by Lily Forester | Aug 24, 2020 | podcast, short episodes
Episode 48 Happiness is a Skill If happiness doesn’t come easy to you, then you may assume that some people are just naturally happy, that they were always that way, that they never had to work for it. For some people, that’s true; they won the happiness lottery. But...
by Lily Forester | Aug 20, 2020 | podcast, short episodes
Episode 46 Is Happiness your Priority? When something bad happens, you have the choice of what to focus on, how to frame it, and how quickly you forget it. In this episode, Kurt tells the story of how he was detained by police in Asunción for the atrocious crime of...
by Lily Forester | Aug 19, 2020 | podcast, short episodes
Episode 45 Grateful for Beauty Walking downtown in your city, you might see someone on the footpath playing a guitar and singing a Bob Marley song. You walk past a piece of graffiti, the culmination of years of learning to use spray paint to create fine detail. Often...
by Lily Forester | Aug 18, 2020 | podcast, short episodes
Episode 44 Dumb Compassion One day a student asked the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi what would be the most important quality for a human being to develop. The Maharishi answered, to the student’s surprise, the most important quality is discernment. If you do not have...
by Lily Forester | Aug 17, 2020 | podcast, short episodes
Episode 43 You are Part of a Great System If you’re a city dweller and you walk into the forest, you might enjoy the fresh air, the serenity, the beauty of the plants. Even so, you might be somewhat detached from them. Being from a modern civilisation, you might...
by Lily Forester | Aug 13, 2020 | podcast, short episodes
Episode 41 Begin Where You Are A lot of writers and artists are familiar with “blank page syndrome”. You’d like to start a new project, poem or painting, and at the same time, you are hesitant to even put the pen to the paper. It seems like we have two modes when...
