A Pact with a Staircase
Twenty years ago I made an agreement with the staircase in my hermitage – that I would always pay attention when I walked on it – and since then I’ve never failed to go up […]
Meditation
You Are the Gift!
I was browsing through William Bloom’s The Power of Modern Spirituality when I noticed this lovely exercise, which is just part of our Advent gift to you on 7th December. What occurred to me as […]
Enlightenment in the World
My life has been punctuated with meditation retreats. Maharishi used to describe meditative growth as like dipping a cloth into the dye, then exposing it to the sun, thus slowly making the colour fast. I’m […]
The Song of Life – a message from Ann Napier
An Introduction to The Song of Life: Cygnus Review Calendar 2012 Spending most of our time inside buildings under artificial light, as so many of us do, it is easy to feel cut off from […]
The Bowl of Light
At twilight, Makua got up, using his walking stick for stability, and lurched over to his truck to reach for something in the bed behind the cab. He returned to the table under the shelter […]
Teach Us To Sit Still – Tim Parks
So why did you come? I demanded of myself in bed. Surely you didn’t really believe this experiment would help you stand up straight. Who cared about standing up straight, anyway? Why had I chosen […]
The Flower of Life and the Vesica Piscis
The best way to create this beautiful, sacred design is to work with a friend or partner who sits facing you. It’s also possible to work with a part of yourself you would like to […]
Finding Peace in a Frantic World
Can you remember the last time you lay in bed wrestling with your thoughts? You desperately wanted your mind to become calm, to just be quiet, so that you could get some sleep. But whatever […]
The Hidden Power of Dreams
The Beginning Dreams are the mysterious language of the night. Each evening after the setting sun has beckoned the moon, a golden harvest is woven into our slumbering consciousness. Visions from the enigmatic, nocturnal realm […]
To All People Around the World
Please send your prayers of love and gratitude to water at the nuclear plants in Fukushima, Japan.By the massive earthquakes of Magnitude 9 and surreal massive tsunamis, more than 10,000 people are still missing, even […]