To Be Alive
To be alive: not just the carcass But the spark. That’s crudely put, but… If we’re not supposed to dance, Why all this music? – Gregory Orr, Concerning the Book That Is the Body Of the Beloved
How to be happier in 10 f*ckin seconds or less
Meditate more… Have more gratitude… Let go more… Journal more… Be more buddist… “Ohm” more… Exercise more, eat less, sleep more, feel more, don’t be so emotional, be more mindful, but think less, feel less, drink less, stand up, listen more,...
There is no love that won’t break your heart
David Whyte on love – romantic, familial, for work, for walking your path through life and for discovering who you are. And how much of our energies and our time we spend trying to arrange things so we wont get our heart broken, trying to remain immune…...
Covid-19 Why does this feel so bad? And what to do about it
I hear the term “unprecedented” everywhere. How unimaginable this current happening is. How unimaginable people’s subsequent reactions to it are. I hear panic and fear, not just of the virus, but of “Others” – the panic shoppers, the ignores of social...
Covid-19 Information Overload – The Corporate Slice of the Covid Cake
This is exhausting. If I hear the word “unprecedented” one more time I will lose my mind. The pace and scale of information overload that we are dealing with right now is what is unprecedented. I predict the next big pandemic to be C19IO (like C3PIO,...
Your ego is not your guru
I hear a lot of use of this term “open hearted” being used in the community lately. Like it’s the goal. An absolute. An achievement & a badge of honour to how “enlightened” a person is. It seems to be used like a binary thing – a person is...
Is the Universe Friendly?
“This is the first and most basic question all people must answer for themselves.” “I think the most important question facing humanity is, ‘Is the universe a friendly place?’ This is the first and most basic question all people must answer for...
Celebrating death: Memento Mori
I have a picture of this fella hanging on my front door. I see him each time I go to leave my home. This striking drummer stands mid stance in a kind of ecstatic dance with the drum of death. Emaciated and wild, a wholeness of being, in flow of the Dance of Death. He...
The role of imagination in presence – John O’Donohue
Listened to this YouTube recording of a talk by poet & philosopher John O’Donohue last night and my brain kind of melted like a gorgeous gooey Galaxy chocolate bar of loveliness…Mmmmmm…and I woke up this morning still feeling the loveliness of his words…...
A soul’s duty to pleasure
So yeah! Today I am very happy to share that there does actually exist a religion in which it is one’s duty to experience the pleasures in life (at least that’s my interpretation of the doctrine which personally I feel is a pretty tight reading). I’m not sure what...
Cultivating Joy! A morning playlist
Joy! It’s not something I would naturally associate with practising, or that I think of as a thing to work at. A bit like love, it’s almost as though we consider joy as something unexpected that happens upon us in life. Like it cannot be planned for, or created. Like...
Oh how I long for black and white problems
I wrote this a few months back as I was spending time caring for my dad who had just started chemo. It was a very difficult time full of love and sadness and fear and private rage at life. I had completely forgotten I wrote it until I came across it tidying up some...
“What’s wrong with me?”
Sometimes when I get a flash of the thought “What’s wrong with me?” or “Why can’t I do that like everyone else?” or some other such comparison, I try to remember myself that there are an estimated 7,714,576,923 other humans in the...