2018 – My Year of Ethical Living

2017 was a strange year for me. In many ways, it was an incredible year. I changed a lot, my confidence grew, and I learnt more about myself. I had new and exciting experiences; it was my first year in Manchester, I lived with one of my best friends, progressed a lot in my career and joined the National Trust. There were also hard times; work was never easy, I had a tough break-up from an otherwise fantastic relationship, amongst other personal struggles. All in all, though, 2017 has been a good year for me.

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One in Seven Billion

There are around seven billion people on this planet. Seven billion people, like you and me, who share a common humanity. Each one of us has a different perspective on the world, a different story to tell and a different experience of what it means to be human. The way that I see the world is different to a housewife from New Jersey, different to a Nomad living in a tent in the Sahara Desert, and different still to a seven-year-old girl living in a brothel in Thailand. And yet we are all connected, we all breathe the same oxygen and live on the same planet. As Satish Kumar says, “before we are Americans or Russians, Israelis or Palestinians, Hindus or Muslims, Shias or Sunnis, Catholics or Protestants, black-skinned or white, we are members of one human family. Whatever our nationality or religion. Under our skin we all have the same red blood. At quantum level we are all protons and photons. At spiritual level we are all pure consciousness.” We are seven billion stories, looking at the world through fourteen billion eyes and yet we are one human family.

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