The more I encountered the concept of the elements early on in my acupuncture studies, the more I became fascinated by the idea that the sam...

A few happy or odd things which I am drawing together into a pre-Christmas blog to cheer myself (and I hope others) up: First:   An artic...

I have come across two individual pieces of writing which in their different ways both describe the mystery which is at the heart of human ...

I came across this quote from the Apple’s founder, Steve Jobs, in a Guardian article a few days ago: “Simple can be harder than complex,” ...

It is with delight that I come across pieces of writing which make me laugh because of their rightness.   I heard two such this week, one a...

Sometimes I come across very appropriate quotations about the elements in books that I read.   I like to collect these.   Here are two more,...

I love unexpectedly coming across beautiful writing.   The quote below is from a book by Alexandra Fuller, who writes about her life in Afr...

I love coming across inspiring words.   The ones I have just read are from an interview with Bianca Jagger in today’s Guardian newspaper. ...

I love collecting quotations which open my mind to new thoughts.   Here are two more, one from the detective writer, Michael Dibdin, and the...

A reader of my blog asked me to explain one of the quotations with which I like to litter this blog. This was the line from a book by Elizab...

I have just been to a lovely series of concerts by students at the Royal Academy of Music here in London , hearing some of the most beautifu...

Somebody, I don’t remember who now, gave me this lovely quotation which haunts me, though I’m not sure exactly what it means: “The truth is ...

I am not a natural reader of poems.   I have always found that I need to hear somebody reading them to me before I really understand their r...

I like to collect wise sayings, and today, to my delight, I have come across two, both of which have taught me something new. Here they ar...

You could not have a better description of the qualities of the Wood element than that from this passage which I came across when reading To...

I have looked through the list of quotations illustrating the Wood element which I gave our SOFEA students;  I am offering them here to my b...

I  have always liked writing down particularly relevant quotes about the different elements in the books I read.   The first quote is from a...

I love finding little snippets of other people’s thoughts which illuminate my life.   Here’s one from the German philosopher, Nietzsche, w...

I came across this quotation in a book I was reading.   “It’s never too late to be what you ought to have been.”   It was attributed to the ...

It’s funny how often I come across some quotation which seems particularly relevant.   A few days ago, I read the following in, of all thi...