On Connectedness
Can you think of a time when you had (or were) just what somebody else needed? Perhaps you really ‘got’ what they were saying, and you...
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alittlesanctuary
- Jul 1, 2022
- 5 min
The information is held in the relational system
The brightest, most vivid experience of being a part of a team is the way that Lorinda and I are partnered in raising our children. In...
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alittlesanctuary
- Jun 17, 2022
- 6 min
Four Existential Principles
It is said that when you’re young you have time and you have energy but you have no money. When you’re middle aged you still have...
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alittlesanctuary
- May 12, 2022
- 4 min
Fear of Flying
Shared under a Creative Commons license from Calle Macarone on Unsplash I love flying. I love flying because I love travel – I want to...
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alittlesanctuary
- Nov 29, 2021
- 3 min
Seek out your teachers, seek out learning
Ever since I put out the blog ‘On holograms and seeing through time’ I’ve been trying to work out what I called a ‘principle of...
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alittlesanctuary
- Oct 5, 2021
- 8 min
To rise and to give rise
Bob Dylan once sang that: ‘He not busy being born is busy dying’. When I first heard this lyric – in university days in London – I...
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alittlesanctuary
- Aug 30, 2021
- 5 min
(A kind of) Eternal Youth
From around 16 to 19 years I old I played in a band. I was lead singer and wrote about half the songs. We were called Serotonin and we...
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alittlesanctuary
- Aug 6, 2021
- 8 min
On holograms and seeing through time
In the summer of 2004, I visited a friend in Michigan. It was my first time in the United States and I was thrilled to be there, and was...
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alittlesanctuary
- Sep 20, 2020
- 6 min
Winter, Sleep and Memory
Quite a few summers ago now, before the children came along, Lorinda and I headed down to London for a couple of nights. We had tickets...
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alittlesanctuary
- Sep 13, 2020
- 7 min
A psychological story
Currier, N. and Merritt Ives, J. (1892). The Tree of Life Now that we’re well into September, there’s a subtle chill in the air – autumn...
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alittlesanctuary
- Sep 5, 2020
- 6 min
A Lightness of Being
It’s in the little things, of course. The feeling for me is of a lightness of being, brushing my five year-old daughter’s hair as she...
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alittlesanctuary
- Aug 29, 2020
- 4 min
That sinking feeling
We all know what it feels like: when the bubble bursts and life gets really heavy. Arms and legs feel heavy, it takes energy to move, and...
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alittlesanctuary
- Aug 25, 2020
- 7 min
The Moon in the Water
On a relatively rare day of uninterrupted sunshine during these closing stages of the summer, I took a walk through and out of the...
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alittlesanctuary
- Aug 18, 2020
- 10 min
On Time Travel
During my teens and twenties on the family farm I occasionally got enlisted into potato grading. For those not accustomed to the delights...
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alittlesanctuary
- Aug 11, 2020
- 5 min
Nobody gets left behind
Back in 2011, when I’d first started my counselling training, our group were given instructions for a projection exercise using buttons....
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alittlesanctuary
- Aug 4, 2020
- 8 min
On the emptiness of earthworms and Stradivarius violins
There is a thought experiment in Buddhism known as the parable of the chariot. It goes something like this: What is the essence of a...
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alittlesanctuary
- Jul 25, 2020
- 8 min
The Fabric of Memory
One of the most elemental proofs of our aliveness is breath. Breath is a temporal rhythm that runs throughout our entire lifespan as an...
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alittlesanctuary
- May 28, 2020
- 5 min
A Theory of Consciousness: As inspired by Plato and my bus ride into work
We brush our teeth twice a day. We take a shower. We drive or we take a bus to our place of work. After dinner we do the washing up. How...
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alittlesanctuary
- May 24, 2020
- 3 min
Our little windows into the world
The newspaper is like a weather report. Since the lockdown I’ve found the time to read one, occasionally, in the sunshine, as Lorinda...
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alittlesanctuary
- May 18, 2020
- 5 min
The Foal
There. Can you see us? Two young men sat on the dry roots, beneath an ash tree. It is getting late, and the sky is full of stars – a cool...
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