Everything that comes to life is given form from the substance of its mother. And each mother is a reflection of the great Mother aspect that is the primordial source of all that manifests in form. However subtle or solid a form may be, its essence comes through the creative substance of the Mother. As the material world we know …
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A Meditation on Rumi and the Power of Poetry
This is a superb 10 minute TED Talk on the power of Rumi’s poetry, from Leili Anvar, an exile from suppression in Iran. Leili says whoever we are, wherever we live, we are all in exile, because as celestial souls we belong to another world, to a lost paradise to which we shall return, provided we have developed our spiritual …
Read More »One Swaying Being
As conflicts appear to intensify around the world and seep into all layers and structures of society, the real underlying division is becoming revealed. The essential difference is between who we may think we are and the realisation of our true being. It is what divides those who still identify as separate individuals competing with others, and those who know …
Read More »A Global Awakening Is Occurring
On the shifting sands of our current world situation, every moment seems to create a “new normal”. Just as we adjust to what seems to be a new “status quo” new questions arise prompting a review of what is real and true. Our beautiful planet has the abundant capacity to care for all that live within it and yet basic …
Read More »The Joy of the Unknown
As we observe events unfolding around our world, much we see might have been thought impossible a decade or even just a few years ago. Some of what may have been unthinkable back then, such as a persistent pandemic, climate change catastrophes or war between nations, has deepened a growing division between those who would reinstate past history and those …
Read More »The Diamond of Consciousness
There’s a kind of magic in the moment when we turn over to a new page on which to write, its pristine purity inviting the best we can express. It seems to magnetically call for something that resonates with that clean clear space. How much more magical is turning over to a new year. In that brief pause between the …
Read More »The Communion of the One Hearth
Throughout history human beings have been fascinated by fire; we have been both fearful of its destructive power and desirous of its nourishing warmth. Perhaps, in our ambivalent relationship with it, there is a hint as to our own nature, our essence or what ignites our will, love and progress into our potential. Our progressive journey of discovery and revelation …
Read More »The True Oneness of the Life We Share
Behind the surface events, and the headlines they inspire, we might sense a new human identity arising: one that transcends class, race, gender and national boundaries, and is centred in our shared humanity. This is illustrated in a joyful and engaging way in the initiative, “Bicycles For Humanity” which began with just one young man who had an idea that …
Read More »The Joy of Freedom
From around the world, we are hearing calls for freedom as though a great tide of demand is rising up against all that militates against it. The word, freedom, is being used in many contexts and with various shades of meaning – but what essentially is it? As we experience our inherent urge to freedom, we learn firstly that the …
Read More »A Beacon to Hold Us Steady in These Times
From moment to moment, new revelations are coming to light like clear markers rising out of the fog to guide us through the rocks and shoals of global crises towards the safe haven of a new world. This new world is the one divinely intended for our beautiful blue planet, a unique jewel among the heavenly brotherhood of planets around …
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