I’d like you to meet Jacob Ben-Isaac, well known in his time as a scoundrel who some people say at one stage was under his mum’s thumb. Welcome Jacob.Jacob: Call me Jake.Also may I introduce the famous Dr Jung, creator of Jungian Theory, interpreter of dreams, and all round creative psychologist. Dr Jung has consented [...]
I have recently completed reading a book called “The Greening” by Margaret Coles. This book is a novel, but one with a twist, and this is my review of it… I chose to read this book because I hoped to find characters with four dimensions, based on my understanding of the fly cover. Yes, four [...]
A diamond is the hardest material in the world. It can easily score steel, glass, ceramics and other hard objects. However it has another characteristic. It is easily shattered. I remember reading a story by Wilbur Smith where a protagonist destroys millions of dollars of diamonds with a simple hammer and anvil. […]
Have you ever spent a day lying on your back in the sunshine, becoming part of the quiet, hearing the sounds of insects, feeling the prickle of grass on your skin? (If not, then, try and select a day from your memory banks that is very similar in terms of resting, not working, and not [...]
“Judge not and you will not be judged” Luke 6:37 I think that condemnation and judgement is always a roadblock to self growth. You see, I have a simplistic notion of love, and the supreme spirit is the instantiation of love. That is, love doesn’t die, and it doesn’t lie. Also what applies to one, [...]
I am sitting alone in the house, outside the air is cold, well freezing actually, at -10C. Snow lies an inch thick on the balcony, and it is quiet, the sort of quiet that comes when people are not wanting to be outside. I am peaceful. Sort of. Because paradoxically I long for this quiet, [...]
It seems to me that bliss is a state of peace where self-worth and love are like a protective force-shield around your soul, preventing the mistakes of the past from getting in and corrupting the moment. Take yourself into memory lane and remember a time when you were in bliss - recall it and how [...]
One of the great things about hostels or similar accomodation is that you get to meet lots of different people. That could not have been better illustrated than last night at the Roma Scout Center, near Bologna subway station. In the common room a number of us got together and started talking about our origins, [...]
How does one capture the romantic spirit of Paris? Having just left the beautiful city, there is a swirl of images creating an aura of the place around my head. Overwhelming artistry inundates every waking moment, from the intimate walkways of Montmartre, the opulence of the Palaces and Cathedrals, the sculptures and paintings of the [...]
“Life is a journey, not a destination.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson I guess we all have heard about the dichotomy of journey vs destination. “The road of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same. Yet our lessons come from the journey, not the destination.” Don Williams, Jr. (American Novelist [...]
