Become a fountain of blessings
Dear Friends Become a fountain of blessings! Blessing heals, uplifts, restores. As you walk down the street, enter a shop, or sit in a train, car or bus let your silent blessings descend on all […]
2010
The feminine principle and the creation of a win-win world
Humanity is approaching what may well be the most important watershed of its long history: the replacement of the win-lose model of relations between classes, nations, sexes, religions, competing economic groups, humankind and the environment, […]
Moving Mountains
Imagine that you are in the feeding centre for small children of a refugee camp in a war torn zone of an African country. Because food supplies are so low, every day you have to […]
Spirituality as a service
In one of the most powerful passages on oneness in world spiritual literature, the prophet Isaiah describes service as the ultimate path to enlightenment and the source of real health (the words whole, holy and […]
A meditation to start your day
A simple meditation to start your day There is a brief text which is one of the most universal, ecumenical texts in the world spiritual literature. Be you a Muslim, Christian, Buddhist, Hindu, Jew, follower […]
Resting in the palm of a great hand
A stanza from a hymn by the American poet Longfellow says so beautifully: Embosomed deep in Thy dear love, Held in Thy law I stand Thy hands in all things I behold And all things […]
Letter to a friend in a hurry
Dear Friend, I hold you gently in the quiet of my thought. The stillness tells me clearly that this crisis in your life, which most call a breakdown, I would name a listening time. As […]
Asking, Loving
Soon I will be celebrating the anniversary of a rather important date in my life – the time I dared to start thinking for myself. This, in turn, led to the most profound changes in […]
Is the universe friendly?
I once undertook a study tour of seven Western nations, in the course of which I interviewed over two hundred people belonging to nearly a hundred organisations whose work relates to global issues. Almost every […]
Spiritual laws to heal the world
‘Singing Silence’ is the name of the beautiful bicentennial, restored chalet at 10,000 feet where I have the good fortune of running summer workshops every summer. As I write these lines, I am facing the […]