In the past few days, the news about the defamatory actions against two American election workers in the 2020 election have shone a light on what it is to be…
Helen Keller once said: "Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding…
Reflection on Acts 2:1-11 and John 20:19-23: Priyanca Radhakrishnan, the NZ Minister for Diversity, Inclusion and Ethnic Communities, often starts her speeches with some statistics in relation to the diversity…
Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.- Doris Lessing - Photo: Beate Matthies
"The greed for fruit misses the flower."- Rabindranath Tagore - Passionfruit Flower Photo: Beate Matthies
"Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust and hostility to evaporate."- Albert Schweitzer - Photo: Beate Matthies
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.- Friedrich Nietzsche - Photo: Beate Matthies
"Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine to the mind."- Luther Burbank - Photo: Beate Matthies
We are not here to guard a museum, but to cultivate a flourishing garden of life.- Pope John XXIII - Garden Alberton, Auckland (Photo: Beate Matthies) Photo: Beate Matthies