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A Mundane Comedy is Dominic Kelleher's new book, which will be published in mid 2024. The introduction is available here and further extracts will appear on this site and on social media in the coming months.

The 52:52:52 project, launching on this site and on social media in mid 2024, will help you address 52 issues with 52 responses over 52 weeks.

This site addresses what's changing, at the personal, organisational and societal levels. You'll learn about key changes across more than 150 elements of life, from ageing and time, through nature and animals, to kindness and love...and much more besides, which will help you better prepare for related change in your own life.

Choices

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The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven - John Milton, right as ever http://j.mp/17iZDqx

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Remembering I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart - Steve Jobs, http://m.news.com/2166-12_3-10271908-71.html

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One of great tragedies in life is things that matter most are at mercy of things that matter least - Goethe

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Now the stones of history need to be reused to construct roads that will lead wherever one wants to go - Theodore Zeldin

On Gnosticism

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Fascinating In Our Time episode on Gnosticism, The Gnostics divided the universe into two domains: the visible world and the spiritual one. They believed that a special sort of knowledge, or gnosis, would enable them to escape the evils of the physical world and allow them access to the higher spiritual realm. The Gnostics were regarded as heretics by many of the Christian Church Fathers, but their influence was important in defining the course of early Christianity. A major archaeological discovery in Egypt in the 1940s, when a large cache of Gnostic texts were found buried in an earthenware jar at Nag Hammadi, enabled scholars to learn considerably more about their beliefs.

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You have to choose where you look, and in making that choice you eliminate entire worlds - Barbara Bloom, American artist

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You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now - Joan Baez

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Whenever you are faced with a choice between liberty and security, choose liberty - Benjamin Franklin