Looking the other way
Avoidance or inquiry,the choice is ours;curiosity or fear,we decide;protection or compassion,the way of our heart;open or closed,choose courage.
Choice
Reflections on the pause before saying yes
Can you remember the last time you said ‘yes’? Not the everyday sort of yes, but the big and beautiful yes that changed the course of your work and life? At the beginning of The Creatives Workshop two years ago, I wrote this poem… PAUSE TO SAY YES The pause before we say yes is … Read more
How might we choose to live?
Every day we have a choice: how might we live this day? Yet often, we forget to ask ourselves because we are either in a hurry or a rut. Or we don’t realise that the choice is ours to make, and we are living someone else’s life, failing to honour the potential that is uniquely … Read more
Choosing to live in the flow
Calm and turbulence. We think of them as entirely different states. But they aren’t. This is life if we are living. This is flow if we are moving. This is growth and emergence and wonder unless we are dying. We have a choice. If we want it to be safe, we will keep churning out … Read more
What we see is our choice
Then the delight, when your courage kindled,And out you stepped onto new ground,Your eyes young again with energy and dream,A path of plenitude opening up before you. As my friend, Amos Doornbos often remarks: the choice is up to us. ~ This is the fourth verse of John O’Donohue’s blessing: For a New Beginning.