“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. ...
It has gone largely unnoticed that a major conference on climate change has been taking place in China, and that it has ended in acrimony between the Chinese and American representatives and with little progress being made. The next conference in Mexico in November does not look hopeful for achieving major change either. As we […]
The new moon on Thursday has initiated a cycle of calm, and there is a sense of relief in the energies around me that this has come at last, following an extended period of jumbled tension, pressure and confusion. It has been a testing time for many people, for some the hardest of their lives. […]
The British Prime Minister in his party conference address yesterday focused on altruism and shared community responsibility. It is a theme which forms the heart of the New Consciousness philosophy (and detailed in my website). It is the essence of modern spirituality also as epitomised and practised by human beings - moving away from the […]
Please spare a thought for Hungary today. Devastating and lethal toxic waste from an aluminium plant has broken through a restraining dam and is pouring through land and villages now, entering water tributories to the Danube and threatening the Danube itself. Wherever the red sludge goes, serious contamination follows, and already homes and land are […]
I have witnessed a number of events in the last few days which have caused me to reflect on the nature of rural life in the context of the new spiritual cycle under way now. There is a wisely held belief that the greatest opportunities for spiritual growth lie through living within a remote rural […]
Because I believe so profoundly that everything happens for a good reason, I try to see what is happening around me with equanimity and understanding and in a spirit of optimism. For this reason I am careful in how I express my views on apparent crises and disasters in the world (current or to come) […]
