"The day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom" —Anais Nin
Throughout my yoga class on Wednesday my teacher repeated the quote: "The day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom"...
Yoga is not about stretching and fitness, although these are nice side effects. Yoga is about opening the body, the mind and the spirit—but most of all it is about connection.
The Sanskrit word yoga Read more [...]
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The pain of remaining tight
"The day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom" —Anais Nin
Throughout my yoga class on Wednesday my teacher repeated the quote: "The day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom"...
Yoga is not about stretching and fitness, although these are nice side effects. Yoga is about opening the body, the mind and the spirit—but most of all it is about connection.
The Sanskrit word yoga Read more [...] Thoughts, actions, habits, destiny
In yoga last week my teacher drew attention to our thoughts. She said something along the lines of "our thoughts become our actions, our actions become our habits, our habits become our character, and our character determines our destiny."
This related to my current research project that is looking at connections between narratives and peace (which I have been madly trying to finish for the last year, hence the lack of blogging...)
Our thoughts are made up of narratives. Because we live in Read more [...] Thoughts on a morning walk
On my walk this morning:
- I realised that truth, reality, and illusion, are completely relative and self created
- the truth of a religion is truth for that person, it is made real by the stories that are told, and because each moment is in a way timeless, these truths are eternally real
- yet when truths are examined from different layers, from groups, from societies, from species, from planets, different truths, realities and illusions are illuminated.
- Read more [...] Thinking about Compassion, and signing the Charter
Call it procrastination or maybe even research, I've been spending a bit of time over the past week catching up on YouTube, RSA, TED Talks and general online initiatives connecting with my interests in peace, justice, environmental sustainability, technology and holistic worldviews.
Today I stumbled across the Charter for Compassion:
I remember author and scholar Karen Armstrong's TED Talk, which won the 2008 TED Prize.
Armstrong talks about how the Abrahamic religions -- Islam, Read more [...] 2013
I enjoy looking back and observing my year in the photos and comments, to see what I have been reading, talking about, thinking about.
In 2013 my blog posts were few and far between, indicative of a year consumed by events I organised through the Sydney Peace Foundation, trips to Cambodia, Paris, London and Tokyo, and trying to finish and submit my MPhil thesis. Something had to be compromised, and in 2013 is was my blogging. I miss it. I miss reflecting and sharing my thoughts. I miss the Read more [...] 2012
2012 in review
“Just Relax” “Forget” “Breathe”
Jan 05, 2012 | Do you ever tell yourself to “just relax” and then continue to do the very opposite? Or tell yourself to “forget it”. Or “frick’n focus!” And then find it impossible? Well that what happened to me today. Then it reversed itself in a way I didn't expect. It started with a 75-minute hot yoga class at Y Yoga, my health retreat since arriving in Vancouver. Today was different: a hundred and one thoughts Read more [...] Adventure
Japan – a poem
An experiment with experiential learning Brought me back Seven years had passed Since I called Tokyo
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Thoughts on a morning walk
On my walk this morning: - I realised that truth, reality, and illusion, are completely
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Global wealth pyramid – Credit Suisse
If your total wealth is over 1 million dollars you are in the top 0.5% of the global wealth pyramid.
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Peace
The pain of remaining tight
"The day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to bloss
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2013
I enjoy looking back and observing my year in the photos and comments, to see what I have been readi
