Posted in Hermits, Hermits & Solitude, Life Skills on Feb 5th, 2011
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, 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 Hermits, Hermits & Solitude, Life Skills on Mar 4th, 2010
If you haven’t already heard of the Alaska National Wildlife Reserve, at the north-west tip of North America, chances are very good that you will be hearing a lot about the Reserve from oil companies and politicians pushing to get the area opened up to drilling for oil. But here’s a great new documentary about [...]
Posted in Life Skills on Feb 15th, 2010
Don’t get me wrong. Money is important. No-one denies that. The better question to ask oneself is HOW important is it? If it’s very important, is it the most important aspect of your life, or just something that’s very important along with lots of others high priorities, like health and love? And if you had [...]
Posted in Buddhism, Current Affairs on Feb 11th, 2010
You are what you eat, having become what you ate. Not the exact words of the Buddha two and half thousand years ago. What he said, in the opening words of the Dhammapada, was, ” You are what you think, having become what you thought.” Not so very different, I would argue. So what do [...]
Posted in Hermits & Solitude, Life Skills, Videos on Feb 8th, 2010
What is it that attracts people to a hermit? Though the image of a man or a woman who lives alone, disconnected from the attachments of the world, is often of an angry or deranged misantrope, the reality is more usually very different. One clear example is Robert E. Harrill who, at the age of [...]
Posted in Sailing on Jan 15th, 2010
If you’ve every dreamed of a quieter, simpler life – then this short story is for you. Though it’s a favourite among cruising sailors (for obvious reasons when you read it), Martyr’s story is really about the yearning all of us feel from time to time to be FREE.
Posted in Life Skills on Jan 6th, 2010
The other day a friend amazed me by his casual statement that he was “killing time”. I know what he meant but I was appalled. As someone who would happily have an extra 12 hours in every day, I find it hard to understand how time can become such a burden. (Though sometimes when meditating, [...]
"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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