Tag Archives: Rumi

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 …

Our dream experiences can often be coloured by what we last read or watched before sleeping. It seems that the subtle impulses reaching us in sleep are presented in terms of the symbols that hover in consciousness from our experience of the outer world. It is as though whatever we focus upon colours or tints the field of our awareness …

As our world accelerates into a new turn in the upward spiral of its life expression, we may also experience a backwards pull from deep attachments to the known and familiar, like the tug of an outgoing tide. These opposing forces play out through many aspects of our living, and we may find ourselves taking sides in any number of …

In these times of quarantine and lock-down when once-busy streets are quiet and many businesses fall silent, we may find ourselves in an unaccustomed silence. If we can quell the urge to fill that silence with reassuringly familiar sounds, we might explore the deeper nature and potential of silence. The ancient proverb “Silence is golden” comes to mind and, with …

With much in the conventional news broadcasts reflecting what is breaking down around our planet, many are looking for alternative sources to provide a more balanced view of the world. And there are many options emerging to offer it. The Positive News Magazine in the UK (www.positive.news), the Good News Network in the USA (www.goodnewsnetwork.org) and the Good News Agency …

In the midst of the political campaigning that precedes our country’s election day, it’s easy to get lost in the word-spin and sleight-of-speech that weave confusing cocoons around slogans of presumed truth. Yet voters are increasingly seeking to know what the real truth is behind it all, the reality beneath the rippling surface reflections. Human consciousness is unfolding into deeper …

The holiday season here in Sydney has passed leaving lingering memories of restful days in the summer heat. For some it seems to have passed all too quickly as our sense of time seems to speed up. This “quickening” of time grows out of our expanding awareness – of the wider world beyond the immediately personal and of effects, through …

A co-worker recently described a small incident which left her feeling uplifted for a long time afterwards and still radiated its effect as we spoke together. She had brought her shopping to her car using one of the shopping trolleys provided by the supermarket and, as she completed offloading it, a man passing by smiled and said kindly: “I’ll return …

We may not often realise how deeply anchored we can be in the “way things are” until a crisis shakes us loose from old moorings and strips away the encrustation of barnacles from our little vessel so it may sail into the ocean of life. In such times – even if only temporarily – we can be reduced to our essence, …