Slow down

With all the major issues surrounding us today, the world is trying to teach us two words – ‘Slow Down’

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Work-Life Balance?

Do you love what you do? Too often we separate our work and our life, as highlighted by the ironic modern expression ‘Work-Life Balance’. Many people spend nearly half their awake adult life working. Our work is our life. Our life is our work. True living is when you change your perspective on your work …

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Super humans

I know when we will have evolved to super humans… it’ll be the day everyone remains in their seats until the airplane doors are open.

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Energy vampires

Don’t hang out with energy vampires.

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Open to everything

Practise being open to everything and attached to nothing.

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To strive

Those who continually strive, never arrive.

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Trying to be better

Life is not about trying to be better than others. It about trying to be better than you used to be.

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Emotions

Emotions are our internal compass for telling us how far off true north we are.

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Follow the herd

If you follow the herd, you’ll always end up stepping in poo.

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Today…

Today, look for as many opportunities to let people in front of you.

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Feeling ill

When we are feeling ill, we promise ourselves we’ll never take feeling healthy for granted ever again. Once recovered, and back in the full swing of life we easily forget our promise. Then a little reminder comes by…

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Spiritual teacher

We can view any challenge we face as a spiritual teacher. Only then do we realise that every experience we have is simply helping us to become a better student of life.

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Teacher? Parent? Child?

Who is the teacher – the parent or the child? Children show up to help us remember how magical the world is,  by letting us see everything for the first time again.

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99%…

Ninety-nine percent of the thoughts we have are about the past or the future. Only one percent of the time are we living in the moment, which is all we have.

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60,000 thoughts a day

We have 60,000 thoughts a day. Ninety-five percent of them are the same thoughts we had yesterday.

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War and hatred

A belief we own, live by and defend is simply just a habitual thought we think over and over and over. Understand that and we rid the world of hatred and war.

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Grow your own

Trying growing your own tomatoes and you’ll never throw food in the bin again.

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Problems?

Our perceived problems are not really the problem. Our only problem is our perception.

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Miracles around us

We marvel at the latest technology, such as a robot that can make a cup of tea, but we’ve forgotten to marvel at the miracle of us. Yesterday, I saw a human being get on a two-wheeled contraption and pedal off down the road. Now that’s amazing!

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Enlightened people

Enlightened people appreciate the things that everyone else take for granted.

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