This week a good friend of my son, Andrew, dropped in to see me. Their connection was through music and he had just begun a Masters. We had seen each other at a function for new post-graduate students. “I’ve had this idea buzzing around in my head since Sunday. There is so much distrust and …
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paradox
Anyway: The Paradoxical Commandments is a delightfully simple little book about ‘finding personal meaning in a crazy world’. In the 1960s, Kent Keith, while a student at Harvard, first articulated the ten principles found in this book. Without him knowing, these ten principles spread around the world. Afer many years, Keith was visiting Mother Teresa’s …
foundations
The foundations of a person are not in matter but in spirit. Ralph Waldo Emerson Friends, Thank you for comments and suggestions about Spirituality News. Thanks, Paul, for this very readable article on spirituality: Spirituality – Ben Dean and Erica for the Lowitja O’Donohue speech attached to the last Spirituality News. Help …
reconciliation
THURSDAY MAY 26 : Sorry Day – a National Day of Healing from 10am to 2:30pm at Tarndanyangga (Victoria Square) Mutual understanding is central to meaningful reconciliation. Reconciliation is not about flinging dollars at problems. It’s about ways of thinking that acknowledge social justice and fundamental human rights. It’s about leadership from the top and …
life-giving
Commenting on the recent events in the Vatican, Catholic priest Richard Rohr, OFM writes: The world’s response to the Papal events of the last month, either favorable or even antagonistic, made something very clear to me. There will always be a need for religion, and there will always be a large percentage of people who like …
The Longing
If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. Antoine de Saint-Exupery