Once you see a little gold, are you willing to keep chipping off the stone casing that surrounds you? Continue reading

Mindfulness is about grounding our attention in the present moment. It intensifies the experience of self-awareness. If we don't concentrate on the 'now' we tend to become carried away by our thoughts about the past or future and lose touch with the present moment. Seneca observed that most human suffering... Continue reading

“The snake that cannot shed its skin perishes.” Friedrich Nietzsche. Sometimes we have to let the old us die to make way for the new. The most fundamental property of our mind is its potential for growth. Unless we have the capacity to change our ideas and adjust our thinking... Continue reading

When you accept the challenge, you’ll come back as a new person. A greater version of your self awaits you. Continue reading

The forest represents the darkness, the unknown, the edge of your world. It takes a hero to go into the forest. The people in your community don’t know why you want to go; in fact, they try to pull you back, and ask you: “Why can’t you be happy with what you have here? But there’s this urge that exists within the brave-hearted to go and explore. Continue reading

We see suffering as something we have to bear, we do our best to avoid it, but at times it is inevitable. You suffer, I suffer, and for an endless list of reasons. Then society rushes in with all its fixes, all its sanitising cures. But what kind of ‘fix’ is possible in a world which is itself suffering and out of balance? Continue reading

What we choose to think, say, and do today, at this moment, creates our tomorrow. The power is in the present moment. This is the moment when we begin to make changes. We can start to let old beliefs and feelings go. The smallest beginning will make a difference. Continue reading

Many of us are so identified with the voice in our head (our ego) and the incessant stream of involuntary and compulsive thinking and emotions, that the voice of our Self is almost completely drowned out. Continue reading

We have created an inert, packaged, world that we think we can control and live in like a bubble. As I sit and read the news about humans herding to beaches, damaging the environment, and each other, I realise how a large proportion of the population doesn’t see Nature as a ‘living other’ but as a resource to be used. I call these humans ‘low potential’ because they are the ones that Nature wants to eliminate. The natural world is suffering and I believe the coronavirus is Nature’s way of bringing the earth back into balance. Continue reading

Feel the world around you, sense it, with your whole body, without words. No talking. No thinking. Just see. Just feel and connect. What happens at such times goes beyond words. When these good moments come to you they will fill you with a swelling tide of higher life as... Continue reading

If you are a seeker wanting to understand yourself better, improve your life, deepen your spiritual side, and listen to your soul to uncover your inner self, you can learn a lot from taking up your pen and journaling. Continue reading

The day you are born a seed is planted. The seed is your unique gift to the world. It wants to grow, transform itself, and reach its full potential. It has a natural energy that you can tap into. It is up to you to make the seed thrive, to express your uniqueness and share your gift with the world. You have a destiny to fulfil. And, the stronger your drive to achieve your full potential the more likely you are to succeed. Failure to thrive usually means you have succumbed to an opposing force - social pressures to conform, family misguidedly directing you to their choice of career path. You end up choosing a career path that isn’t what you truly want. Your heart won’t be in it and you become increasingly less engaged. You start to see pleasure as something that is obtained outside work. You have a voice within that emanates from your individuality and it calls you to a particular form of work or career. If you learn to listen you will develop a sense of your vocation.You will see it as a journey with twists and turns rather than a straight line. Some side routes will pull you more than others and eventually you will find a particular field, niche, or opportunity that suits you perfectly. It will feel right. And, because you are doing what you love you will learn more quickly and more deeply. You will have a sense of purpose and direction. In order to truly thrive you must love the subject and feel a profound connection to it. But what if you have someone in your life that constantly holds you back and stunts your growth? Don’t be with them, don’t make them the centrepoint of your life. If you stay with them you will be a cowering creature who is just a shadow of the person you really are. The day you are born a seed is planted. The seed is your unique gift to the world. It wants to grow, transform itself, and reach its full potential. It has a natural energy that you can tap into. It is up to you to make the seed thrive, to express your uniqueness and share your gift with the world. You have a destiny to fulfil. And, the stronger your drive to achieve your full potential the more likely you are to succeed. Failure to thrive usually means you have succumbed to an opposing force - social pressures to conform, family misguidedly directing you to their choice of career path. You end up choosing a career path that isn’t what you truly want. Your heart won’t be in it and you become increasingly less engaged. You start to see pleasure as something that is obtained outside work. You have a voice within that emanates from your individuality and it calls you to a particular form of work or career. If you learn to listen you will develop a sense of your vocation.You will see it as a journey with twists and turns rather than a straight line. Some side routes will pull you more than others and eventually you will find a particular field, niche, or opportunity that suits you perfectly. It will feel right. And, because you are doing what you love you will learn more quickly and more deeply. You will have a sense of purpose and direction. In order to truly thrive you must love the subject and feel a profound connection to it. But what if you have someone in your life that constantly holds you back and stunts your growth? Don’t be with them, don’t make them the centrepoint of your life. If you stay with them you will be a cowering creature who is just a shadow of the person you really are. Continue reading

“See, how cruel the whites look,” said Hopi elder, Mountain Lake. He was speaking to Carl Jung who visited the Pueblos of Taos, New Mexico in 1925. “Their lips are thin, their noses sharp, their faces furrowed and distorted by folds. Their eyes have a staring expression; they are always... Continue reading

In nature, nothing is isolated. If we have lost our connection with Nature, we have lost our connection with ourselves. Continue reading

The idea that if one is in the “Tao” then one’s path in the external world is unencumbered, and, inversely, when one encounters a disturbance in the world, it is usually indicative of an inner disturbance. Continue reading

We are all so much more than the “I” of whom we are aware. Continue reading

Occasionally, I let stress overtake me, but then I notice that I stop being a creator and I lose sight of my hopes for a better future. I go into survival mode, inside a primitive emotional state that causes the ‘fight or flight’ response. These are the times I recalibrate.... Continue reading

The truth is that as the struggle for survival has subsided, the question has emerged: survival for what? Evermore people today have the means to live but not the meaning to live for. Continue reading

Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible. Continue reading

There are many forms of courage including physical courage that enables us to face danger and perform daring feats of strength. Moral courage is where we stand up for what we believe in, and, for many of us, including me, the most profound form of courage is the willingness to... Continue reading

I completed my first journal entry in my Red Book. Psychologist James Hillman believed that one of the greatest mysteries of human nature is the question of character and destiny. In his bestseller The Soul's Code, he proposed that our calling in life is inborn and that it's our mission... Continue reading

Your past does not define you. How you respond defines you. Too many people use their past to do nothing with their life. Life demands that we participate and take action but some people just say, “No I’m too injured.” Continue reading

The squirrel’s cache of acorns lay buried and forgotten in the ground. It was a hard winter and Nature was cold and unreceptive to the little acorns. On the first day, it rained heavily and the acorns were soaked through. “Now,” said one of the acorns, “This is the ideal... Continue reading

In Ancient Chinese philosophy, yin and yang is a concept of dualism, describing how seemingly opposite or contrary forces may actually be complementary, interconnected, and interdependent in the natural world, and may give rise to each other as they interrelate to one another. There are many given meanings to this... Continue reading