According to Rudolf Steiner the greatest obstacle modern man faces is the love of ease, or in modern terms, being a comfort junkie. Now this really rang true for me because I am the ultimate comfort junkie. Don't ask me to do anything out of my comfort zone, I will sulk. Of course this is really limiting, because I hardly ever challenge myself to do anything that lies outside my comfort and capability range. Not to say that I don't do...
Do you not intuit in the darkness the eternal sources of our transient being- Freidrich Nietzsche, Being or Existence. Do you have the capacity to still be astonished by life, by this world we live in, does the profound mystery of your being occur to you as you lie awake and alone in the dark, does the majesty of nature, the courage of the human spirit, the sublime melancholy of great art, and the glorious symphony of timeless music fill your...
What I really need is to get clear about what I must do, not what I must know, except insofar as knowledge must precede every act. What matters is to find a purpose, to see what it really is that God wills that I shall do; the crucial thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die - S'ren Kierkegaard. There is little doubt that this...
'”Well,” said Pooh, “what I like best,” and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn’t know what it was called. What a lovely piece of writing. It fills me with happiness just to read it. And yes I am capable of these types of feelings of happiness, fleeting as they...
Well, I was listening to Redi's show a few months ago and heard her speechless for the first time ever. I am not sure what the topic was when I tuned in, but I caught a young man (let's call him John) phoning in to say that if he spends his hard earned cash taking a woman out to dinner, he will be expecting her to 'put out' later. Afterwards, men were sms'ing and phoning to say that guys like...
During my anthroposophy class we discussed the concept of personal ethics. In Anthroposophy it is quite specific, in the sense that you need to act out of a position of love, which is selfless and has the other's best interest at heart. Ok, this is an ideal that is obviously REALLY hard to achieve, but the bottom line is that your personal ethics have to act as the foundation of your psyche. Your intentions and decisions need to be rooted...
This post is inspired by the movie Limitless. If you haven't seen it yet, go and see it tonight- trust me, it's that good. The plot is fairly simple. The main character Eddie Morra is a down and out writer, late twenties, whose life is going nowhere fast. When, through a series of circumstances, he comes into possession of a drug, NZT-47 which increases his cognitive abilities beyond belief. He goes from Mr. Dopey to a Albert Einstein/John F. Kennedy hybrid...
I have heard it said that our children are our greatest teachers. I'm not sure if that's always true, I would like to believe I know more now than I did as a kid- so doesn't that make me the teacher, rather than the student? Still, I have to concede, sometimes the exceptional happens, and a child comes along that does teach you. And when that happens it is both humbling and inspiring. Ruarc Alexander Farah, 5 years old, and my son,...
A few weeks ago, I was driving listening to Doctor Eve on Redi's show. I just caught a bit of the show, and I think it was about alcoholism linked to sex addiction. A woman had phoned in to complain about her friend who constantly embarrasses her when they go out on the weekend, because she gets totally pissed and then flirts with strangers and would go with them if the caller did not stop her. The caller said that the...
How secure do you think you and your loved are? Absolutely, 100% secure- free from any risk of harm or misfortune. As secure as one can reasonably be (which is pretty secure really), secure from anything bar an act of God (which is unlikely because I'm a clean living person and right with the Big Guy). Not all that secure, I recognise the potential for disaster is ever present. Which one of these three options, or some gradient between them, do you believe? I'm...
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