top of page
.png){kind=small}
"In a way Australia is like Catholicism. The company is sometimes questionable and the landscape is grotesque. But you always come back."
Standard
Customized
More
"Everywhere you travel to, be fully there."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I travel to Jakarta, I see what an important country it is. I've been working with them for a year."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I just travel all the time. And I was just looking at the schedules now and starting the first week of October I will be every weekend with somebody at tournaments through Christmas. So it gets very difficult to just go away and not do that."
Author Name
Personal Development
"When travelling, concentrate on the path! Don't sleep! Don't read! Just live the journey in full by observing the path instead of wandering in your own world!"
Author Name
Personal Development
"Every traveler has their unique observation of the place they have been."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Every travel is sacred."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I never travel without my sketch book."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The journey was a worthwhile. We gain new insight into cultural diversity."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Travel teaches as much as a teacher."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Traveling-to-a-place energy and living-in-a-place energy are two fundamentally different energies."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"Thomas was my true name but everyone knew me as Mick, except my mother, who knew me as definitely Michael."
Family
"And I liked pluralist Australia. I got a taste for pluralist Australia. I like, I like Australians and I can't believe that they're going to go to hell because they tell a good dirty joke, you know."
Hell
"Um, what I found though about the Christian Brothers is this: that they were certainly muscular."
Christian
"And I think my sexuality was heavily repressed by the church, by the, you know, the design of the mortal sins."
Design
"And so um, I knew that I really didn't want to be a priest and didn't want to be a celibate, though I could probably manage it. Um, and um, ultimately I left."
Want
"You know, so I was a weird eccentric kid but I did believe in the power of the word and of the word being made flesh I suppose, which again I suppose came from my temperament as well as my upbringing."
Power
"And I definitely wanted to be a writer, but I felt a duty now, having used up those educational resources, I felt a duty to the church and my parents to become a priest."
Church
"Australia integrated the - brought on the ships and unleashed in the society the dogs of sectarianism, which had existed in other places - in Glasgow, in Liverpool and of course in Ireland, north and south."
Society
"So I remember both medicine, because I frequently sick, particularly with asthma for which there was no proper treatment then, and in religion I had a strong sense of there being a patriarchy."
Religion
"And I found both literature and the church very dramatic presences in the world of the 1950s."
Church
bottom of page