Free eBook of Personal Creeds

A personal creed is a statement of who we are and how we live. In a recent post How to Write a Personal Creed, I invited all readers to write theirs and received many inspiring examples. After posting those examples, I continued to receive comments from bloggers who wrote their personal creeds. This was clearly [...]

Parallel Universes: You May Be Everything You Ever Wanted To Be

When I first heard about the concept of parallel universes, I laughed. This was the stuff of science fiction, and I was expected to take it seriously? Yet I respected the source and decided to read up a little more. What I found was both intellectually flabbergasting and personally liberating. photo credit: bagaball Science is [...]

How Does Your Life Script Read?

Here’s a very clever and thought-provoking Youtube video that will show you exactly how you can choose to live differently by literally playing your thoughts backwards. It’s less than 2 minutes long so do take a look.

The Lost Generation (1 min 44 s)

I wondered if this was difficult to do and decided to have a go with the motto on the left of this page. Read on and tell me what you think of it!

The Illusion of Right vs Wrong, Good vs Bad

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
- William Shakespeare

We humans are quick to judge. In the wild, quick judgment could save lives as prey need to ascertain whether or not to flee from potential predators. Most of us, however, judge when there is not much at stake, except perhaps our egos and our need to be right.

One way to stop judging others is to realise that most of our judgments are fallacies. We judge something to be right or wrong, good or bad, when this distinction is actually an illusion, as all dualities are.

What a duality is

Make love not war
Creative Commons License photo credit: snik38

A duality refers to two opposing forces, each of which gets their meaning from the other, as what the other is not. For example, day and night are defined with reference to each other. ‘Day’ is the time when it is not ‘night’ and vice versa. When one half of this duality is absent, the remaining word has no meaning.

Why You Should Trust Your Instinct

How much do you trust your instinct, and why or why not? Our society prizes logical analysis, rational thought, reasoned arguments. Yet there is growing evidence that your instinct may be more accurate after all. Here I’ll take the terms ‘instinct’, ‘intuition’, ‘gut feel’, ‘hunch’ and ‘sixth sense’ to all mean the same thing – [...]

Why Are We So Attached To Desired Outcomes?

Don’t you just hate it when things don’t turn out the way you planned? Like the stockmarket heading south when it’s supposed to double your investment over the next five years. Or airport problems causing a major delay in your travel plans. Or a date cancelling at the last minute because of work. The ideal [...]

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