This comes from the evening exchange on Sunday 23 March 1986, at Newport. The young man who spoke said that he hadn’t liked the job he was doing, which was […]

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This is from a weekend work of Sunday 23 February 1986 (it is not in his book)   In the evening, a woman spoke about how she had been tired. […]

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Part One: Mrs Staveley Mrs Staveley was an extraordinary woman: there is no doubt about that. I was at her Two Rivers Farm between 1 and 18 January 1996, if […]

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This comes from a Tuesday night meeting at Newport on 23 November 1982. A woman whose voice I cannot identify asked Mrs Adie: “I felt very strong after the week-end […]

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This exchange comes from Saturday 22 March 1986 at Newport. Mr Adie had given the morning address, and now, at lunch and again at supper, people would bring questions. This […]

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This is from the meeting of Tuesday, 11 October 1983, at Newport. The second question of the evening came from Annabelle. I have not even tried to accurately render the […]

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Formulation and Dithering   It is a beautiful, entertaining word: “dithering”; quite one of the modest glories of the English language. You could spend the afternoon in nature, on a […]

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Part One This question and answer come from Tuesday 9 March 1982, at Newport. The “question”, almost a manifesto, took around thirty minutes. The basic message of this marathon effort […]

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This is from the meeting of Wednesday 2 April 1986,  in response to a man who was on the brink of bankruptcy. Mr Adie said: “You tell yourself that it […]

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The Flywheel In this meeting from Wednesday 2 April 1986, Mr Adie made reference to the image of the flywheel, one which he had used from time to time. Fortunately, […]

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