“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. ...
I am so pleased that some of you have managed to download the Wesak meditation and the recent channelling from the website Store successfully. You may have to look for the audio files in the CD section, because there is a little glitch in putting them onto the Meditations and Channellings page! Hopefully it will […]
In New York recently, a man went to the help of a woman who was being mugged. As he tried to deal with the situation he himself was stabbed. He lay on a busy street, slowly bleeding to death, meanwhile 36 people walked by him: one person stopped to take a photo on his mobile […]
Here where I am it is calm and still with a great sense of peace. It is as if all the hoo-ha to do with the British election and the European economies just don't matter - and in the greater scheme of things they don't. They are a means to an inevitable end - or […]
I sense some finger-pointing at Greece and the economic position she finds herself in. I feel for the land and the nation, which are the the forerunners once again for cutural and political change. It is not understood, perhaps because people don't want to think about it, how far other EU countries will find themselves […]
Yesterday I found the bodies of three birds clustered together beneath my greenhouse. They had been dead for a few days, and sadly one of them was a yellowhammer, which is an endangered species now. I believe that they had chased into some bushes nearby when a sparrowhawk flew through in chase, and then crashed […]
Because of the global focus on the current disruption of air travel, the tragedy of the earthquake in western China largely has been overlooked. It occurred on the border with Tibet, and hundreds of Tibetans living in the mountains have been killed or injured. "Coincidentally" the controversial new Tibetan railway is not far from the […]
