Empathy is the ability to appreciate life from another being’s point of view, especially as regards their pleasure and pain, wishes and aversions. It can
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Feeling important
It makes me laugh, the number of things we do in order to feel important. We are particularly sensitive to perceived personal slights. We don’t
An analysis of anger
We are sometimes angry beings, but we often deny it. It’s something to do with pride. It takes a lot of courage to fold inwards,
Do too much, do too little
Today I wanted to write about the amount of activity we undertake in response to events. These thoughts were prompted by watching several things: the
When you fight, you are always fighting yourself
It isn’t very fashionable, to propose that, whenever we are fighting, we are just fighting ourselves. In an age that likes to glorify (rightly I
Do you want to be right or happy?
It isn’t an easy dilemma. But it’s worth thinking about. Perhaps it’s summed up in the following poem: WHICH ONE Imagine there are two possible
Remindful UK 