Time can seem such an ephemeral concept that it is almost unreal and yet it drives our ordinary lives with a powerful authority and we can be swept along in its great tide. Timetables and schedules organise our day. Habitual patterns of activity keep pace with the unfolding of the day’s hours, minutes and even seconds. Speed is urged to …
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What a bundle of contradictions we humans can seem to be! We want to belong, to be like everyone else, and yet at the same time we desire to be acknowledged and to express our individuality within the larger group. The wondrous thing is that together we form the kingdom in nature which finds it possible to identify both with …
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At this time of year while there is an emphasis on finishing up and fulfilling undertakings, there is also a magnetic pull into the seasonal celebrations and the prospect of a fresh start with a new year. In a way we are both poised and yet fast moving forward like an arrow still in high flight between bow and target …
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In our multifaceted world there are many different ways of seeing any one situation. Each perspective is influenced by a history of associations and values that may stretch back through untold lifetimes of family, ethnicity, culture and language. And at the heart of every moment there is the Presence of eternal truth. In the surface world of physical plane life …
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Television programmes such as Rise of the Continents; Wonders of the Universe; and First Life give focus to the great movements that manifest the planet as we know it – that nurturing sphere in which all the natural kingdoms can flourish, interact, learn and grow in understanding of each other and of the purpose of this great Being in Whom …
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This month, on Saturday 21st September, the 30th anniversary of the United Nations International Day of Peace will be celebrated in a world where great movements for peace, humanitarian agencies, compassionate initiatives and peaceful international relations are multiplying at an ever increasing rate. At the same time we see continuing the bitter legacy of religious and sectarian wars, torture, the …
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It can be disconcerting to suddenly realise that something has been hidden from our attention yet has been in plain sight all along – if we had only looked! Often there can be present, yet unseen, things of great beauty or which have the power to release us from restrictive and burdensome problems. In many cases the constraints we experience …
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How easy it is to appreciate our world when we find ourselves in natural surroundings where the harmony and living splendour of the planet surpasses any man-made landscape. At the same time it is man-made technology that enables us to share the inspiring experience of our planetary home, as our technical media leaps across time and location with immediacy of …
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It’s been said that we are made of stardust. The thought is uplifting in its implication of an exalted potential and an expanded sense of being and of relationship with something unknown yet deeply familiar, with something greater and larger than our ordinary selves, beyond all earthly aspiration. This deep relationship resounds in this verse: Broadly has spread the praise …
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Sydney Goodwill Goodwill is love in action