‘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 dazzling white summit of the 15,000 foot Dent Blanche peak, and realizing what an extraordinary...
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Clearing Up a Misunderstanding
There is a widespread New Age belief that our thoughts create our diseases, i.e.that we are responsible for everything that happens to us. It is said by some that ‘resentment causes cancer, oppression is something we bring on ourselves, and even, for some teachers of this school of thought, poverty....
Continue reading...Learning to love myself
Dear Friends, It is difficult to give to others what one does not give to oneself. Intelligent, authentic self-love is one of the most crying needs of our culture. For so long we were told to love our neighbour, but the ‘as yourself’ part was usually omitted, yet it is...
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Blessing Works!
Dear Friends For many years, I have been receiving letters, phone calls and emails from all round the world on the healing impact of blessing. Ultimately, the basic theme of these letters is: Blessing works! Blessing heals! Blessing fills life with joy, vitality and gratitude. Blessing is love in action....
Continue reading...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 – including yourself – like a gentle rain. Become a world healer through blessing. A...
Continue reading...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, by a win-win approach in all areas. The future of our race possibly hinges more...
Continue reading...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 chose a few babies or very small children you can admit to the centre in...
Continue reading...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 healthy stem from the same root): Is not this the fast that I have chosen?...
Continue reading...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 of shamanist practices, this text speaks to any open heart. The reason is that it...
Continue reading...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 in Thy hand. We can hold each other – and ourselves – trustingly in that...
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