At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.
If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them – that only creates sorrow.
Let reality [...]
I often have things that need clarifying, resources that I can’t get hold of too easily even on the web and most pertinently the need for a one stop shop for all my spiritual and intellectual needs. Well recently I came across some great websites that I think you should really check out!
First up, the [...]
The scientific view of the world today, at least in post modern western society, has a tendency to sterilize the world, to relieve it of any aliveness. I know that many scientists will say the world is still full of wonder when we understand it better and break it down into its constituent parts. This [...]
People always do these end of year lists, so I guess I’d better throw in my tuppence! This is sort of ten of the best things I came across this year. (Sadly one’s still in the post and will have to wait!) Let’s get cracking anyway!
1) Music Inspired by Oh! Brother Where Art Thou – [...]
Over the Christmas, often because we are drinking and eating more our sleep becomes more disturbed, our dreams become very erratic full of mood swings and disconcerting events. It happened to me – in a dream I was having I witnessed myself and others around me having nervous breakdowns. The more philosophical among you will [...]
Here is my early Christmas present to you. Hope you enjoy it. Before I begin I just want to state the obvious. These levels are just an attempt to express the nature of reality in ways that accord with what I have learnt through the various spiritual disciplines and philosophies I have encountered. This information [...]
Saw this amazing film last night called Greenberg, directed by Noah Baumbach director of the mercurial The Squid and the Whale which has been around awhile, but it’s only now I got around to seeing it. It’s a very simple premise Roger Greenberg lands into a bit of house sitting in LA after a mental breakdown. [...]
So, are any of us close to ditching the approach of apathy and perfectionism? Well I like to think that certain mystics like the old Taoist masters and tribal peoples see only a world of harmony. Of course opposition occurs, but it is not seen as a problem, it is seen as a natural thing, [...]
Apologies for the wordiness this week, but that’s how it goes folks! I had a dream last night where I was going along nicely with the religious community I was in until the leader accused me of being depressed all the time. Then the whole thing became very uncomfortable with everyone worrying and fussing over [...]
Sounds like stern advice but actually it’s not. In fact quite the opposite. The other day, I was talking about getting my act together so I could head off into town to do some errands, when I hit upon the notion that everything I do, think or speak is just an act as in a [...]