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Habit Three: Stillness

The guru of stillness was exasperated with his student. The source of this exasperation was essentially that what he was teaching didn’t exist and the student was having a hard time with that. It was more about what wasn’t there than what was. The student couldn’t really handle that; ‘So. What you’re saying is that it is a bit like this? Or like that?’. ‘No, no, not like that! Or this, for that matter. Even a bit!’ He paused and finding depths of compassion and patience asked his student, ‘Are there spaces between your thoughts?’. ‘Well yes’, the student admitted. ‘Then make them bigger’. More ...

Five Small Seeds To Change The World

Great things come in small packages. The full majesty of the tree is contained in the small seed. The essence of something fully developed is there inside, and much more – the promise of further multiplications of fruit that can come from the single seed that is allowed to die, (as Jesus famously said in reference to his own path.) More ...

Experiential Prayer 1: Head Gong

Try this amazing sound experiment of a gong inside your head using a coat hanger and some cotton. You will never have heard anything like it and it’ll never ring the same way twice. And it won’t annoy anyone else as no sound is created outside of your head. More ...

The Seven Habits Of Smiley Spiritual People

What habits lead to healthy, mature spirituality? What can you do, or not do, that will keep you in touch with your soul and enable you to experience more love, joy and peace? Since I have been a whipper snapper I have been interested in spiritual habits and practices, rituals and paths and these seven habits are an attempt to put the most common ingredients, that I’ve noticed, into one recipe. More ...

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