This article begins a series that looks at how our love affair with individual car ownership will take unexpected twists, and much sooner than you think. In 1982, the London pop/ska band Madness released a song called ‘Driving In My Car’, a whimsical tune about the sheer enjoyment of driving (for a [...]
This article explains why I believe we should all get used to calling our unique planet ‘Earth Island’ rather than simply ‘Earth’. Our planet is unique – there is nowhere else quite like it anywhere that we know of. It is our home and it is the only one we have. As large and [...]
This article is about attachment and its effect on judgement. I was reading a book recently that contained a wonderful story about attachment. It is so simple and in alignment to the goals of Devil’s Inquisitor that I thought I’d use it as the basis for an article. The book is ‘Presence – [...]
This article looks at what people regret the most when they are faced with the final days and weeks of their life, and the lesson it has for the rest of us now. Having done the research for the article, what struck me most was that on the rare occasion we are [...]
“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.” Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965), English politician and writer
“It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.” G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936), British writer, social critic, playwright, novelist, and debater
“Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.” James Bryant Conant (1893-1978), American chemist, educational administrator government official, and diplomat
“We are our choices.” Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980), French existentialist philosopher, novelist, critic, and political activist