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The Power of a Lyric
The words of a song can stay with you for years. A simple line can have the most profound effect, not just on our emotions, but on our very psyche. Over the coming weeks and months I would like to share with you some lines of songs that have stayed with me and shaped me […]
Mid-life crisis
A German term for mid-life crisis: “Torschlusspanik”: Shut gate panic, caused by fear of being on the wrong side of a closed gate.
Fear
Eckhart Tolle: ‘You can assume that virtually everyone you meet or know lives in a state of fear. Only the intensity of it varies. It fluctuates between anxiety and dread at one end of the scale and a vague unease and distant sense of threat at the other. Most people only become conscious of it […]
Non-Religious Quotes for Consecration of a Cemetery?
Suggestions from a friend: My favourite quote is Dag Hammarskjold’s “The day you were born, everyone was happy, you cried alone. Make your life such that in your last hours, when all around you are crying, you alone are left without a tear to shed. Then you may calmly face death whenever it comes.” I […]
Our framing story
Brian McLaren, [http://brianmclaren.net] in his book Everything Must Change, [http://astore.amazon.com/soulthou-20/detail/0849901839] talks about our framing story – the ultimate story we tell ourselves about how the world works. For example, if our framing story tells us that the purpose of life is to have as much stuff as possible and to have the greatest pleasure possible […]
Sitting with Pain
Recently I received some news which was particularly unpleasant. My emotional response over the next week ranged from defensiveness, to acceptance, to seeing my part, to mild depression, not in that particular order. One of the lessons in life I have learned over the last few years (I’m now 40. You would think I wouldn’t […]
Something to think about…
Washington DC Metro Station on a cold January morning in 2007. He played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. During that time approx 2 thousand people went through the station, most of them on their way to work. After 3 minutes a middle aged man noticed there was a musician playing. He slowed his […]
Declan – Tell Me Why – a children’s tribute
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9F31ScdYbK8
Hope
“Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are anger and courage. Anger at the way things are, and courage to see that they do not remain as they are.” St. Augustine
Happiness
“Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn’t burn up any fossil fuel, doesn’t pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.” Margaret Mead
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