“Don’t you imagine the leaves dream now how comfortable it will be to touch theearth instead of the nothingness of the air and the endless freshets of wind?”Mary Oliver, from Song for Autumn ...
May your prayers be answered well today. It cannot happen unless you ask – and there always is something to pray for if you look around and within you. ...
Yes, you are in service – but what does it mean? Often it is misunderstood, for in truth it is much more about being than doing.The spiritual Law of Service says that it is all about living, being and working in the world with an awareness for the needs of others, a wish to do your best and without attachment to getting personal gain or benefit from it. Keep it simple and remember, with a loving heart whatever you do you cannot fail. ...
In the early morning dawn today bats flew happily through dripping trees and wind-tossed leaves as the warm damp weather encouraged a multitude of insects to flourish and feed them. Grey and mysterious yet rich with the promise of autumn colour, the natural world rejoiced. ...
People have stopped pretending now. Certain world leaders have abandoned their claims of upholding truth and right clearly for political and personal self-service, but it will backfire. When weakness is visible vulnerability is exploited, while the pursuer of good becomes strengthened.What interesting, fragile times we live in. ...
The point of being part of the human race is to learn how to bring that part of us which is of Spirit into everything we think, feel, say or do in our everyday life. It is only when we are able to combine the sublimity of the internal with the external seamlessly that as […]
The Wikileaks cyber retaliation of the past few days was to do with freedom of speech, freedom of the internet and open-ness in government. You could call it a peaceful protest to encourage, seemingly, a better system of national and international governance based on transparency and integrity. What happened in London yesterday was the hijacking, […]
I am not a conspiracy theorist, but the speed with which the Wikileaks donation sites like Paypal and Mastercard and also Julian Assange’s personal acounts have been closed down is remarkable, particularly since, technically, no laws have been proven to have been broken by Wikileaks so far. There is a simmering sense of outrage in […]
As a spiritual teacher I am asked sometimes the best way to accelerate the soul journey. The answer is simple, but not always what the student wishes to hear. To focus on spiritual advancement is missing the point. To do so is a subjective distraction and driven by ego; the key is to achieve peace […]
Yesterday’s new moon in Sagittarius ushered in a lunar cycle to do with infinite limitlessness, and so filled with possibility. At the level of the human this has been and will continue to be for a while a scratchy period where lots of little (and sometimes big) events create feelings of unease or disturbance, and […]
There are very few parts of the UK which are not blanketed in a white shroud of snow today, and much of mainland Europe also is experiencing similar conditions. Snow is beautiful, cleansing, but also treacherous and deceptive, hiding many hidden dangers to trip us up if we are careless. It slows the pace of […]
