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Blessed by His Holiness the Dalai Lama 30 Jun 2013 | 06:14 am
On Tuesday 18 June, I shook hands and looked into the eyes of the man who seems to be the happiest man in the world—His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet. More than meeting him, at ...
You are the Big Bang, if it weren’t for your “Discontinuous Mind” 22 Jun 2013 | 04:08 am
It is a common misinterpretation of the Theory of Evolution to think that there is a clear line between species—this is what Richard Dawkins calls “The Tyranny of the Discontinuous Mind.” If we are co...
Global wealth pyramid – Credit Suisse 14 Jun 2013 | 03:00 am
If your total wealth is over 1 million dollars you are in the top 0.5% of the global wealth pyramid. If you have between 100k and 1m, you are in the top 7.5%. If you have somewhere between 10k and 100...
One Drum: A film about a road trip from New York City to Rio De Janeiro 7 Jun 2013 | 08:45 am
On 7th day of the 7th month, 2007, I met a person who would inspire a change in my life. He lit a spark of creativity inside me, and pointed to the possibilities that exist if you just fucking go. Soo...
“What if God doesn’t DO things? What if God is IN things?” 29 May 2013 | 09:22 am
In his TED Talk, the Canon Pastor of Exeter Cathedral in the UK, Tom Honey, explained some of the dilemmas involved in challenging images and ideas attached to the traditional notion of God within his...
A drop in the ocean 19 May 2013 | 09:58 am
“My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?” ― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas On the journey from Sydney to Paris I watched Cloud Atla...
Honouring Outrage: Celebrating Courage in Paris 6 May 2013 | 03:43 pm
On 2 May 2013, in Paris, my colleagues and I represented the Sydney Peace Foundation at the Australian Ambassador’s Residence in Paris, where we awarded a posthumous Gold Medal for Human Rights to Sté...
Women and Peace in the Middle East 23 Apr 2013 | 07:35 pm
I’ve been a bit slack with my blogging the last few years, which is a shame given the great work that I’m involved in with the Sydney Peace Foundation, and the research I’m doing at the Centre for Pea...
In the “flow” in Cambodia 2 Apr 2013 | 03:37 pm
“If you’re aiming for a goal that isn’t your destiny, you will always be swimming against the current… Find out what your destiny is and the river will carry you.”—Men Who Stare At Goats. Nicola’s com...
The Ecstasy of “Flow” 28 Mar 2013 | 02:35 am
The feeling of flow is that feeling you get when you are at your ultimate and you feel your body almost disappear in a spontaneous yet automatic type fashion. For example, a sportsperson running or hi...
