Special edition of the Cygnus Review (Issue 8 2014). A Tribute: In loving memory of Ann Napier, founder of Cygnus Books (1954 – 2014)
August Review 2014
Happiness Is Your Nature
Creating happiness is not like following a cookery recipe. And when people say things like, ‘Be positive’, this is just placing another expectation or pressure on you. But in fact, happiness is already there. And […]
The Life of Ann Napier (6th March 1954 – 1st July 2014)
The Life of Ann Napier – By Geoff Napier Ann was born in north London to midwife Agnes Mary Macaulay and Woodcrafter Ernesto Alfredo Caschere. She has two sisters and a brother. From the very […]
The Initiation (February 2002)
Whatever the months to come may bring, we intend to make the following thought our daily meditation: However things may appear on the surface, what we are facing is not an outer process, but an […]
A Tangible Legacy
A Tribute to Ann Napier […]
Ann was, and remains, a shining light
A Tribute to Ann Napier More years ago than either of us will care to remember, and exactly where I do not recall, I met a very young Geoff Napier who was manning an MBS […]
The Healing Power of Crisis
Dear Reader, For us, creating this Review is really an act of listening. As we search through hundreds of books looking for just the right ones to offer you, we try to listen to the […]
What is Truth? (July 2006)
Dear Friends, If we were to pinpoint one quote which has influenced our thinking more than any other, it would probably be the following words, attributed to Jesus, from The Gospel of the Holy Twelve.* […]
Would you like to come and explore the hedgerows with me again this evening?
Dearest Ann You’ve written so many letters to your dear Cygnus members, I thought I’d write one to you. I’m sitting here,surrounded by your presence. The nasturtiums sway and dance with the cornflowers and I […]
Life is very short and there’s no time for fussing and fighting my friends
Somewhere in the silence and sadness of this hazy moment, the Great Swan is flying strong. The spirit of Cygnus lives on, guided and fortified with the same sustenance from which it grew, when Ann […]