Tag: Transformation
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The Bearable Lightness of Being
Each of us has a natural lightness of being which is sufficiently buoyant to balance the things which come our way. What can tip our experience into unbearable is our own Thinking about these events. Sometimes consciously, but more often innocently, unconsciously and automatically, we entertain habits of thinking which turn our experience of events…
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Spirituality for Skeptics?
Last week I was visiting Balliol College, Oxford. As I unpacked I discovered that the guest room had a copy of The Origin of the Species, rather than the traditional bible in the bedside drawer. This made me smile. And also reflect. The publication of Darwin’s work and its wide acceptance as a solid explanation of…
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The Transformative Power of Insight
One of my ongoing challenges is being able to answer the question, ‘What do you do?’ with any clarity. For 30 year or so I was a lawyer. Even if person asking had a different concept of what lawyers do from my actual role, they got a sense of it. Now, when I say something…
Christian McNeill 