To Honour and Celebrate the 20th Anniversary of our GCGI
These are the times when we desperately need inspiring and healing words of wisdom, hope and beauty.
A Gift from our GCGI archive to help set us free from chaos and despair, so that we may achieve inner peace and spiritual calm, a more generous and rewarding imagination, inspiring and empowering us to take action in the interest of the common good.
Life Lessons I've Learned in a World of Conflicting Ideas and Aspirations.
Connect a painting by Jacky Gerritsen
Better ways to get better, find inner peace and contentment, lead a fulfilling life in
harmony with mother nature, beauty and wisdom
Let Me Know What is Essential- Let Me Walk in Beauty
‘O Great Spirit,
whose voice I hear in the winds
and whose breath gives life to all the world,
hear me.
I am small and weak.
I need your strength and wisdom.
Let me walk in beauty
and let my eyes ever behold the red and purple sunset.
Make my hands respect the things you have made
and my ears grow sharp to hear your voice.
Make me wise so that I may understand the things
you have taught my people.
Let me learn the lessons you have hidden
in every leaf and rock.
I seek strength not to be greater than my brother or sister
but to fight my greatest enemy, myself.
Make me always ready
to come to you with clean hands and straight eyes
So when life fades as the fading sunset
my spirit may come to you without shame.’
- Chief Yellow Lark, a nineteenth-century Lakota elder.
The seeds for a New World and New Life are in us and they need the waters of Healing to germinate and grow. Please take time to connect with the indestructible energy of Life that unites us all, by looking at the links below and reflecting on the hopeful messages that they project and guides us too:
World in Chaos and Despair: The Healing Power of Our GCGI Journey Of Hope
World in Chaos and Despair: A Path on How to Survive the Modern World
World in Chaos and Despair: The Healing Power of Love
World in chaos and despair: The healing power of art
World in Chaos and Despair: The Healing Power of Travel and Wanderlust
World in Chaos and Despair: The Healing Power of Meister Eckhart’s Four Es
World in Chaos and Despair: The Healing Power of Living in the Slow Lane
World in Chaos and Despair: The Healing Power of Ancient Wisdom
World in Chaos and Despair: The Healing Power of Trees
World in Chaos and Despair: The Healing Power of Mother Earth
World in Chaos and Despair: The Healing Power of Friendship
World in Chaos and Despair: The Healing Power of Gardens
World in Chaos and Despair: The Healing Power of Nature-Based Education
World in Chaos and Despair: The Healing Power of Poetry
World in Chaos and Despair: The Healing Power of the Dawn
World in Chaos and Despair: The Healing Power of Slow Food
World in Chaos and Despair: The Healing Power of Interfaith Spiritual Music
World in Chaos and Despair: Rediscovering the art of healing ourselves and all that is around us
World in Chaos and Despair: The Healing Power of Laughter
World in Chaos and Despair: The Healing Power of Music
World in Chaos and Despair: The Healing Power of Slow Reading
World in Chaos and Despair: The Healing Power of Gratitude
World in Chaos and Despair: The Healing Power of the Simple Things in Life
World in Chaos and Despair: The Healing Power of Doing Good
World in Chaos and Despair: The Healing Power of Storytelling
World in Chaos and Despair: Remembering the Lessons of Hiroshima and Nagasaki