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Kissing Lepers
When you get a minute – today…now preferably – I want you to do me a favour. I want you to go out, into the street, into the town, the city or the fields and find yourself a leper. Introduce yourself first, it is only proper, but as soon as the formalities are over and the hands of courtesy have been shaken I want you to hold that lovely leper in a warm embrace and kiss him on the lips. Yes, you heard me right! Kiss that leper (I can feel a game show coming on) fully on the lips. If they are cracked and bleeding, if his flesh is ravaged and torn, and dismembered body parts litter his path and if the cold shiver of repulsion marks your spine as a rabbit run, good. Good, good, good. The more terror the better. It means that you have found the right leper. Kiss the leper. Hug the leper.
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Resevoirs of Pain
The pain of countless dark episodes fills my chest, the world around me forms a miasmatic cloud, feelings threaten to implode or burst out in violence and… I thank God for the abundance of energy! I filter it through my quill and bleed nectar onto the page...
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Everything that happens to me is Great
An acquaintance read my article, ‘Everything That Happens to Me is Good’ and gave me one of those patronising smiles. He asked, ‘What if your house burned down? Would that be good?’ ‘Everything includes everything,’ I replied. ‘It is all inclusive.It excludes nothing. If it did then it would not be (by its very nature) everything.’ He didn’t understand....
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Buccaneering Rabbits
Depression is a funny old thing, when you are in it you feel as though you are never going to escape, and when you finally do get out you feel as though you could never be depressed again. But in the back of your mind you harbour that small quiet dread; will it return again and drag my bones into that dark abyss?
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The Universe Whispers
I have been a man of inquiry all my life. Ever since I was a child in the school playground I have always believed in the possibility of the impossible. I have always been excited by life’s great potential (whilst at the same time being extremely frightened of life’s great potential). I was the kid who wanted to climb the highest trees, venture to the farthest points and scrimmage with the biggest risks. Whilst other boys were happy to kick a football around the school playing field, I wanted to score the winning goal for Manchester United in the FA cup....
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A man once spent an hour bragging to me of his fighting prowess, how he held an eighth dan in karate, a sixth dan in Ju-jitsu and a fourth dan in some other exotic style of martial art that I had never heard of. He had the trophies on every shelf, lapels lined with worthy medals, and belts (of the black variety), well, he had them hanging from every pair of gi pants he owned.....
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Full Stop.
The Milky Way is a full stop. It’s true. The Milky Way, our galaxy, the place that our planet Earth calls home, is but the size of a full stop (in comparison to the known universe) in a book, at a library with shelves as high as five ceilings and as long as a football pitch. Now that excites me. It really excites me....
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I always talk about the fact that the universe is a benevolent force that is willing us to reap the abundance that is on offer. And I am always harping on about how nature demonstrates this in Technicolor, with every land-crawling and sky-flying creature and with every plant and tree. Examples of abundance are all around us if only we will look. I am also aware that I might come across at times as a little evangelical in my telling. You will have to forgive this. It is simply because I am so excited...
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The stairway to Saturn
I read a great article the other day and I thought I might share the essence of it with you. It was talking about success, the nature of success and what success actually is (because it appears to be different things to different people). ..
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The hand of experience
I was asked the other day if spiritual growth was possible without concurrent intellectual expansion. In other words can you grow spiritually if you are not growing intellectually? I personally love to study, I find it stimulating and inspiring to read about other people that have walked the path...
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