Below is a full list of posts, grouped by category.
Awareness
- The Buddha on Right Speech – ancient wisdom for modern times
- Taming the Tyranny of the Busy Mind
- Be as still as a mountain
- Focusing
- The Flame of Total Attention – Ilie Cioara
- People Watching
- The Silence of the Mind – Living in the Moment
- The River of Timelessness
- Eckhart Tolle on Being Yourself
- In a Quiet Room
- One-Moment Meditation
- Five Seconds of Zen
- Beware of Garbage Trucks!
- The Awakening
- The Grass-is-Greener
- Nothing and No-one
- Making Our Minds Up
- The lady who forgot her shopping
- Journey to the Edge of My Mind
- God in Drag
- No Difference
- A Stroke Of Insight
- The Thirst for Spirituality
- To Become a Teacher
- Fixing the Hole in my Heart
- Awareness Test
- Planting Seeds
- The Question
- A Gift from the Setting Sun
- The Art of Listening
- The Paradox of Choice
- The Zen Traffic Warrior
Creativity
- Transformative Powers through Making
- Sweet Lorraine – a love song
- The Pixel Painter
- The Sand Dancer
- Lacrimosa – Requiem – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Masks in Venice
- Mozart’s illegal copy of Allegri’s ‘Miserere’
- Drawing Rome from Memory
- Night on the River
- Reflections on “The Cab Ride”
- The Path to Peace
- Hand in Hand
- The Song Still Sings
- Colored Path
- Sculpting in Driftwood – the beginning …
- No one hurries
- Amazing Talents of Ordinary People
- Telling Stories with Sand and Light…
- The Artist’s Way
- Brush Song – Who are We?
- Guerrilla Gardening
- Sixth Sense
- Here’s to the Crazy Ones…
- Bubble Poetry
Humour
- The Funniest Salesman
- God’s Creatures
- Seeing the lighter side…
- Lessons
- Salutation to the Cat
- A Seal of Approval
- This is Broken…
- Graham Chapman is no more…
Inspiration
- Rumi and Shams – The Power of Friendship
- Favourite quotes – 1
- Why we don’t succeed – Simon Sinek
- Alive to Each Moment – Sunrise from Mount Fuji
- True North – What Real Achievement Means
- The Window on the Heart
- The World Peace Game
- Our Deepest Fear
- Happy New Year – from London
- The Boy Who Lived Before – past life memories
- Living Your Dream
- Harold and Maude – The Flower Scene
- Sabbath Time
- Forgiveness
- Magis – A Call to Excellence
- From the Mouths of Babes
- Being Different
- What is that?
- What Inspires You? Part 4
- What Inspires You? Part 2
- What Inspires You? Part 1
- What Beauty Can You See?
- Being Seen
- Five-star-celebrity-filled-pleasure-factory-resort-spa!
- What Inspires You? Part 3
- Imagination
- The Little Princess
- Five little kids
- Sisters
- A Carefree Moment
- The Road Not Taken
- Love Thursday
- “It’s well book!” Stephen Fry on language
- Children Full of Life
Kindness
- Red Beans and Rice
- Reconciliation – a beautiful story
- Today you… Tomorrow me…
- Someone To Be
- The Mandala Trust
- A Fleet of Bodhisattvas
- “Metta” and the English Problem
- The Kindness Offensive
- An Unexpected Gift
- A boy’s last wish comes true
- The Train to Kyoto
- Something Nice for Somebody Else
- Manna
- The Kindness of a Stranger
- Tears in the Rain
- The Cab Ride I’ll Never Forget
- We bought EVERYTHING
- Hold-up ends amazingly
- Australian Love Story
- A Victim Treats His Mugger Right
Nature
- Starlings – thousands flying as one
- Chasing Ice – the Shrinking of the Arctic Ice
- How to green the world’s deserts and reverse climate change
- The Earth Seen from Space
- A Vulnerable Gracious Presence
- Flowers: A Meditation
- What it is…
- A World In Love with Itself
- Strong Enough To Bend
- Zen and the Lotus Blossom
- What a Wonderful World…
- A Whale’s Dance of Gratitude…
- Gorilla Encounter
- An Unusual Form of Communication
Quotes
Recent
- Hsin Hsin Ming – The Great Way
- Red Beans and Rice
- Why we don’t succeed – Simon Sinek
- It’s OK to Look Back and Cringe
- A Vulnerable Gracious Presence
- Sabbath Time
- Someone To Be
- Forgiveness
- In a Quiet Room
- An Odd Coincidence
- One-Moment Meditation
- Last Wishes
- Beware of Garbage Trucks!
Wisdom
- Hsin Hsin Ming – The Great Way
- It’s OK to Look Back and Cringe
- Harold and Maude – Reach out! Take a chance!
- Thrift Store Messiah
- Resources for Awakening
- Magician and Lover – Archetypal Images
- King and Warrior – Archetypal Images
- Ajahn Chah – Wisdom & Happiness
- Pema Chödrön – When Things Fall Apart
- Alan Watts – The Dance of Life
- Fruits of the Spirit
- When My Sorrow Fell Away….
- An Odd Coincidence
- Last Wishes
- A Bit of Undaunted Silence
- The Greatest Gift
- A Light in the Dark
- Teen Transformation
- His Last Days
- Perfectly Balanced
- Grace in Receiving
- A Perfect Moment
- Die Another Day
- This is Water – David Foster Wallace
- Not-Knowing is OK
- Choose Your Mantra with Care
- Never Give Up
- Achieving your Childhood Dreams
- Uprooted
- On the Toss of a Coin
- Find What You Love
- My Favorite Liar
- Making Peace with the Imperfect
- Counting the Emotional Cost
- Let me think about it
- Song of Myself – Walt Whitman
- A Snowy Moon
- A Happy Man
- Your life = 28,835 days; are you using it well?
- Either we heal now, as a team…