Tag Archives: Rumi

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

As the Autumn sun slants through the trees and streams in through windows in this southern half of the world, it reminds us of the cycles of harvest, rest, renewal and growth, and the beneficent forces that initiate them. We remember the cyclic nature of Life as it moves through everything from individual to universal. Our whole world is currently …

As we strive to maintain accustomed patterns of daily living with the pandemic challenging them at every turn, it is easy to lose sight of truth in the crosscurrents between a long-established worldview and one that is yet to fully emerge. We seem to be confronted with a confusing cloud of conjectures, assumptions and opinions that come in a constant …