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Overcoming Obstacles
This inspirational talk by Nick White at the Wellington Ignite Conference gives an insight into what its like for an avid public speaker to overcome head and neck cancer and the loss of his voice.
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Top 5 death bed regrets
Palliative nurse Bronnie Ware recorded the most common regrets of the dying — and the most frequent of all was not having had the courage to live a life true to oneself. A sobering and clarifying reminder of what actually matters.
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The Apple of zen
Few people knew that Steve Jobs had a serious Zen practice, or that his teacher was Kobun Chino Otogawa. A dharma talk by teacher Peg Syverson considers what Jobs' life and death can teach the rest of us about attention, creativity and impermanence.
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This precious life
A luminous passage from Paul Bowles on the finitude of experience — how many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless. A quiet call to pay attention to the life you are actually living.
