I was listening to an old sober booze-hound friend the other night sharing about his meditation journey. “Find your quiet place,” said he, “then you’ll be able to walk gently through the storm.” So what might this quiet place look like? The answer to that is it can take many forms. I know people who […]
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A couple of years ago I learned of the passing of an Iranian friend. He was one of the multitude of people who got taken out of the game by the first wave of Covid that swept through the world. I first encountered Ali while he was visiting his refugee family here in Australia. Any
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Said he to me, with a rich man’s glee, “there are winners and there are losers! What do you want to be?” Forget your childish dreams about the rights of man and human dignity, and all that crazy loser stuff, about solidarity. Just jump on board the winners’ train—I tell you it’s no lie. All
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“The name of God is mercy,” so says the current Pope, who is seriously big on the mercy thing. Just in case you are wondering, I am a self-confessed, practicing Catholic. Although, given my various misfit mystic musings on this blog and elsewhere, there would be more than a few among my Catholic brethren who
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