Lessons for living: Emergence

Lessons for living: Emergence

Creativity is a way of being in which life feels new and fresh in each moment. It is marked by exploration and experimentation. This creative way of being is one in which there is deep sense of emergence and presence. Emergence is the experience of fresh perception,...
Lessons for living: Creativity

Lessons for living: Creativity

There was once a boy who banged a drum all day. No matter what anyone else said, he wouldn’t stop. Various people were called in by neighbours and asked to do something about the child. One by one, townsfolk came to warn the boy about his eardrums or that drums were...
Lessons for living: Inspiration

Lessons for living: Inspiration

Inspiration is the experience of being stimulated to do something, usually something creative. The experience of inspiration often involves a sudden, brilliant or timely idea. It is an act of ‘drawing in’, coming from inspirare, meaning to ‘breathe in’. When we say...
Lessons for living: Vision and dreams

Lessons for living: Vision and dreams

“If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favourable” – Seneca Vision is the ability to think about or plan the future with imagination and wisdom. Visions come as ideas or images. The ability to en-vision is the ability to see possibilities in...
Lessons for living: Trust

Lessons for living: Trust

Trust is a belief in the reliability, strength or ability of someone or something. We can trust in a principle like truth. We can find trust in a cause, an idea, a community or life itself. Hope is a type of trust because we are depending on, and putting our...