I didn't mind my own company as a child; I was happy playing alone in the sandpit..

Wars don't happen on battlefields; they go on happening in people's hearts for generations and generations, and the ecological damage is unfathomably….

The cartoonist’s task is not so much to be balanced as to give balance, particularly in situations of disproportionate power relationships such as we….

In order to be truthful We must do more than speak the truth. We must also hear truth. We must also receive truth. We must also act upon truth. ….

If European symbols and traditions have grown tired, perfunctory and oppressively banal in Australia, or been drained of spirit and meaning by the dr….

Each day is a lifetime. In the morning we are born. The day lies before us: vast and bright and new..

Is a brazen and innocent confrontation with paternal authority an unbearably terrifying prospect to some? Are the consequences of a fathers anger and….

Ah, whimsical. It's terrible the way words get attached to you like barnacles. As is what I do is acting on a 'whim'. If only these were gifts from G….

For me, spirit is the impulse towards life, the Eros in a person leaping forward, whereas soul refers to something possibly long.. suffering, where m….

When the heart is cut or cracked or broken Do not clutch it Let the wound lie open Let the wind from the good old sea blow in to bathe the wound with….

There is some suffering that awaits us all..

In order to be truthful we must do more than speak the truth. We must also hear truth, receive truth, search for truth..

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Love a single an additional and you will be satisfied. It really is as easy and as challenging as that..

Sometimes I wonder if the semi-conscious agenda of the media is to get between people and their souls. It is the the soul with its myriad tiny nerve ….

God help us to live slowly: To move simply: To look softly: To allow emptiness: To let the heart create for us. Amen..

The creative act is also in a small way a suffering act - we start out with our ego, this hope of making this thing whatever it be, but so often it e….

Don't give in to hate - it puts you off balance.

At the very simplest, I think as Van Gogh said and St Francis would have said, we must find nature. Just to be in the presence of nature your feeling….

Easter is reflecting upon suffering for one thing, but it also reflects upon Jesus and his non-compliance in the face of great authority where he hol….

There are only two feelings, Love and fear: There are only two languages, Love and fear: There are only two activities, Love and fear: There ar….