Essays

Peter posted short essays online usually in conjunction with the release of a song

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Without You

May 16, 2012

This is a song about relationship

About the fact that – when we find truth in ourselves, we find it reflected in everything around us. We can only have authenticity if we ourselves are authentic. We will only see love and vulnerability when we allow the same in ourselves.

“Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.

Let’s …

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May Day – a few definitions

May 1, 2012

From Wikipedia:

1) May 1 is an ancient northern hemisphere spring festival and usually a public holiday; it is also a traditional spring holiday in many cultures.

As Europe became Christianized the pagan holidays lost their religious character and either changed into popular secular celebrations, as with May Day, or were merged with or replaced by new Christian holidays as with Christmas, Easter, etc…

2) International Workers’ Day (also known as May Day) is a celebration of the …

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Stories

January 2, 2012

“How I got here doesn’t tell me who I am”  – Open Hearted Hand

What do you believe and why do you believe it?

We have been living out of stories that we’re told. Stories we tell ourselves about ourselves… stories history books tell us… the newspapers tell us…. our parents tell us…

We decide whether we believe in these stories or not. And build quite complex cases to justify our position.

But where did these stories begin?

If you look deep enough, every story comes from fear …

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