Don't look here, look over there What exactly is insight? Time to break out the dictionary - it tells me: the power of discerning and understanding imaginative penetration (yes, I know...) awareness the apprehension of the principle It's about seeing things differently - going beyond the obvious, digging deeper and looking to grasp something more … Continue reading Insight
Author: paulsidle
Yield (in the pursuit of listening well)
For the last 20 years, I've specialised in restructuring and insolvency law. I read a lot in my job. It's an occupational hazard. Judgments. Skeleton arguments. Consultation papers and responses. Legislation - drafts (several) and final. Commentary on the same. Journals, articles and maybe the odd chapter or two from a text book. Thoughts on … Continue reading Yield (in the pursuit of listening well)
Parenting and patience (or lack thereof)
Home-schooling. Lock-down. I'm not as zen as I thought...
Near death experiences: beyond real?
I recently picked up a copy of Near death in the ICU: Stories from patients near death and why we should listen to them by US critical care physician Dr Laurin Bellg. It's an intriguing topic. The many first hand accounts of consciousness experienced outside of the human body are hard to comprehend. Objectively hard … Continue reading Near death experiences: beyond real?
Unfinished
Unfinished. It's how all our lives end. Thoughts not thought. Words not spoken. Books unread. Photographs not taken. You get the picture. But it's not so different, when you think about it, to our pre-life. Unborn. No thoughts to think. No words to speak. No books to read. No photographs to take. Perhaps I like … Continue reading Unfinished




