The world teaches us to acquire, accumulate and strive for love, peace and happiness externally. The next job, the next holiday, the next healing technique; the next partner promises to be the one that will brings us peace, happiness and contentment. The truth is that everything we seek is an attempt to feel union, oneness and a direct experience of what it feels like to be loved. We have arrived from beyond the veil of formlessness and Oneness and arrived...
As a writer, it’s a really good sign when I wake up and I know that I just have to get my laptop and write; that there is an excitement in me, a buzzing in my solar plexus and I just have to write. There is something in me which needs to be expressed; I can’t not write! So here it is and it is so welcome as it marks the passing of a time of ‘writers block’ where the...
If you come to my door then please leave your mind by the path on the garden gate. It’s not that there is a problem with your mind, you have a beautiful mind, it’s just that it gets a little lost and scared at times. Do not leave it by my door because it will bounce and jump, so that it can peak through the windows. Hang it gently, tenderly on the gatepost as if it were your favourite bag with a...
Deep acceptance and acknowledgement seems to be the most powerful medicine there is. Even 'letting go' or 'surrender' has an energy of something that needs to be removed, deleted or given up which can lead to a subtle conflict and feelings of resistance; of must and should and ought. Guilt or shame or blame are usually not far from these words, ideas and concepts of the mind. Acceptance seems to drop down from the mind into the heart space. The mind can...
So here we are again you and I fair lady of the night. Again you have slipped into my bed naked save for your silvery splendour. What is it you want from me? Why is it that you cast your full glance upon me And insist I do not sleep but instead that I lay awake with you? What kind of Lover are you That you come and go from my bed as if it were yours? Speak clearly now for you have my full attention. My...
We know unequivocally that the return to peace and love and communion between man and woman is a key part of creating 'the more beautiful world that our hearts know is possible' perhaps for our selves but more importantly for the children and the generations to come. But where do we begin with this seemingly huge piece of work that needs to be done when there seems to be so much disharmony and separation between many men and women? Where...
