January 2011
12 posts
“So, the next time you’re at a cocktail party, or a wedding reception, or sitting...”
– from Popular Linguistics Magazine
“And there are those who give and know not pain in giving, nor do they seek joy,...”
– The Prophet - Kahlil Gibran. A really nice rendering of the idea of ‘renunciation of the fruits of action’, that I first came across decently put in Gandhi’s translation of the Bhagvad Gita.
“God listens not to your words save when He Himself utters them through your...”
– The Prophet - Kahlil Gibran. I think I read a wonderful, life-affirming pantheism all the way through this work. Somehow it seems to me that it’s easy to understand any of the world’s life philosophies in terms of the ideas in The Prophet. I think there must be a few works like this:...
Dealing with special colleagues →
Thought-provoking talk about ‘special colleagues’. Based around hospital team interactions, but can be considered in a wider context.
