Author Archive for Peter

Happiness is Innate

Peter February 20, 2017 Post Comment Uncategorised

Clowns to the left of me, Jokers to the right? I’ve just seen an article headlined thus:- Happiness is a realistic goal, but you have to plan for it I have to admit right at the outset, that here is a statement that is one of the flying ...

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We Can’t Do It All Ourselves

Peter February 6, 2017 Post Comment Uncategorised

Ἰατρέ, θεράπευσον σεαυτόν It may look like Greek to you, yet the phrase “Physician heal thyself” – from St Luke’s gospel, alludes to the readiness and ability of physicians to heal sickness in others while sometimes not being able or willing to heal themselves. This suggests something of ...

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Juiciness

Peter February 5, 2017 Post Comment Uncategorised

There are many ways of getting the juice from an orange. Rather like there are many ways of getting the juice out of life in general or out of everyday of our lives in particular. In fact, although they may not be the only fruit, oranges and their ...

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The Spirit of Romance

Peter February 4, 2017 Post Comment Uncategorised

Flashback One day I was working with my coach on examining various areas of my life, my perspectives, my “worldview” if you like, when I was overtaken by a short-lived moment of absent-mindedness. And in the suspended silence of that nanosecond of cosmic time my aural perception ...

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Keeping an Inner Watch

Peter January 30, 2017 Post Comment Uncategorised

Keep watch over me, oh my Soul. As the night gathers around my Self, in that moonless, Stygian gloom, keep watch over me. When I feel misunderstood and abandoned by friends and loved ones, and the warmth of my Fire no longer gives me comfort or has any ...

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A Passion for Pi and for Pie

Peter January 14, 2017 Post Comment Uncategorised

Pi “Maths Tutors Needed – Want to earn money sharing your passion for Maths?” says the banner ad from time to time on my FB page. Yes, to be fair I’d love to. I’d love to have some extra dosh to procure some more abaci, or supplement another ...

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The Space Walk

Peter November 10, 2016 Post Comment Uncategorised

On Saturday 8th October I joined my good friend Liz Scott on one of her Dartmoor walks. These walks are centred around locating certain crosses, of which there are many dotted in and around the Moor – and she takes along her sound recording equipment ...

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We don’t need no Thought Control

Peter October 19, 2016 Post Comment Uncategorised

Part of the narrative of my book Navigating The Ship of You explores the power of thought and the nature of how we personalise that power into what then becomes our thinking. In this extract I outline the role the RAS (Reticular Activating System) can play with our thought ...

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A few things to consider before writing the list of “50 Things to do before I die”

Peter September 29, 2016 Post Comment Uncategorised

The Unknown Journey In the book “Navigating The Ship of You” I explore the unknown-ness of Life and how, through navigating well, we can step into the unknown and come back having made it known.   Every day contains a vast amount of “unknown” and in order to ...

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Blocks

Peter April 22, 2016 Post Comment Uncategorised

Perspectives   There are perspectives for literally everything we encounter in life – and the thing about perspectives and “easy” or “difficult” is this:   We often only have to shift our perspective slightly in order to find out that how we do something or how we feel about ...

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