Calliope
Again and again I’ve taken quick glances and then for some reason I’ve got to sit before a picture, waiting….. and it’s opened up like one of those Japanese flowers that you put in water and something I thought wasn’t worth more than a casual glance begins to open up depth after depth of meaning! ...
Gotama
Vocation to solitude: To deliver oneself up, to hand oneself over, to entrust oneself completely to the silence of a wide landscape of woods and hills, or sea, or desert; to sit still while the sun comes up over the land and fills its silences with light. To pray and work in the morning and...
Secret Nature
Let us listen to the sounds of our own voices, of our own names, of our own fears. Let us name the harsh light and soft darkness that surround us… The world is big, and wide, and wild and wonderful and wicked,and our lives are murky, magnificent, malleable and full of meaning. Pádraig Ó Tuama...
Eternal Cycle
Breathe in serenity,Exhale peace and contentment …Then Silencewill gather all the worlds within itself,the waves will return to the oceanof eternity.And every word that has been spokenabout peace and lovewill be recognised like a bright lightby the spirit that has come to rest. Marcel Messing
Silence Blooms
The practice of paying attention is the rarest of gifts because it depends upon the harshest of disciplines. So uncommon is it for us to grasp the beauty and mystery of ordinary things that, when we finally do so, it often brings us to the verge of tears. Appalled by our own poverty, we awake...
Mystero Vivente
If we can stay in touch with ourselves, if we can find the connection to our deeper selves, we can find this deeper level of hope that truly should be called imagination… in the depths of each person there is a greater self and a core imagination that is truly the source of one’s life....
The Radiance
Far from light emerging gradually out of the womb of our darkness, it is the Light, existing before all else was made which, patiently, surely, eliminates our darkness. As for creatures, of ourselves, we are but emptiness and obscurity. . . . Radiant Word, Blazing Power . . . reach us simultaneously through all that...
Return to Innocence
Women are spinners and weavers; we are the ones who spin the threads and weave them into meaning and pattern. Like silkworms, we create those threads out of our own substance, pulling the strong, fine fibres out of our own hearts and wombs. It’s time to make some new threads; time to strengthen the frayed...
Terra
A hundred years ago we lived in a world devoid of chemical impact. There were no “food allergies” Or “cancers”, nor were people medicated pharmaceutically. In the first World War we saw the introduction of both atomic weapons and chemical processes within the food and water chain that we had never seen before, such as...
Michael’s Truth
“At that time Michael, the great prince who protects your people, will arise. There will be a time of distress such as has not happened from the beginning of nations until then. But at that time your people – everyone whose name is found written in the book – will be delivered.” Daniel 12:1 St....
Porta Luminis
We are called in this life to attend a changing landscape, both outwardly and inwardly. So the deeper lesson is that adapting to the flow of life is more than reacting to things that just seem to happen. It requires our continual attention and movement with the life around us, the way underwater sea grass...
Altered States
I’ve learned to love and to trust the Mystery not needing to know the future. I no longer take Grace for granted — it is pure gift. . . . My essential course of action is simply to be in the Eternal Now, ready to follow the small, still voice heard in the Silence. Nan...