Mark O'Briens 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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!”.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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