exhaustion? Perhaps ‘nothing’, is not the right answer. With quotes from F. Scott Fitzgerald, Joseph Addison & Charles Mackay. Get […]

Marcus Aurelius was once the most powerful man on earth- a Roman Emperor. ‘Meditations’ reveals ‘The Philosopher’; a king concerned with being a good man. Including quotes from Meditations. Fear offers us a very plain choice; be courageous or be a coward. A hero or a reprobate. With quotes from Michel de Montaigne, Seneca, George […]

Feeling isolated isn’t so much about being alone, as it is about feeling like we are in it alone. With quotes from Jung, Donne & more. ‘A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience’, so said Miguel de Cervantes. This week’s proverb: “The frog in the well knows nothing of the sea.” What […]

That engagement with awe soaks into our soul and becomes part of it. We’re uplifted, giving us renewed wind in our sails; a sense of excitement and wonder. It engages us with the world It can be difficult to conceptualise fortune as we cannot see it or touch it, but we experience it nonetheless. Most […]

“My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal it—all idealism is mendacity in the face of what is necessary—but love it.” Friedrich Nietzsche, 1888 (1908 published), Ecce Homo, […]

We know that truth can be painful to deliver and receive, and when relying on the truth to be kind we cannot guarantee to please and we will surely cause distress. But we decide what our motivations are and to what end. The act of being good implies adhering to a high standard of moral […]

Our surrounding conditions have the ability to consume us. It is incredibly difficult to fight against relentless and seemingly expanding gloom without being defeated. When we are choking on imposed misery, what are we capable of doing that isn’t a degenerative reaction to adversity. Defiance is the human spirit’s ability to disobey imposed influence. In a basic act of […]