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

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.

This site addresses what's changing, in our own lives, in our organisations, and in wider society. You'll learn about key changes across more than 150 areas, ranging from ageing and time, through nature and animals, to kindness and love...and very much else inbetween.

Halcyon's aim is to help you reflect on how you can better deal with related change in your own life.

Identity

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The boundaries between you and not-you - what lies beyond your skin - relax and become more permeable. While infused with love you see fewer distinctions between you and others. Indeed, your ability to see others - really see them, wholeheartedly - springs open - Barbara Fredrickson

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If anyone...were given the opportunity of choosing from amongst all the nations...the set of beliefs which he thought best, he would inevitably...choose that of his own country. Everyone without exception believes his own native customs...to be the best - Herodotus

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By picking the least charismatic or forceful people it could for the EU posts, I think Europe was saying, "We don't want a role on the global stage, we want to protect our comforts." They are great comforts, but it'd be good if Europe used its strength to support a progressive line - Susan Neiman, http://www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2010/02/interview-obama-moral

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Your constant utilisation of thought to give continuity to your separate self is 'you'. There is nothing there inside you other than that - U.G. Krishnamurti

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You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing - that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something - Richard Feynman

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We had eyes, ears and brains long before we had passports and a nationality. Before being Americans, Russians, Chinese or whatever, we were human beings. The human society must be reconstructed on that fundamental truth - Robert Muller

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Today's "heads of state" should become governors or "trustees" of nations - Robert Muller

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The USA is now three countries. The two coasts and the middle; and to all intents and purposes, except in times of real threat, they should come apart, and become three different federations. The coasts should tailor their laws to fit modern life, and try to cut out the middle man. The middle man has them in deep shit. The populations on the coasts can refuse to send men to war on flimsy excuses. They can become international people. They can refuse to use the death penalty - Roy Harper