Ed Dowding

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Progress seems to have forgotten how to have fun.

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Category: Happiness

Don’t do anything that isn’t play

“For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much – the wheel, New York, wars and so on – whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had [...]

Happy Monkeys

Pretty much everyone wise who has picked up a pen for the topic of happiness seems to agree that it lies in the simplest of pleasures, mostly coalescing around the contentment of our animal selves.

10 Things I Learned From Meditation

Because I find myself coming back to this question from time to time, here’s a list I came across at Fresh Creation. Thoughts are not reality Focus is important Media influence your view on the world People are good Positive thinking is very powerful Mistakes are good There’s too much stuff Listen to your body Helping [...]

Status Anxiety

(recreated from Alain de Botton’s book of the same name)

Notes from the Pyrenees

A first tentative vodcast… Music muchos gracias to the overwhelmingly talented Nathaniel Slade (Licence)

Travel Forever and Live Rent Free

http://www.camelotproperty.com http://www.guardianangelservices.co.uk http://www.mindmyhouse.com http://www.vagabondish.com/8-tools-travel-long-term-live-rent-free/

Shel Silverstein

What do we call ourselves?

A question from The Blended Lifestyle if we move away from a materialistic life, what is the name for the kind of life we enter into? I don’t like ‘de-materialised’ (so what is it then?), ‘simple’ (it’s not simple), or ‘spiritual’ (problematic term). So I am missing a word. Do you have any ideas? There’s [...]

Our first few days at Coueillas

Time flies, it really does. Today is Saturday. We arrived here on Wednesday night. And this is the first time I’ve had my computer out to write something. In part, this is because we don’t have internet yet, despite our best attempts. And in many ways, what a relief. It has allowed us to get [...]

Free Reiki Attunement

After a week doing a yoga and climbing course, where I was introduced to Reiki, I would like to give you the gift of a free Reiki attunement. Namaste, everyone.