Category Archives: Inspiration

Understanding ‘How to make one hell of a prophet and still get to heaven’

How to make one hell of a prophet and still get to heaven by Dr. John F. DeMartini

What the hell is heaven?
Payment is due when service is rendered.
Profits are a by product of having services rendered.
‘Work is love made visible’ – Khalil Gibran
Everything is light.
The inherent nature of divinity is love and light.
Spirit requires matter [...]

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Next Time Call Me Mixed-Race!

I have both white and black cousins, but best of all I have two places that I can call home.
How do you categorise someone who is not 100% white nor 100% black, without offending that person?
This is the debate that I walked into the other day, when a woman pointed at me and [...]

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We are the World

Another year has come and gone, yet we are no step closer to the ‘I have a dream’ reverence worded by Martin Luther King. It seems that our fears are holding us hostage to the beauty that ebbs and leaps inside and sadly the voices of our ancestors have been forgotten in the ebonics of [...]

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Scatterlings of Africa

Approximately 70,000 years ago, a small fragile group of humans in Africa embarked on a fantastic voyage. They left their mother continent and began a migration to every corner of the planet. As far as we know, they had no map, no compass, and no plan – just perhaps, a deep inner conviction that their [...]

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Biko’s message of consciousness goes beyond race

In 10 days time, it will be the 30th anniversary of Steve Biko’s death. What is remarkable when one reads his writings and trial testimony is the lucidity of his thoughts. He uttered these thoughts with such courage and fearlessness it is no wonder the apartheid government felt intense twinges of fear when dealing with him. [...]

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The black woman – with white parents

Sandra Laing was born black, but to white parents. It would have been strange anywhere – but in apartheid South Africa it was disastrous. Long before science learned to meddle with genes, there was Sandra Laing.
She entered the world in 1955, a beautiful baby by all accounts, who could be expected to grow up [...]

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The 4 Referability Habits

Entrepreneur and founder of The Strategic Coach, Dan Sullivan, talks about four referability habits that are the building blocks of great relationships. While you might expect these involve a complex algorithm of direct mail, word-of-mouth strategies and targetted advertising, the reality is that these habits are very simple. So what are they?

1. Show up [...]

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Moksha

Enjoy every each moment of moksha.

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Understanding ‘The Richest Man in Babylon’

The Richest Man in Babylon by George Samuel Clason

Wealth Lesson’s

Live upon less than you could earn.
Seek advice from those who were competent through their own experience to give it.
Learn to make gold work for you.

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Two Kinds of Learning
-        The one kind being the things we learn and know,
-        The other being the training that thought [...]

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Remembering ‘Stephen Bantu Biko’ 12-09-1977

He died today. Yet He lives.
A son of Africa died many tears ago, today
who used his mind and words as a weapon
a man of his people till the end
He lived speaking his freedom for all
He died a free man.
He lived.
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His mind and words was his weapon
silenced by an unhappy blow
he did not slip [...]

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