This is an amazingly positive message from a young woman who died at the age of 36 from cancer. Her burning desire to make a positive difference was achieved with profound success by the example of her life and her passionate final message.

After watching the episode of “The Crown” where Queen Elizabeth has to stand up to her uncle about his relationship with Hitler during and after the 2nd world war, and tell him he could not return to Britain, ever, I reflected that there is merit in making choices from a deep place.

Imagine speaking to yourself as you would to someone you love deeply.— Oriah ‘Mountain Dreamer’ House.

During December, I enjoyed having signed up to the TED Talks “31 Days of Ideas.” Each day, a different idea would arrive in my inbox – notes about why this talk was chosen, and a link to the talk. The last talk, on 31st December, was this one: Poetry, Music and Identity.

Reading this amazingly succinct story, it’s sheer brevity holds the essence of a life story. I'm very grateful to Ernio for creating this special space.

I love watching the full moon rise. When I let myself be still with this scene, there is a sense of my full potential emerging in the energy of this emerging orb.

When I was 16 years old, my first goal to change the world for the better wrote itself into my brain – to help open and respectful conversations about different belief systems. At that time our new school headmistress was leading us to have these conversations weekly. I enjoyed them and wanted to make them happen much more often. I thought that all I had to do to make our world kinder and fairer, especially about beliefs, was to change the way that others talked about it…

This Easter Sunday, I've been thinking about what Christianity means in today’s world.

Gustavo Tanaka  is a Brazilian author and entrepreneur. Not held back by the way humans have done things in the past, he and his friends are creating a new way of living on the planet that’s far more collaborative and harmonious than we have experienced to date.

A poem of thanks for all that Australia is today - all her people, all her land, all her living creatures.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes speaks eloquently about our true strength emerging when we are tested.

Looking back over the past 10 days since Donald Trump won the US elections, the topic has rarely been out of reach. As usual after such a significant event in our human story, many people are jumping in to analyse what happened and what it means for the future. I’ve been listening, and beneath the fuss and upset I have heard this…

After watching the movie “Still Alice”, a loving portrayal of Alice's journey through alzheimer’s, I wondered what is left when all we have is the immediate present and our innate response to it.

A conversation with my grandchildren (aged 10 and 11) this morning alerted me to the reach of the upcoming US elections. I wondered why they were glum, and asked if these elections were worrying them. “Yes!” They were both worried.

“Except for the point, the still point, there would be no dance, and there is only the dance.“T.S. Eliot. For many years this quotation has sat in my mind, asking for my reflection yet never giving enlightenment.

We saw in Britain last week, and in Australia this week, that the voting public has largely moved on from the old, combative two-party government systems.

In this video, Carl Sagan gives us a vision of Earth from space; how the tiny pixels of the image represent the sum total of all existence as we sentient beings know it.