Some years ago we visited an ancient house on the banks of the Wye in Hereford. Some of its walls had been the bulwark of the 12th century castle. The owner told us that he had had terrible trouble with damp. Successive generations had made many attempts to keep it…
In mystic states we both become one with the Absolute and we become aware of our oneness. This is the everlasting and triumphant mystical tradition, hardly altered by differences of clime or creed. In Hinduism, in Neoplatonism, in Sufism, in Christian mysticism, in Whitmanism, we find the same recurring note,…
I came across the Indian Guru, Ramana Maharshi a few years ago and was impressed by the simplicity and universality of his teaching. A friend introduced me to Rupert Spira’s YouTube video on this subject and I thought, “Wow! This a message for everyone, and in modern language and style.…
Click the link to see the Scottish COP26 Interfaith Prayer and Meditation Vigil / Launch of Scottish Interfaith Week:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9wDl36mJms
Protesting can often be against something and such negativity is self defeating. It deflects attention from the truth of what needs to happen. Here are two quotations which support this idea: “Those who crusade, not for God in themselves, but against the devil in others, never succeed in making the…
Hazrat Inayat Khan: I first believed without any hesitation in the existence of the soul, and then I wondered about the secret of its nature. I persevered and strove in search of the soul, and found at last that I myself was the cover over my own soul. I realized…
What we take in by contemplation, that we pour out in love.’ (Meister Eckhart) Commentary by Eknath Easwaran: ‘The old dispute about the relative virtues of the active way to spiritual awareness versus the contemplative way is a spurious one. We require both. They are phases of a single rhythm…
The deeper we trust [in the grace that supports our life], the more easily we can open to the new—whether that means spiritually opening to a new dimension we do not yet understand or allowing change in our life situation. Trust is the antidote to fear that gives us the…
Do not try to save the whole world or do anything grandiose.Instead, create a clearing in the dense forest of your life and wait there patiently,
Have you ever tried combing your hair while looking at your webcam image? Try it sometime, it’s next to impossible. It seems that we are so conditioned to seeing our image in a mirror, which of course is the wrong way around, that when we see ourselves the right way…
