Posted in Hermits, Hermits & Solitude, Life Skills on Jan 28th, 2012
I’ve written before about the “Hermit Writings of S” and posted his script in its entirety on this site. See here. In order to bring his writings to a wider audience, I’m going to post extracts from the Hermit Writings according to various themes which he himself used as sub-titles. They’re intended as bite-sized chunks [...]
Posted in Hermits & Solitude, Life Skills on Jan 10th, 2012
If New Year Resolutions are faltering – try this different approach and see how you go I hope and trust that 2012 is starting well for you. But if your efforts to maintain your resolutions for the new year are already starting to falter, then read through these quotations and see if they speak to [...]
Posted in Current Affairs, Hermits & Solitude on Sep 11th, 2011
Bodh Gaya, in Bihar, northern India. (No! I’m still in northern Newfoundland trying to get a new transmission for the boat.) If you’ve every wondered what the place was like today where the Buddha reached enlightenment, here are some photos I took during my short visit to India in the fall of 2008. Everyone [...]
Posted in Hermits & Solitude, Life Skills on Mar 29th, 2011
The season’s are changing – so it must be time to be on the move once more. After leaving “Kuan Yin” out of the water in northern Newfoundland last fall, I travelled to northern Thailand and settled in Chiang Mai for a few months. And what a great place: The weather was warm The food [...]
Posted in Hermits, Hermits & Solitude, Life Skills on Mar 5th, 2010
I’ve written before about the “Hermit Writings of S” and posted his script in its entirety on this site. See here. In order to bring his writings to a wider audience, I’m going to post extracts from the Hermit Writings according to various themes which he himself used as sub-titles. They’re intended as bite-sized chunks [...]
Posted in Current Affairs, Videos on Jan 25th, 2010
“You are what you think, Having become what you thought,” according to the Buddha. He might also have added, “You are what you eat, having become what you ate.” When you start to think about it – what a lot of us put in our mouth and swallow is actually pretty shocking. It’s as if [...]
Posted in Life Skills on Jan 14th, 2010
Here we are in the middle of one of the major shopping periods – the January sales – in many parts of the world. So maybe it might be useful to count all our belongings. What really belongs to us? How much of our “stuff” is really ours.
Posted in Life Skills on Jan 3rd, 2010
We meet bullies everywhere today — in our schools, at work and at home, between nations, and, if we are really honest, often in our own hearts. Tactics can take many forms, from the school yard bully with a vicious tongue and physical strength, to complex trade agreements and national laws that inflict a bully’s [...]
Posted in Life Skills on Jan 3rd, 2010
How do we get out of the mental boxes we so often put ourselves in? We all have ambitions and dreams of what we want to do or how we want our lives to be; but often we don’t take action because we’re too focused on what might go wrong. Or else we’re afraid we’ll [...]
Posted in Books/Language, Hermits, Hermits & Solitude on Jan 2nd, 2010
A Hermit in the Himalayas by Paul Brunton Paul Brunton was born in London in 1898 and died in Switzerland as recently as 1981. This book is part travelogue through what is still a fairly remore region of the world and part spiritual experience. The book was originally published in 1938, at a time when [...]
"Serendipity" is the art of finding something valuable or delightful when you're not looking for it. It's how you might also define living life as an adventure - which is something I seek to do each day - and accepting whatever happens, happy or hard.
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