The text on this website will hopefully make its readers think and hopefully accept, and even more hopefully, adopt some of its principles. I know that I have to think about what I am writing and in doing so, the words bed themselves even deeper into my consciousness.

Most people know what happens when a pebble is dropped into still waters. And what happens is a series of concentric rings – waves if you will – emanating from the point the pebble touched the water. These could go on forever albeit ever smaller in amplitude until they reach a point where they are imperceptible.

As I have grown as a human being, I accumulated lots of rubbish as well as many interesting experiences that fine-tuned me into a philosopher. So what has philosophy got to do with pebbles? That is a very good question and one that I hope to answer over the course of a lifetime, both here and in articles that appear on the companion website called A Way of Seeing.

There is no doubt that life brings many obstacles that challenge the very way we think and feel but also many moments of joy and laughter that go to balance the perceived negative. We have to experience both in order to value both for they both have currency. It is sometimes difficult to see meaning in the negative but its trial is there to hone and to sharpen our understanding that life is an experience.

All of my ‘negative’ experiences have given me wonderful opportunities to discover a  self-awareness and a self-insight that I could not have possibly gained in any other way. It is only after the completion of a particularly arduous journey can I see the positive in the path travelled.

Be The Pebble is about being willing to change oneself to effect similar changes in others. You cannot ask another to change unilaterally just because it will make your life better – that is simply hiding from your own demons. You can only change yourself. And that dear reader is where you must start.