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Read more about the article The prisoner and the rain

The prisoner and the rain

The prisoner had sat all night in his cage in the rain, condemned to die in the morning. He was waiting, hoping with every fibre of his being for a reprieve; that his appeal would be heard and that somehow he would be spared. The hours came and went but no news came. He realised that this really was the end. He was soon to be executed. At first panic gripped him. He shook with fear. His heart ached unbearably with the thought of all that he was losing.  Then, as he accepted that there was nothing more to be done, he experienced an immense peace, a profound stillness. His…

Read more about the article A storm in a tea-cup

A storm in a tea-cup

Mindlessness – we are told – is the opposite to mindfulness. So what does that mean? What does it mean to be mindless? It means to lose touch with ourselves so much that we don’t even know that we have done so. Mindfulness, in contrast, happens when we realise – often with a sense of shock that we have been living in “autopilot”, going through the motions, without really being there, without experiencing our lives. Mindlessness can be described as a state in which we are distracted by a particularly fascinating movie of our own making. The title of the movie is “My Life” and it plays out on the…