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Category Archives: Thoughts

These are just my observational ‘Thought” as they arise and also a reflection of my mind state.

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Worldly Growth and the Last Push into Adulthood

22 Thursday Sep 2022

Posted by Wisdom Child in Economics, Phychology, Politics, Thoughts

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Children, Geopolitics, Growth, Parenting, Politics, Putin, Russia, trump, world

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I have five children and have watched them develop by platforming their own key stages with distinctive signposting: They’ve grown …

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Pain of Knowledge v Blissful Ignorance?

21 Wednesday Sep 2022

Posted by Wisdom Child in Economics, Politics, Thoughts

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Knowledge, Knowning, Politics

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Is it best to free your mind with knowledge or to live in blissful ignorance? As a throw away comment …

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Tick, Tick to Nirvana

13 Friday May 2016

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Buddhism, Impermanence, Nirvana, Spiritual, Time

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We experience just the moment as this is the universal revelation and the natural capacity of our brain. What if …

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Patience – The Island is in reach…

27 Wednesday Apr 2016

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Buddhism

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When I was young I wanted to run from the tyranny and horrors of life and live on an actual …

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The Open Mind is a wonderful thing to lose

29 Sunday Nov 2015

Posted by Wisdom Child in Faith, Families, Happenings, Insights, Thoughts

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Religion, Spiritual, Wisdom Child

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No more is the opportunity so great to encase the mind so completely in the dehumanizing constraints of religious dogma …

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Being a Creature of Faith and Belief

22 Friday Aug 2014

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Belief, Buddhism, Faith, Families, Social Convention

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I am a man of faith but not in the commonly accepted sense! When I think about the word faith, …

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Wisdom Child: Discovering Palestine Today

15 Friday Aug 2014

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Buddhism, Families, Gaza, Israel, Palestine, Wisdom Child

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Introducing Wisdom Child: Settle down be still and listen, listen carefully to this story heard by a young girl called …

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Gaza – A Human Response

10 Sunday Aug 2014

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Buddhism, Families, Gaza

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It’s far easier to pronounce on breaking world events when there’s some first-hand connection with those events. On face value …

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Fight fire with fire or Fight guns with intelligence?

22 Saturday Dec 2012

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Families, Gandhi, Guns, NRA, Parenting, Politics, Sandy Hook, Shakespeare

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“Be stirring as the time; be fire with fire; threaten the threatener and outface the brow of bragging horror” – …

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