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- Recognising our Blessings - by Submitted on Jan 09, 2013 from Isabelle GravensteinThe Festive Season is over. Most of us in the wealthier nations have spent much energy and finances celebrating this time of the year in opulence and hopefully in joy as well. During a chat I was having with a close friend of mine on Christmas day, she told me how sad it was that so many ...
Views: 561(1 vote) - And we call ourselves Civilised! - by Submitted on Jun 16, 2013 from Isabelle GravensteinHuman beings have got the most amazing capacity to fool themselves, whilst appearing to exercise great intelligence and achievements. It is none more obvious then when we call ourselves civilised. Firstly, what benchmark do we use to know that we are civilised and that that bunch of people over ...
Views: 1465 - Dying will never be the end of ‘you’. - by Submitted on Aug 13, 2013 from Isabelle GravensteinDeath. Dying. Dead. How most of us dread these small words. Packed with so much power to induce endless fears in the deepest parts of our hearts. We do not even dare to linger on their meaning. We want to throw them far away from us, as far as possible, pretending they do not exist, or at the ...
Views: 427 - Guarding our thoughts! - by Submitted on Nov 13, 2013 from Isabelle GravensteinWe cannot help but think every single moment of our waking life. Unless we are seasoned meditators, wilfully trying not to think is practically impossible. So now we have these thousands of thoughts coming in and out of our awareness. Most of them seem to just ‘happen’, whilst others are more ...
Views: 451 - Living from the Heart - by Submitted on Dec 04, 2012 from Isabelle GravensteinLiving from the heart must be the ultimate in ideal living. A living guided by an intimate knowledge of Self, of one’s essence, one’s origins and one’s connection to others and to the All. We are not used to living from the heart though. It is way too scary. The heart invites us gently to let ...
Views: 523 - Rejoicing madly! - by Submitted on Sep 14, 2013 from Isabelle GravensteinWhat happens after death is so unspeakably glorious that our imagination and our feelings do not suffice to form even an approximate conception of it. The dissolution of our time-bound form in eternity brings no loss of meaning. Carl Jung 1875 – 1961 Carl Jung is by far not the only one who ...
Views: 529 - Very Dear Brian - by Submitted on Jun 09, 2013 from Isabelle GravensteinWhen someone is about to die, through no conscious choice of theirs, how can we comfort them, whilst we ourselves are powerless to stop the wheels of death from performing their implacable destruction? This dear soul Brian is facing execution in the USA in a few weeks. This is my heart speaking ...
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