honesty, forgiveness

honesty, forgiveness, a photo by davidg on Flickr.

from James Buchan, author of Frozen Desire

'... it is told of Nelson Mandela ... after much persecution, and when he was finally freed from prison ... he said to himself that he had to forgive all those who had wronged him by the time he reached the prison gates or he would never be free of them.'

from Iris Murdoch, The Sea, the Sea

'The past buries the past and must end in silence, but it can be a conscious silence that rests open-eyed. Perhaps this is the final forgiveness ...'

The Power of Vulnerability

'Vulnerability is about courage.'
 
'Uncertainty, exposure and emotional risks ... are part of our daily experience.'

'Our capacity for wholeheartedness can never be greater than our willingness to be broken-hearted.'    

 

Dr Brene Brown

http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/encounter/vulnerability/4745912

http://www.brenebrown.com/books/

'Affluenza: When too much is never enough' Clive Hamilton & Richard Denniss

HK Shopping Mall, a photo by betta design on Flickr.

'Nineteenth century economists predicted that the abundance made possible by technological advances and the modern organisation of work would result in the emergence of 'post-materialist' humans - people existing on a higher plane, where their cultural, intellectual and spiritual powers are refined.

But instead of witnessing the end of economics we live in a time when economics and its concerns are more dominant than ever before.


People in affluent countries are now even more obsessed with money and material acquisition, and the richer they are the more this seems to be the case.'

http://www.clivehamilton.com/books/affluenza/ 

http://www.affluenza.org/