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The dark side of religion

Religious people and institutions are not exempt from being corrupted by the power of evil. It matters not what their belief system is whether it is Christianity, Islam, Judaism, New Age or whatever the brand and flavour.

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I welcome everything that comes to me today

Why letting go is the only way forward when you are confronted with circumstances beyond your control.

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Go to the limit of your longing

Sometimes you have to keep moving forward in spite of what is happening. Love this poem, “Go to the limits of your longing” by Rainer Maria Rilke that captures this so beautifully. Go to the limits of your longing A poem by Rainer Maria Rilke Translation by Joanna Macy and Anita Barrows God speaks to […]

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Faith Journey Wisdom & Learning

How to survive when you are in a hard place 

How do you survive when you are caught between a rock and a hard place? When there seems like there is no light at the end of the tunnel or options to choose? How do you keep on moving when the situation stretches from days to weeks and then months? When it seems like the only […]

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How can you act decisively when you don’t know it all?

How does one find out the “will of God”? And is there even such a thing?

Consciously or unconsciously we may believe that there is a perfect will of God (or fate) that has been predetermined for each person since his or her birth and our role in life is to discover and fulfil that destiny.

So how does our free-will and decision-making impact our future? Do we have an opportunity to create and chose our future or is it predetermined?

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Can you overcome death and live forever?

Is death the end? We spend our lives trying hard to avoid the one thing that will eventually overtake all of us. How we see death will determine how we use the present moment. Is there meaning in suffering? The pain that surrounds human existence does not discriminate What have I done to deserve this? […]

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A journey of a thousand miles

“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” Over the last four months we have made an incredible journey from Doha to Kuala Lumpur and then to Canberra. That’s about 12,000km from one corner of the world to another. We are happy to share that we are settling into life down under […]