“Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It’s a way of entering into the quiet that’s already there—buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day.”
~ Deepak Chopra
My favourite Senate candidate
Meet my darling wife Molly, who I am proud to announce is standing as a Senate candidate for the Health Australia Party.
See the party website here or their Facebook page here. You could also follow Molly on her journey at her personal website here which has links to her Facebook, Twitter and Instagram accounts.
Here is Molly’s electoral “pitch”: Continue reading “My favourite Senate candidate”
Election time
“We should all welcome the disappearance of a ministry which has neither achievement in the past, policy in the present, nor prospects in the future, to justify its existence.”
Chris Watson, first Australian Labor leader 1905
Writers are
“Those who write are writers. Those who wait are waiters.”
A Lee Martinez
Dark Emu: a book review
Dark Emu has shaken me, it has shaken the foundations of my very existence, torn away layers of conditioning that has been provided for me over the years. It is that serious a book. As I have now discovered it is not the first to lay out the notion of a more developed people inhabiting this country than was the view of the original English settlers. But it is probably the manner in which this book has been written that sets it apart. Continue reading “Dark Emu: a book review”
Belly Bellows
Did you know there are two ways of breathing? No, I didn’t either until I was pulled up by a fellow actor in rehearsals for an amateur production I was in some many moons ago at Chester St theatre. Continue reading “Belly Bellows”
Beyond?
You know you are getting old when you have the following happen to you. We were sitting in the car at traffic lights when my wife innocently asked me “How do you feel about dying?”. I thought about it as we travelled through the intersection and then blurted out “I’m quite looking forward to it really”, a response that nearly caused my wife to run off the road. Continue reading “Beyond?”
Waking up is
“Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be“
Alan Watts
Beliefs and other shortcuts
Did you remember to take a breath in just a second or so ago? Or perhaps exhale the previous breath? Did you remember to make your heart take another beat or to push some more blood around your body? Or recirculate the blood that was coming back in to your heart? No you didn’t did you? Well, yes you probably did but not consciously. Continue reading “Beliefs and other shortcuts”
