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The prettiness and uselessness of insights

Posted in How to live, Philosophy and culture, Transformation and inspiration, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on 10 July, 2010 | 5 Comments »

For the last few months I’ve been struggling with an issue, and one of the things that distresses me most, apart from the struggle itself, is that it’s the same old issue I’ve had for decades. I know this issue. I know every stone on the path to where it lives, all the byways and [...]

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Integrity vs Special Pleading (Part II)

Posted in How to live, Philosophy and culture, Transformation and inspiration, tagged , , , , , , , on 3 July, 2010 | 2 Comments »

Quick recap.  In the paper I discussed the other day, integrity is defined as: honouring one’s word, or, more precisely, one’s word, period. There are three other aspects of integrity I want to discuss today.  They are three beauties: one’s word includes one’s word to one’s self how to maintain integrity while acting illegally how [...]

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Integrity vs Special Pleading

Posted in How to live, Philosophy and culture, Transformation and inspiration, tagged , , , , , on 1 July, 2010 | 4 Comments »

Look at the following list.  How many of these things do you do? make promises and commitments you do not keep show up late and/or not prepared for meetings, or don’t show up at all surreptitiously read documents, answer emails, work on other matters while in meetings fail to return telephone calls when promised lie [...]

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Breaking the sound barriers

Posted in How to live, On writing, Transformation and inspiration, Women who've carried the day, tagged , , , , , , , on 13 May, 2010 | 2 Comments »

Sometimes you’ve just got to be amazed at what people are capable of.  Take my friend, Julie, for instance.  Julie has just headed off on a two-month speaking tour of the US and the UK to publicise the book she has written, Breaking the Sound Barriers, and its subject matter: how children who are deaf [...]

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A feeling for question

Posted in How to live, Philosophy and culture, Transformation and inspiration, tagged , , , , , on 7 May, 2010 | 12 Comments »

As books are to literature so questions are to philosophy.  They’re the stock in trade of each.  Seems obvious now, though it took me a while to get it when I first started studying philosophy.  I couldn’t work out what I was actually dealing with.  It wasn’t until I took a clue from one of [...]

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Expressing the unexpressed

Posted in How to live, Philosophy and culture, Transformation and inspiration, tagged , on 26 April, 2010 | 8 Comments »

On my way to a Stitch ‘n Bitch the other day, I was meditating on the distinction I learnt in Landmark Education called “completion,” and not half an hour later found myself sitting next to a woman who vividly illustrated what it is to be “incomplete” and the violence it does to our peace of [...]

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About last night

Posted in How to live, Philosophy and culture, Transformation and inspiration, tagged , on 10 April, 2010 | 6 Comments »

Last night was the final night of the leadership course I’ve been doing with Landmark Education.  It was magical.  Each of us spoke about what we’d accomplished, what we wanted to be acknowledged for, and whom we wanted to acknowledge.  The latter part took hours, as each of us took stock of how people had [...]

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Extraordinary living: There’s an app for that

Posted in How to live, Transformation and inspiration, tagged on 2 April, 2010 | 16 Comments »

Who said Landmark people don’t have a sense of humour?

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Three stories, one night

Posted in How to live, Philosophy and culture, Transformation and inspiration, tagged , , on 18 March, 2010 | 4 Comments »

Last night, as part of my training to lead Introductions to the Landmark Forum, I attended an event called “A Special Evening for the Landmark Forum.”  I’ve been to several of these now and something about last night’s was extra special. Three people shared stories that inspired me. ***** The first was a woman in [...]

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“A nasty little subject”: Quotes from February

Posted in How to live, Literature, Philosophy and culture, Quotes from the month, tagged , , , , , , on 7 March, 2010 | 2 Comments »

Somewhere in The Western Canon, Harold Bloom, the Yale English professor who in the 90s made the decision – probably shrewder than it was brave – to oppose postmodernism and defend the castle instead, says that Shakespeare “invented” the modern human. Moreover, Shakespeare invented the modern human by virtue of one neat trick: the device [...]

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