Lessons for living: Love and empathy

Lessons for living: Love and empathy

Love is a feeling of deep affection for someone or something. Empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of others. We are born premature. In order for the human to pass through the birth canal, it is most likely that nature planned for the baby to be...
Lessons for living: Emergence

Lessons for living: Emergence

Creativity is a way of being in which life feels new and fresh in each moment. It is marked by exploration and experimentation. This creative way of being is one in which there is deep sense of emergence and presence. Emergence is the experience of fresh perception,...
Lessons for living: Creativity

Lessons for living: Creativity

There was once a boy who banged a drum all day. No matter what anyone else said, he wouldn’t stop. Various people were called in by neighbours and asked to do something about the child. One by one, townsfolk came to warn the boy about his eardrums or that drums were...
Living the questions: What is my gift?

Living the questions: What is my gift?

A gift is something that is given. Like a present, it is something that is given freely. It can also refer to a notable capacity or talent that we possess. When we speak about a person’s gift or gifts, we are talking about something valuable that they hold inside...
Lessons for living: Inspiration

Lessons for living: Inspiration

Inspiration is the experience of being stimulated to do something, usually something creative. The experience of inspiration often involves a sudden, brilliant or timely idea. It is an act of ‘drawing in’, coming from inspirare, meaning to ‘breathe in’. When we say...