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The Balancing Act

Who hasn’t heard of the “Global Financial Crisis” and so we are told daily that the economy is slowing down, well is it me or do you also find that our daily lives are speeding up like never before?

Yeap 24 by 7 by 365 – we want it and we want it NOW!!!

We live in such a fast paced place that so many of the important parts of a healthy, balanced living are often ignored, often taking a back seat to work and family commitments.

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Dare to be Different

A significant part of expanding your self through personal growth is being different.

The urge to conform is strong in most people, but if society was made up completely of conformists wouldn’t life be very dull?

To be genuinely different and original is a gift to treasure in ourselves and others.

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You and Waste

In today’s world we are all constantly being reminded about waste and how it affects our climate and environment.

Often the message is re-use, re-cycle consider our environment.

In my studies of personal growth and self improvement it occurred to me what about our internal environment, that valuable piece of real estate between our ears, our thinking.

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The Middle Way

Today’s thoughts in our journey of personal growth, self improvement and general betterment comes from a recent reading I discovered and I want to share with you.

“Compassion and inner peace are precious things, easily lost through intoxication.”

This advice was given by the Buddha to his followers over 2500 years ago. I believe this has a resonance for us today.

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Forms of patience

Patience is a virtue have it if you can,
it’s always/never in a woman,
and never/always in a man.
[Adjust gender as appropriate]

During my readings for my personal growth I have discovered that there are different forms of patience.

At one end of the scale, patience can take the form of the passive act of waiting without agitation or complaint.
However patience can also be linked to action – the painstaking completion of a laborious task or the relentless pursuit of a goal.

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Two views of enlightenment.

Often when I am listening to or reading personal growth material I have to remind myself of the different views of enlightenment.

It is said that Western thinkers traditionally mean by enlightenment is the triumph of the reason [over, for example, self gratification, seeing, tradition or prejudice], whereas Eastern sages habitually see the term to mean the souls triumph over reason, as in the Buddha’s moment of enlightenment under the Bodhi tree.

The one that places emphasis on understanding, the other on the acceptance.

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Taking Responsibility

Have you heard this story before?

This is a story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody.

There was an important job to be done, and Everybody was sure Somebody would do it.

Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it.

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