No Light Without Darkness
There can be No Light without Darkness. There is an old Chinese saying that “It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness.”
There can be No Light without Darkness. There is an old Chinese saying that “It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness.”
Affirmations or personal positive sayings repeated daily have been often used, by the New Age-Positive Thinking community as the prescription to a significant number of issues, ranging from low self esteem, to feelings of lack, to building better relationships and living a more abundant life.
Listen to the mustn’ts, child. Listen to the don’ts. Listen to the shouldn’ts, the impossibles, the won’ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me… Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.” ~ Shel Silverstein
At a conference recently, I walked right up to an automatic sliding door fully expecting it to open and let me out. But it didn’t.
We so very often live our lives in fear of making mistakes, making wrong decision. We seem to have embedded within ourselves this perception that every single choice we make has to be the absolutely correct one. Perhaps it is the nature of the society we live in, dictated to by achievement exams, seemingly final career […]
Unlike the title of the post, this post really is not about baking. Neither will it contain a recipe for a cake, far more than that, it contains a story that every person who has ever eaten, cooked or baked may relate to.
Before I had a child, I had always been focussed, purposeful, goal-driven. I invariably achieved most of what I had set out to…and yet, and perhaps it is meant to be so, in my parenting journey and subsequently in much of my life since, I have had to learn and re-learn the lessons of ‘letting […]
I had recently been contemplating the message of Trust and Letting things be, when i had the good fortune to visit Jardin du Luxembourg in Paris. It is a beautiful park with tree lined avenues, manicured lawns and riots of colour in its flower beds.
In our modern day society’s race to be, do and have more, we have constantly moved forward the boundaries of success. Not surprisingly, we have also falsely learnt to equate success with happiness.
A little while ago, I participated in an online discussion on LinkedIn that started off something like, ‘It is more important to live with Passion than with Purpose. Discuss.’
You know how all those self-help, ‘achieve your wildest dreams’ type of books always always say that you have to practise Gratitude, to give thanks and be grateful for our lot in life?
Live in the present Believe in coincidences No matter how small Accept that we are all different
Just the other day, I had a to do list as long as my arm and at the end of the day I had not ticked one single thing off. Was it frustrating? Of course it was, and yet at the end of the day, I realised that although I had not accomplished anything I’d […]
Mindfulness is emotional control Mindfulness is coolness and clarity of thought Mindfulness exists in overcoming emotional storms By defusing them, rather than indulging them.
Look to this day For it is Life, the very life of Life In it’s brief course lie all the Verities and realities of your existence