Musings about ... Articles
Whenever I hear the word “god’, I get a sudden rush to go and let go of something. I guess that comes back to my Catholic upbringing, where god was this omnipotent being that knew whatever you d
read more...
Life is too short to drink bad coffee, is the slogan on the purple Zentfeld umbrellas. The same principle applies to books. Life is short so read good books — there are so many.
I dream of spend
read more...
One of the things which makes humans unique, is not just our ability to be alone, but to be able to realise that aloneness is actually our very nature, even as we are with others, whether it be as l
read more...
I sometimes wonder if I'll ever cease to be a prisoner of my past. Either the events which happened, dramas I made out of them, the belief in past itself, that it needs to be looked at, or even the
read more...
In Byron Bay, wherever there are seekers, what is heard most about is the desire for enlightenment, to be free. Free of what is rarely articulated. What do I want to be free of? The desire for a new
read more...
It’s funny the thoughts you have when you stop thinking. After a hectic few months of being out there, organising and making decisions, I decided to take some time out. A friend was going on holid
read more...
Probably more than any other place on earth, at least that I know of, Byron Bay is a place where people come to live out their dreams. What these dreams are will be unique to each person. Some have
read more...
Living, as we do, in a time of unbelief, an ‘unbelievable time’, heresy is scarcely an issue. However, less than a dozen generations ago ‘witches’ were still being burnt for heresy, sometime
read more...
Michael Light was for years involved with the Byron Bay local community, and has seen himself as a medium through whom healing can happen. He's worked in the prison system, as a social worker on the
read more...
I feel like listening. Deep listening. I’ve been doing a lot of thinking, talking, debating on issues and a lot of doing. It’s time to listen.
Not just to the people I find interesting and pass
read more...
The world is doomed. An over-reaction or a pertinent prediction in relation to the current debates about global warming and climate change?
I am still sorting through the information and misinform
read more...
I would like to tell you a funny and true story, a story that at the time I didn’t find so funny, nor did I see the significance in the turn of events that made this story so profound, and yet so
read more...
Letting go. How the f**k is one supposed to let go? So many times over the last few months I’ve heard “Mark, you must let go! You’ll get everything you desire (!) if you’ll just let go!”.
read more...
Everything I need to know about life I can learn from Michael Leunig. I met the man on his recent visit to Byron Bay and his teapot philosophy made more sense than ever before. With confidence I can
read more...
No other place evokes my sense of self more than the long, straight line of the horizon.
As a child you know where you belong. Your name, address and family ties you to a place and helps define who
read more...
Money money money. No money no honey, honey. Credit cards, houses, plane tickets, iPhones or simply freedom to lie in bed in the mornings rather doing a menial job to pay the rent. All related to mo
read more...
One of the best memorable spiritual experiences I ever had was when I was walking in the dark and had crossed a wooden bridge which led over a strong flowing creek in the bush of Huonbrook, NSW. I k
read more...
The truth excites me. Yet the more I thought and talked about it the more confused I became. I found that I knew nothing about truth. I could write pages on what truth isn’t.
It wasn’t so diffic
read more...
What’s in a name? It identifies you. It indicates your history. Your culture. And sometimes your fame. You know you’ve hit the height of celebrity when you are recognised by your first name only
read more...
I have been thinking recently about male sexuality and how it seems to have become one of the unmanageable things in our society. The papers are full of assault, rape, men spiking drinks, child porn
read more...
The quiet tap tap of the keyboard. Words fall onto the page with technological speed. In between the flow of sentences I gaze across the green fields to the ocean line stretching across the sky. It
read more...
More and more these days families are blended and the intra family relationships are becoming more complex and it is not always easy for the step-parent to stay out of the dynamic between their part
read more...
Believing our own stories.
Where would we be without our stories? In silence perhaps, in boredom? Now and again I find myself lost in stories, stories about this one or that, what is happening and w
read more...
A time comes in your life when you finally get it - when in the midst of all your fears and insanity you stop dead in your tracks, and somewhere the voice inside your head cries out - ENOUGH!
Enough
read more...
My car is sending me messages, or it was until it died. In my haste to ‘do’ I seriously neglected my mode of transport. I drove to meetings, appointments and other ‘important’ places and fai
read more...
Finding the courage to trust. What does that mean? When we say we trust someone, or we ask to be trusted, what exactly are we saying? Osho spoke often about trust, and of course he managed to say di
read more...
Are we creating, via the increasing role technology is playing, a society more tolerant of differences, or is technology pushing us towards a more Orwellian future? Is technology bringing us togethe
read more...
Krishnamurti said, “We are the world, the world is us.”
I want to talk about the possibility of healing ourselves and our families (and thereby our world) through the discipline of giving and r
read more...
Over the years I have heard and experienced so much around masks. It is even, in a way, old hat to even talk about masks, but their unconscious existence keeps popping up like that single sock.
One
read more...
In this TED TALK video video, Harry Potter author, JK Rowlings, gives the commencement speech at Harvard University, June 2008.
Here are a few titbits of her talk.
There is an expiry date on ma
read more...
Within ten minutes of meeting and greeting each other a group of women are likely to have discussed the new teacher at school, Jean’s haircut, the film they saw last night and Brenda’s latest tr
read more...
Goliath was a huge man. He was a giant who stood more than nine feet tall. He cursed at the Israelites and said bad things about their God. He asked one man amongst the Israelites to come out to fig
read more...
I remember once in the ashram in Pune I saw the signs promoting the Unworthiness group that was about to happen. No way! I’m not gonna do that. God, it will be a room full of dorks, of people whos
read more...
Over the course of the 2008 US [world??] presidential campaign and the democratic primaries beforehand, I often found myself in tears as I watched Obama’s speeches on the internet or on TV. Agai
read more...
