Wheels Of The Mind

Certainty

Funny conversation with my 5y old daughter Scene: she is busy coloring and cutting up paper for her little project at her desk. I came in and just sat next to her, simply observing her activities Me: Do you know how much I love you? Daughter: yes Me: ( little surprised by her answer) How […]

18Jan

Early one morning I woke with the silence of the room. I felt into the stillness and felt a warmth in my heart. In a spontaneous moment of reflection I saw a very beautiful truth. Thought I would share it with you. It is not that we are searching for moments of clarity in an […]

16Jan

Unlock your heart

Sometimes our harsh experiences make us close the door to our hearts. We are pushed into a corner for safety. We may hide from the world to protect ourselves. We shun the light and the love of everyone around us as we lock our hearts and throw away the key. When we judge others or […]

15Jan

Water

When water came as snow I dug it up When water came in fog form I walked through it When water came from a shower I bathed in it . When water came from the tap I drank it When water came into a gutter drain I stayed away Water never really changed, my perception […]

14Jan

Being a bumblebee

Aerodynamically, the bumblebee is not designed to fly. It does not know this, but it skillfully does so anyway. There are a lot of activities and skills that we as human beings are not designed to do, but that does not stop us from flying, eating fire, climbing the tallest mountain or exploring the depths […]

13Jan

Hard Being human

The other day a friend called me up after I had lost a patient. He said “ It is hard being a doctor”. I thought about this statement for a while. My reply “ No, it is hard being human.” I am a human first, doctor second. There are difficult experiences as a healer to […]

12Jan

Unconditional love

LOVE UNCONDITIONALLY what does that mean? Dont I do that every day all the time anyway? NO We don’t Most of the time it is in our nature to want to control circumstances, people, situations etc. These may include our family, friends, kids, pets and so on. The closer they are to us, the more […]

11Jan

Slowing down I am always in a rush. I suspect you are too. I always have to be in at least 3 places at once. Family life, work life, personal life, all blend in at times as I forget the boundaries and enable the overlay of these worlds into one quagmire of confusion. Work chores […]

10Jan

What does it mean to love? For most of us the verb “to love” is easily used in passing as part of a greeting as we walk out the door in the morning, or to end a conversation over the phone. For many it is difficult to use in a sentence such as to say […]

09Jan

Patient encounter

Had an odd patent encounter yesterday. I had seen this patient ( Mr C) over the last week at the hospital while on call. It had been a prolonged course due to his several medical problems of pneumonia, lung disease, and kidney failure. I had assisted in stabilizing his cardiac conditions and the intention was […]

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