“Choose your intention carefully and then practice holding your consciousness to it, so it becomes the guiding light in your life.” – Roger Delano Hinkins This seems like sound advice to me even though not that easy to sustain. When we think about the intentions we choose, they are often quite grand and geared toward...
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” Winston Churchill Churchill’s words feel like a useful reminder of what’s needed for the times, indeed any times, we live in. He led a nation through the darkest of days, calling into service the hearts and courage of his...
Yes, it’s a huge, and some might argue unhelpfully, existential question…I know and yet, if now isn’t the time to ask it with all the chaos and self-imposed destruction, then when would be? As someone with a spiritual philosophy or set of principles through which I can view the physical world as well as the...
Depending on our preference, and current capacity for heat, the stunning recent summer days reminds us of the extraordinary beauty of nature – the bursting richness of flora and fauna, the vast blue skies given greater definition by shapely white clouds, the obvious presence of the life-giving sun. It’s a visual feast all can drink...
In a world filled with noise and motion it can be hard to find those moments to just ‘be’. Having said that even when those moments of stillness or quiet present themselves it’s very likely that we are habituated not to really spot them because we have become so used to engaging with the constant...
It’s often said, usually by motivational speakers, that we can be whatever we want to be, or can become whatever we want, or can manifest whatever we want. What’s noticeable in these sayings is the self-focus, the betterment of the lot of the individual. Whether be anything, have anything, do anything is myth or reality,...
“Change is the key that will open all doors for you, change of heart and mind…Simply know that every change which takes place is for the very best and for the good of the whole, whether they are personal changes, changes in the country, or in the world. Simply accept that these changes must come,...
‘What our deepest self craves is not mere enjoyment, but some supreme purpose that will enlist all our powers and give unity and direction to our life. We can never know the profoundest joy without a conviction that our life is significant – not a meaningless episode.’ Henry J Golding There’s so much talk about...
When was the last time you allowed your inner world to be expanded? How did you do that? Perhaps in a discussion group where people were bringing completely diverse ideas and opinions that reshaped your own? Or within a meditation where the normal rational mind was left behind at least for a time and new...
For me the recent death of Pope Francis brings into sharp focus the quality of conscious presence. Of course, I never met him and yet he seemed the living embodiment of all he believed and espoused – peace, humility, simplicity, compassion for all and especially those less fortunate and disenfranchised in our world. Amongst the...