In the Fire of Life

I invite you into the fire of life where the light burns so brightly on all that is.   The uncomfortable and unfathomable truth and rawness of this moment is inescapable and unyielding leaving no choice but to surrender.   The fire burns bright tonight and with this the ground shifts beneath your feet.   The stability that felt…

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Find Your Biggest Fear

find your biggest fear and make friends with it   get to know its nature its form its depth its layers its seeming binds   let awareness penetrate and light up the corners of your existence so that the shadows have nowhere left to hide

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The Vast Patience of the Heart

Patience is not just a practice to be kept. Patience is not just an effort to be continuously made. True patience comes naturally and spontaneously when you are impregnated fully with love.   That love which fills every corner of your heart. That love that knows no bounds, no time limits, no conditions, no end.   That love is…

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Some Thoughts on Politics this Xmas

While faith has a political dimension Party politics is deeply divisive The faithful of whatever stripe Must cleanse their hearts of such division Individually we must include the ‘other’ Warts and all If our hearts are filled with self-righteousness And moral certainty Of the kind that condemns the other That abandons the other As fallen And unworthy Of love…

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When You Find a Friend

When you find a friend where there is no pretence, no mask, no holding back. A friend that you can laugh and cry and shout and be with no matter what flavour of you is shining through. A friend who can see you at your messiest but still see your beauty and your love. A friend who is a…

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Scars

I wear my scars not like armour that I'm proud of or a badge of honour that I boast about, but as acknowledgement and reverence for what I have experienced. For the lessons I have learnt and as a reminder of what I have gone through. I'm neither proud or not proud. They depict the humbling life showed me.…

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The Sweetness of an Open Heart

There are none so bright and full of love than those that have allowed life to penetrate them fully. Cracked open so immensely and felt so deeply the depth and breadth of their experiencing. Leaving no stone unturned, no shadow unseen, no feeling unmet. Those that have surrendered so tenderly to the acknowledgement that they know nothing. That they…

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Pick Yourself Up, Dust Yourself Off

Sometimes life brings you to your knees. Floors you with it's strong wisdom. Shows you where the shadows still lie. Where the aspects of yourself are that still go unmet.   It's a calling that when ignored screams and kicks and shouts to be seen, to be heard.   It's a gut punch of a moment one that takes…

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The Head or The Heart

There’s a constant exploration of life that is immediate. To listen to your body, your physical response to life, your intuitive knowingness. The pull towards yes or no. Not on an intellectual level, but on a physical level  of what’s right or wrong for you in that moment. And we are conditioned to override this all the time. There’s…

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Not a Safe Space

This is not a safe space. I am not a safe space.   If safe space to you means that you will not be challenged, and that you cannot challenge me, then I am not a safe space.   I want to fully lean into life, have no stone unturned. No sacred cows that cannot be found.   To…

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Walking in Old Wounds

Here I am again, holding space for the palpitating panic that I’m experiencing. Giving it the space to roam free. A safe, embracing, loving space of not trying to fix it. A shaky space of unknowing. The need to fix, to help, to soothe, to solve, taps into my deepest struggle of a core wound. It still comes up,…

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My Heart Hurts Today

My heart hurts today. The loss of a loved one is never easy. Tender, broken and so wide open. So full of love, so beautiful. The waves of emotions, energies and memories break over me when least expected. Life is a precious thing, but so is death. Death brings up so much to the surface The unavoidable mirror of…

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The Way

I'll show you the Way but will you follow? The Way is no wayThe Way is silence and surrenderThe Way is no effortThe Way is ‘stop!’The Way is just thisThe Way is no more seeking Can you see the Way?Can you accept the Way?Or will you reject it? Wherever you plant your foot is the WayWherever your eye lands…

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Dig Deep

In those moment when you can't see a way forward through the darkness and confusion, breathe all the way through to the ends of you fingers and toes. Notice your aliveness, your awareness of that aliveness. Don’t be afraid of the shadows in the dark night of your soul. Embrace that darkness, lean into it. Bring the light of…

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Getting It

The dichotomy dissolves Of subject and object Spiritual knowledge goes Spiritual persona goes Just this Whatever is happening Is it Doubt Is it Mental discussions About how this can’t be it Is it You can’t turn anywhere Touch anything Hear anything Feel, taste Without it being it There’s nothing that isn’t it And there’s nothing that can happen That…

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Just a Poem

I don’t really notice much Outside Because everything that happens Happens in me Of me The flowers bloom In me The wind blows In me The hills roll and rise In me Like my bones And my blood And my breath All in me As if my body Were the universe itself And my breath The wind And the stars Rejoice in my body –…

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Nothing

There’s nothing to do Nothing to think Nothing to drop Nothing to see Nothing to follow There’s no plan No strategy There’s nothing to believe Nothing to hold on to And nothing to let go of There’s nothing to hope for No future to come No past to understand There’s no right And no wrong No bad And no…

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