“Everything is practice” said Pelé one of the greatest footballers of all time. Life is a practice. Parenting is a practice. Even loving is a practice. Everything is practice, it truly is. When we practice something, we are taking action to get better at it. We do something over and over again to master it while continuously learning and adjusting course along the way. Practice doesn’t … [Read more...]
Stuck Behind The Bars.
I’ve just read Maybe you should talk to someone by the psychotherapist and New York Times bestselling author, Lori Gottlieb. It’s a humorous and thought-provoking book that takes us behind the scenes of Lori’s world as a therapist. I highly recommend it! At one point in the book, Lori’s own therapist Wendell, shares a famous story about the prisoner shaking the bars of a prison cell. … [Read more...]
Remember Ubuntu
Legend has it that an anthropologist visiting a village in Africa, proposed a game to a group of small children. He placed a basket of sweets under a tree and asked the children to stand a few hundred feet away. “Whoever reaches the basket first gets all the sweets,” he shouted “Ready, set, go!” Do you know what these children did? They held each other’s hands, ran towards the basket together … [Read more...]
The Space Between.
In Zen, Ensō is a circle drawn in one or two uninhibited brushstrokes. It expresses the reality that everything that has a beginning also has its end. Some endings, such as the ending of a season occur gradually without us really noticing. Other endings, such as the loss of a job, are abrupt and traumatic and turn our life upside down in an instant. Yet other endings, such as the end of a … [Read more...]