This earth is the only constant in our lives. It has been here for millions of years before us. It was his gift to unearth its riches; that this human-come-lately is but the latest link in the chain o...
The interplay between farmers and the elements was a poem without words, the echo which would always return to him.The air could hold the breeze of the rain or the wind of warmth to the discerning nos...
The Celtic tradition recognized that anam-ċara friendships were graced with affection. Friendship awakens affection. The heart learns a new art of feeling. Such friendship is neither cerebral nor abst...
Perhaps the art of harvesting the secret riches of our lives is best achieved when we place profound trust in the act of beginning. Risk might be our greatest ally. To live a truly creative life, we a...
P. J. Curtis, the great Irish authority on rhythm and blues music, often says that the search for meaning is really the search for the lost chord. When the lost chord is discovered by humankind, the d...
One of the reasons so many people are suffering from stress is not that they are doing stressful things but that they allow so little time for silence.
May all that is unlived in you blossom into a future graced with love.
For millions of years, an ancient conversation has continued between the chorus of the ocean and the silence of the stone.
Die Wunden des Geistes heilen, ohne dass Narben bleiben...The wounds of the spirit heal and leave no scars.
And when we come to search for God, Let us first be robed in night, Put on the mind of morning To feel the rush of light Spread slowly inside The color and stillness Of a found world.
Anam is the Irish word for soul and Ċara is the word for friend. In the Anam-Ċara friendship, you were joined in an ancient way with the friend of your soul. This was a bond that neither space nor tim...
A friend is a loved one who awakens your life in order to free the wild possibilities within you.
Listening to music renews the heart precisely for this reason: it plumbs the gravity of sorrow until it finds the point of submerged light and lightness. Listening to music stirs the heavy heart; it a...
When you regain a sense of your life as a journey of discovery, you return to rhythm with yourself. When you take the time to travel with reverence, a richer life unfolds before you. Moments of beauty...
When you really love someone, you shine the light of your soul on the beloved. We know from nature that sunlight brings everything to growth. If you look at flowers early on a spring morning, they are...
When you look at some faces, you can see the turbulence of the infinite beginning to gather to the surface. This moment can open in a gaze from a stranger, or in a conversation with someone you know w...
When you have moments on your own or spaces in your time, just focus on the well at the root of your soul. Imagine that nourishing stream of belonging, ease, peace, and delight. Feel, with your visual...
When you find the person you love, an act of ancient recognition brings you together.
The world rests in the night.
TO COME HOME TO YOURSELF May all that is unforgiven in you Be released. May your fears yield Their deepest tranquillities. May all that is unlived in you Blossom into a future Graced with love.