“And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair” ~ Khalil Gibran Hey, Lovely!I had this crazy dream last night and you were in it. We met in the forest, you, and me. There were other friends there too. We all hugged, but none […]
Sitting In The Dark With A Stranger
“We feel most alive when we are closest to death.” ~ Nenia Campbell I’m in Adelaide right now, staying on my own while I write and work and attend a conference. After dining with friends last night I went back to my hotel and, on a whim, decided to go and check out the outside pool […]
Morning Healing Meditation Mandalas
“Outside the open window The morning air is all awash with angels.” ~ Richard Wilbur, Collected Poems, 1943-2004 “The period between four and six in the morning is called the Brahmamuhurta, the Brahmic time, or divine period, and is a very sacred time to meditate. ” ~ Swami Satchidananda, The Yoga Sutras And now […]
Don’t Isolate Yourself When the Going’s Hard
“No person, trying to take responsibility for her or his identity, should have to be so alone. There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep, and still be counted as warriors.” ~ Adrienne Rich I’ve noticed a worrying phenomena lately. People are going to great lengths to make their life […]
Requiem For These Passing Moments
“Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s part of what it means to be alive.” ~ Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore “It all goes away. Eventually, everything goes away.” ~ Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love Sometimes, life is […]
All The Ways You Never Knew You Matter
“Even very little things can change your destiny and throw you to a different path, to a different fate; you must never forget that even very little things have great powers!” ~ Mehmet Murat ildan Sometimes we play a bigger role in the lives of other people than we can know. Your actions, choices and […]
My Christmas Eve Gift to Myself
“Just imagine becoming the way you used to be as a very young child, before you understood the meaning of any word, before opinions took over your mind. The real you is loving, joyful, and free. The real you is just like a flower, just like the wind, just like the ocean, just like the […]
A Busy Night
“When the world is itself draped in the mantle of night, the mirror of the mind is like the sky in which thoughts twinkle like stars.” ~ Khushwant Singh, Delhi It’s a short blog today. Sorry. I was up most of last night talking with a client whose daughter was involved in a horrendous […]
Musings on Early Morning Magic
“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.” ~ W.B. Yeats I am sitting on the veranda of my retreat bedroom, looking out over the quiet, still bay. It’s cool this morning, and cloudy. A ribbon of pink light is beginning to colour the sky, slowly growing […]
Wide Awake for a Reason
“Night gathers, and now my watch begins.” ~ George R.R. Martin If you read my post yesterday you’ll know I didn’t get much sleep the night before. So last night I put myself to sleep at eight, all ready for an early night and a decent catch-up. Of course, things didn’t go to plan. Just […]
A Moment of Perfect Peace
“Spirituality is not to be learned by flight from the world, or by running away from things, or by turning solitary and going apart from the world. Rather, we must learn an inner solitude wherever or with whomsoever we may be. We must learn to penetrate things and find God there.” ― Meister Eckhart Very […]
Guided Meditation for Anchoring into Oneness Energy
“You are not separate from the whole. You are one with the sun, the earth, the air. You don’t have a life. You are life.” ~ Eckhart Tolle Today’s guided meditation is designed to help you understand and connect to oneness energy, that beautiful space of unity consciousness where we realise that we truly are connected […]
Getting Ready for Tomorrow’s Meditation!
“Your spirit is mingled with mine what touches you, touches me.” ~ Rumi A few weeks ago I started a series of seven weekly guided meditations, and tomorrow I shall bring you number six! I wanted to give you a little notice today so that you could be well prepared. So, for you to make […]
No Angels Wear Pink Pyjamas
“I do believe we’re all connected. I do believe in positive energy. I do believe in the power of prayer. I do believe in putting good out into the world. And I believe in taking care of each other.” ~ Harvey Fierstein Yesterday I went to a favourite cafe in New Farm. It’s the first […]
Something Very Beautiful
“Sometimes people are beautiful.Not in looks.Not in what they say.Just in what they are.” ~ Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger When you begin to see with your heart, beauty is everywhere. There is something very beautiful in a Nana rocking a child to sleep in her arms, unselfconsciously singing in the corner of a crowded shopping mall… […]
Last Night I Flew Alone
“Love is how you earn your wings.” ~ Karen Goldman Last night I lifted from my bed and took to the night sky. I flew the way that Auntie showed me. But last night I flew alone. As the land fell away beneath me the air was soft and cool, and it smelled of coming […]
Steps Towards Loving and Accepting Yourself
“Your problem is you’re … too busy holding onto your unworthiness.” ~ Ram Dass “Your task is not to seek for Love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” ~ Rumi Most of us believe that to be truly loved by another, their love […]
Coffee with a (feathered) Friend
“Without birds, trees would be very lonely and men too!” ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan As I sipped a coffee yesterday, killing time, with worries on my mind, a little Mickey Bird (Noisy Miner) came to visit me. The Universe must have known I needed some company. The friendly bird stayed with me, singing cheery songs and […]
So Many Questions
“An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers. To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy.” ~ Madeleine L’Engle I’ve been inundated with two main types of questions since my post yesterday about being woken by a voice with a message for me. These are YOUR questions, filling up my […]
View From My Windows
“Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.” ~ Edith Wharton, Artemis to Actaeon and Other Verses My windows are both real and figurative. The picture above is the view from my bedroom window. This view changes hour by hour, and affords me much pleasure. In the early mornings the sky is grey, before becoming […]
A Comforting Realization of Life’s Truth
“There’s a flame of magic inside every stone & every flower, every bird that sings & every frog that croaks. There’s magic in the trees & the hills & the river & the rocks, in the sea & the stars & the wind, a deep, wild magic that’s as old as the world itself. It’s […]
Walking Through The Fire…
“Things get bad for all of us, almost continually, and what we do under the constant stress reveals who/what we are.” ~ Charles Bukowski, What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire It’s the hardest thing I’ve done, this path I’m walking right now. In fact I’ve found, daily – to my bewilderment, that […]
Kindness – Pass it on!
“Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.” ~ Og Mandino I have a favour to ask […]
The Value of Encouraging Other People
“The purpose of life is not to be happy – but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.” ~ Leo Rosten Life can be so very trying at times. We can find ourselves alone, we might fall on hard times, lose our health, […]
2013 – Guidance for the Year Ahead
Happy New Year and welcome to the energies of 2013! New Year’s Day is always a special time for me. I like to welcome the day with meditation, a walk at the beach, and a swim in the ocean (one of the benefits of it being summer in Australia right now). Then over the course […]
Manifesting a Positive 2013 – An Invitation to Join Me
“New Year’s eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on […]