Wrestling with Eckhart’s Mind
This is one of the great debates in spirituality: are our minds useful or useless? The destroyer or the creator of illusion? A few weeks ago my mind was definitely a problem. It was racing […]
Spirituality
Protecting Barack
How can we protect Barack Obama? The new President of the United States is symbolically of huge importance. It is crucial that he does not fall victim to the same forces that assassinated Martin Luther […]
What is our life’s purpose?
A few weeks ago I met a bewildered woman. She was a successful civil servant in her forties who was waking up to her spirituality and had begun to attend some psychic development classes. ‘I […]
Why Do We Do Good?
My dad was sometimes very cynical. He claimed that people only do good, because it makes them feel good. Any act of generosity according to him always has a self-centered motive. I remember when I […]
Like a Tree in Full Spring Blossom
There is an idea that I love. It suggests that people emerge out of planet Earth in the same way that leaves emerge from trees.I like to view the great spiritual teachers in this way. […]
Transparency
A writer recently wanted to interview me for a book of truthful stories about the challenges of the spiritual path. He said that he was tired of all the teachings that suggested the journey was […]
If not now, when?
[NB: First published in June 2009] Dear Friends, This column is the first public announcement about a hugely ambitious project. It is appearing first in Cygnus because you, dear readers, are at the heart of […]
Talking Our Walk
Do you know the worst accusation made against us? (By ‘us’ I mean those of us who are part of this new holistic, open-minded, open-hearted spirituality.) It is that we don’t have any morals. This […]
The Best That It Can Be…
The best that it can be……On the face of it, this is a good statement: the positive approach to our life and the way we live it. Why should it, our life, not be the […]
A Servant of Compassion
I have been confronted with many difficult circumstances throughout the course of my life, and my country is going through a critical period. But I laugh often, and my laughter is contagious. When people ask […]