Wise Wednesdays

We started the sanctuary session last week with one of the most famous verses in history. And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought, And enterprises of great pith and moment With this regard their currents turn awry And lose the name of action. These are the last five lines from Hamlet’s exploration: To be, or not to be? After deciding that it was better to live and face his troubles, he realised that what gets in the way of action is overthinking, over-analysis and doubt,  rooted in the fear of the unknown. Whatever I’ve studied by way of philosophy, spirituality, psychology - the message always returns: there’s what we know and then there’s what we start thinking about what we know. So if you’re feeling stuck anywhere right now, I guarantee you that you know exactly what is needed (which may be to allow things to unfold and receive more information before taking action). And I am pretty certain there’s a part of you that’s resi...

 It wasn’t enough to know about the devastating floods, droughts, and landslides in the Pokhara region of Nepal—we also had to experience an earthquake. At around 3 am, I woke to the rumbling. Part of me thought about moving, while the other part decided to go back to sleep. After all, we all have to die of something, and there isn’t much you can do in an earthquake other than drop, cover, and hold on. Besides, it wasn’t the worst earthquake I’d experienced, so my instinct had probably decided it was safe, while my half-asleep mind was making probability calculations and escape plans. When I checked the earthquake monitoring sites, I found that earthquakes had been happening all month, almost every three to four days… THE RUMBLINGS OF CHANGE The earthquake had me reflect on major life changes in work and life. We often experience change as something sudden, but in reality, it is always happening in the background. We just don’t notice it until it no longer aligns with our expectati...