Radiance is often a word we associate with young people or brides…that sense of the light shining in the eyes and the whole face alive as if there is no way to contain the inner power and vitality flowing through that person. We experience their magnetism and it’s almost contagious. There are other times though...
There are those moments in life when we just know. Without any reason or logical context, or even time spent considering. We just know. It might be arriving at a place with a sense of coming home. It may be meeting someone for the first time who feels beyond familiar…a deep connection forged in the...
Oneness is both a simple and vast principle to explore. For some the notion of oneness may feel too abstract to be meaningful, for others it may be a foundational principle of life – encapsulated in the phrase ‘we are all connected’ perhaps? The idea that everything we do, think, say impacts everyone and everything...
So now the Government has passed the responsibility for our behaviour in this pandemic to the citizen our intentionality is surely more important than ever. We must be thinking not just of our own safety and needs but of the safety and quality of life for all – from those in our closest circle to...
Speaking about the heart or love is so often associated with being mushy and soft and yet in truth the heart is like a warrior with infinite capacity to face any situation however challenging. The heart is where we hold every moment of our lives, every experience, every feeling and emotion whether we deem them...
In the past few days I’ve been struck by the story of the stranger who noticed a man sitting on a bench outside a coffee shop in some distress – vomiting and sweating. As others passed by – perhaps avoiding someone they may have assumed had drunk a little too much – this woman stopped...
We’ve kind of got used to not seeing beyond today or tomorrow given the clouds of uncertainty that persistently hover. With many of our everyday ‘taken for granteds’ being on hold we’ve perhaps all had to get a little better at being in the moment, and living moment to moment. And as much as we...
Humanity is and has been in a profound time of mental activity and development of its intellect – this has been going on for several hundred years in this current level of intensity. We see it present in the ever-growing activity in Science, Medicine, Technology, Engineering and so on. We want to know about our...
Wherever we turn we seem to be confronted by difficult news, by distressing things happening. Convulsions in our world, affecting people. We get sucked into the suffering on a micro-scale, our compassion focused on the single individual, family or small group affected and facing the challenge. Appreciation of a bigger picture – a world re-forming...
So often when we reflect on our purpose in life, we become focused on trying to express it in concrete terms and that’s sensible of course because we like things to be tangible. We may find that our purpose is expressed in terms of a cause such as organic farming, or as a talent such...