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  “It’s not what you have; it’s what you are”. Abundance is not the money you have in your bank account, the trophies on your shelf, the letters after your name, the list of goals reached, the number of people you know, your perfect body, your adoring fans. It is your connection to each breath, […]

The Kingdom of Heaven is spread out upon the earth, yet men and women do not see it.” – Jesus, Gospel of Thomas So much of spirituality these days seems to be an attempt to turn ourselves into superhumans. It is a war against imperfection, an attempted genocide against what is unfamiliar and therefore frightening […]

Imagine this. You’re a spiritual teacher. A ragged child, starving hungry, shivering in the bitter cold, comes up to you. She asks you why there is suffering in the world, and if we have any control over our lives. You give her a long lecture about the ins and outs of consciousness, the perfection of […]

We live in a time of crisis. This is nothing new – we have always lived in a time of crisis. Crisis is simply the passing of form, the falling-away of structures that once – we believe – supported us, and an opening up to newness. It may be a death from one perspective, but […]

“A ‘No’ uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a ‘Yes’ merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble…” – Mahatma Gandhi   There is an intelligence that knows to not keep its hand in a flame. There is no war, no dramatic struggle between the hand and the flame, between right and […]