“Loneliness is a sign you are in desperate need of yourself.” ~ Rupi Kaur This quote showed up in my newsfeed on Facebook just as I was engrossed in messaging a friend who had said she was afraid of being lonely. We chatted on about her finding her footing four years after the death of [...]
Each morning here on the island of Aegina in Greece, I open the white metal shutters of our bedroom and press them back against the bisque coloured stucco. They are secured with black iron hinges shaped like ‘S’s that swing up and keep them from blowing and banging in the breezes off the sea below. [...]
“Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.” Soren Kierkegaard Many of us want change in our lives but do not know how to go about actioning it or what exactly it is we want to change. Too often what we want to change is beyond our [...]
“To go wrong in one's own way is better then to go right in someone else's.” ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky If we were to count the number of influences on us from birth of what to be or how to be. How to be ‘good’ or what career we ‘should’ choose, we might be amazed. Some [...]
"What we do during our working hours determines what we have; what we do in our leisure hours determines what we are." ~ George Eastman We live in a commercial world in that we exchange goods and services for money or in barter with other goods and services. This is the way our world works, and we [...]
"A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself." ~ Henry Ward Beecher In this world of media generated trends of what is and is not acceptable or admirable or achievable, being oneself is a difficult accomplishment. And if you are concerned with fitting in or being part of the crowd, then [...]
"The key about the creation of full self-expression is to be authentically who you are, to project that." ~ James Cromwell No one can do you as well as you can. No one can say you are not doing you right. No one can judge you as lacking, not good enough, nor smart enough, young [...]
"An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose." ~ Langston Hughes The truth is, when it comes to self-expression we are all artists in evolution. What our art is will announce itself loudly in terms of what we culturally label [...]
"Happiness is a matter of one’s most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self." ~ Iris Murdoch Can happiness be this simple? There are a couple of ironies to this statement. First is of being busy. In our culture we have exchanged busyness for fulfilment. There is a tendency to brag [...]
All men should strive to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why. ~James Thurber If we could answer these three simple questions in the one, ‘are you here now?’ our purpose in life would be revealed, we would suffer no stress and we would know the joy of self-fulfilment. However, we [...]
