Cells Unite
I’m just one cell, reporting in from the field. Things are quiet for the moment, but the rumblings of animosity between various factions seems...
Tag: awareness
What Survives?
Mindfulness must be a wonderful quality to be able to call upon at will. In my experience, it seems that being aware of my...
Opportunities and Obligations.
It occurred to me this week that the distinction between “opportunity” and “obligation” is largely one of perspective. I awake each morning, and sometimes...
Pushing through the Sidewalk.
It’s interesting how exceptional capacities sometimes blossom out of exceptional difficulties. Perhaps such difficulties are hidden in each of us—unsuspected by others as we...
Inside the Bystander Self.
“As bystanders, we start from a position of not-knowing and never really advance beyond it. Situated at a distance from what needs to be...
Departing the Familiar
Sitting in a railway carriage as it pulls out from Charing Cross station (or Amsterdam, Buenos Aires, Montreal) we depart the city and...