...after following the modern wisdom of establishing a career, seeking a certain lifestyle and more and more money to fund it...

Is there something to learn from nature's wisdom herself? Do we always have to dominate her, manipulate and coerce her to bow to our wishes?

As with potted plants, our roots become inflexible, rigid, and before long we find ourselves wilting.

A freshly picked lime squeezed gently coats itself and my hands in it's oily essence, the scent taken deeply within my lungs clears and ...

It takes care and attention to grow an indoor garden and I found it at times, arduous. Might have reflected my approach to relationships...

If there is one lesson that I have learned over the decades of my life, it is to "be like nature".

When we enter the bushland or parklands we immediately feel calm and at peace with the world.

When we are lulled into that sense of security that a job provides us, we are fooling ourselves into believing that we will always have ...

Day 309/366 days Towards Self-Mastery. "You must be how you want to be, but you must do what needs to be done." This pearl of wisdom I...

Day 309/366 days Towards Self-Mastery. Looking outside of myself for how I should do my life penetrated every corner of my being. In...

Day 308/366 days Towards Self-Mastery. A secret place. A place for secret thoughts and unravelling life's mysteries. Do you have such a...

Day 307/366 days Towards Self-Mastery. Words. They capture us and sometimes torture us. Reflecting this morning on "working" in the...

Day 306/366 days Towards Self-Mastery. Making sense of my life has taken many forms. Right now what is working well is to think of my my...

Day 305/366 days Towards Self-Mastery. Care of the soul. For me it began with tuning into what feels good. And for me this was an...

Day 304/366 days Towards Self-Mastery. The switch to living simply amplified my move towards self-mastery. It connected me back to the...

Day 303/366 days Towards Self-Mastery. For a very long time I distance myself from my family and everything they stood for. It was a...

Day 302/366 days Towards Self-Mastery. It's not a frivolous thing to do little tricks to shift your mindset out of poverty mode into...

Day 301/366 days Towards Self-Mastery. Each to their own. Tithing is something that was required of all good Catholics back in the day....

Day 300/366 days Towards Self-Mastery. I'm not there yet! "Financial serenity starts when we accept as our truth that money is a state of...

Day 299/366 days Towards Self-Mastery. It's that time of the year when I begin to think about Christmas gifts for family and close...