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- St. Patrick's Blessing - by Submitted on Mar 16, 2009 from Tony CucksonSt. Patrick and I go back a long way. It was as a choirboy that I sang in Armagh Cathedral, which he called “my sweet hill.” This sweet hill has deep historical roots and is where the ancient High King of Ireland, Brian Boru, is buried in the churchyard. It is easy enough to learn about the ...
Views: 1475 - Silly Love Songs: I Wanna Hold Your Hand - by Submitted on Feb 13, 2009 from Tony CucksonSome people say They’ve had enough of Silly love songs. - Paul McCartney, Just Another Silly Love Song Let this Irish storyteller suggest a time when people could really say they’ve had enough of ‘silly love songs.’ It’s when they are dead. Before such time ...
Views: 1254 - A Magical Place Apart - by Submitted on Jan 25, 2009 from Tony Cuckson“Beyond the pale” is an Irish expression. When people say that someone has gone ‘beyond the pale” they are not referring to the state of that person’s complexion. The Pale refers to a place. Metaphorically speaking, it is a place that the culture does not approve of or sanction in some ...
Views: 1074 - The Call to Be Authentic: Finding Your Pathway to Bliss - by Submitted on Jan 13, 2009 from Tony CucksonUnfortunately those who choose to refuse the call don’t have a life. -Joseph Campbell, Pathways to Bliss The author goes on to say: Either they do, or in trying to lead a more mundane life, they exist as non-entities, what T.S. Eliot called, “Hollow men.” Campbell is quoting about the hollow ...
Views: 1250 - Creative Intelligence: The Solution to Limited Thinking - by Submitted on Jan 02, 2009 from Tony CucksonAs a storyteller interested in the creative process I was interested in an article I read on the web about the idea of becoming linear thinker rather than a circular thinker. The writer was inviting us out of a habit of circular thinking into a more forward-looking way of living life. In ...
Views: 2095 - Purpose, Passion & Prosperity: Three Ways to a Wonderful Life - by Submitted on Nov 18, 2008 from Tony CucksonPurpose, Passion and Prosperity: The holy trinity of a wonderful life includes the dynamics of purpose, passion and prosperity. The third is built on the ground of the first two. Let’s look at each in turn. Purpose There is a great phrase in the Bible that says, “Where your heart is, there ...
Views: 2714 - Burning Your Boats: Sacred Wisdom In Irish Mythology - by Submitted on Nov 03, 2008 from Tony CucksonSacred story can speak to us of timeless lessons (many of them painfully relevant to us in our present age) and offer us different ways of looking at our innermost being. - Frank MacEowen, The Celtic Way of Seeing The Anamcara invites you into the experience of sacred story. This is story ...
Views: 2333 - In Know the Way to Get You Deeply Inspired (1) - by Submitted on Oct 24, 2008 from Tony CucksonI know the way you can get When you have not had a drink Of Love. Your face hardens. Your sweet muscles cramp. Children become concerned. From I Heard God Laughing: Renderings of Hafiz by David Ladinsky, Henry S. Mindlin, H. Wilberforce Clarke The Anam cara knows the way you can get when you ...
Views: 1048 - Four Ways to Weather Any Kind of Crisis - by Submitted on Oct 15, 2008 from Tony CucksonCurrently there is being experienced throughout the world the collapse of institutions that have served to allow us to live a particular way. This has tended to create a ‘have’ and ‘have not’ circumstance. The symbol of the crisis in the I Ching is also the symbol for ...
Views: 1041 - Mo Anamcara - My Soulmate - by Submitted on Oct 03, 2008 from Tony CucksonIn Celtic spirituality you are invited on a journey into love. The one who invites you on your journey is mo anamcara, which is the Irish for ‘my soul friend.’ The great matron saint of Ireland, St. Brigid, said that anyone without a mo anamcara was like a body without a head. Here are some ...
Views: 1189 - Four Ways To Feel Blessed Come Rain Or Shine - by Submitted on Oct 03, 2008 from Tony Cuckson“May the soft rain fall upon your fields.” From ‘May the Roads Rise Up’, Old Irish Blessing Here is a line from one of the best known of Irish Blessings. Such blessings tend to begin with an invitation with the word ‘May.’ This does not demand. It invites. It is respectful and an invitation ...
Views: 967 - Loving The Work You Do - by Submitted on Oct 03, 2008 from Tony Cuckson"Let the beauty we love be what we do." Rumi We all do it at various stages of life. We work. We spend much of our life in an activity we call work. This is often simply a means to an end. It is a function we perform in order to have certain things that we want. Many of us identify with our ...
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