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For good or bad, our lives are shaped by our relationships with other people. How can we make the most of our encounters, both with those who inspire us and those we find difficult?
Extracts from Wise Traveller : Relationships
Then, with perfect timing, he silently leans forward and with a familiar and practised gesture, offers her his arm and smiles...
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So we both waved, and made exaggerated facial expressions, and then grew nervous and didn’t know where to look as the trains inexplicably paused.
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...we had all chosen this path, and we indicated with each footfall our shared belief that the journey was worth making, not for the destination, but for the path itself.
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...How many other lonely gazes do I refuse to hold, how many other pleas for love do I deflect away with the calloused defences of my iPod-bubbled world?
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...Something to do with the journey itself: a belief that the journey matters, and not simply because of where it is leading. As we spoke to other travellers on the riverside path we were acknowledging that this is what we were - travellers sharing the same path.
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New contributions from Kester Brewin, Bruce Stanley, Emma Sergeant and Piers Lane
Spiritual 'classics' include Kathy Galloway, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Henri Nouwen, George Herbert, Martin Luther King, Jr and the Desert Fathers.
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