We’re in the tomb before we’re in the tomb, and that’s a fact. Human beings are the giants of the earth – we have reason, sensibility, pride, anger, vengeance and all the feelings under the sun – but with all that power and strength at our fingertips we are unable to prise open the lid [...]
Continue Reading...Are we nature or nurture? A question we love. But the answer goes down to roots and up to the tips of branches. It goes into the mind’s eye of the child you were and asks, ‘How do you feel about being here with the universe beating against you?’ For this is the question in [...]
Continue Reading...It doesn’t take too much imagination to realize that life is beset with tests and trials. Hardly ever is it the smooth, untroubled water we would like it to be. In our better moments, during the hours of daylight perhaps, we can take a certain relish in these problems, and feel that our strength is [...]
Continue Reading...The secrets of life yield themselves aphoristically – in dreams and memories, in poems, paintings and songs – often seeming cryptic but in reality not so. You only need the key, which lies within. The inner being forms and shapes the outer symbols. It asks you to listen, not for what is the same but [...]
Continue Reading...The ‘difficulty of belief’ surrounds the festivals at this time of year. No matter what religion you belong to, no matter whether you are a humanist or an atheist or something else, it’s still possible or even necessary to make your children happy with gifts at the mid-wintertide and to enjoy the mood of warmth [...]
Continue Reading...On any path worth travelling the questions burn, like footsteps on an urgent journey. For those who choose not to move the answers come more easily and will be just as easily cast aside. And there must be lights on the way, candles you will burn to see that the air is cold and gleaming, anticipating [...]
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