This latest recording of a dialogue between myself and Sophie Stephenson was a thoroughly joyful roller-coaster ride that took us from...

"Gratitude will be the doorstep that keeps the door to your heart open. Peace and humility will be its gatekeeper. Cherish your heart,...

"To live is the rarest thing in the world.  Most people exist, that is all."- Oscar Wilde   I often find myself musing, with amazement,...

There’s an awful a lot of personal development involved when you practice The Thinking Environment.  We’ve already talked about, in other...

One of the delicious challenges of being a TE teacher is thinking about and talking about the bits that you can’t actually teach! This is...

"Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving."- Kahlil Gibran   I'm thinking of trying this out.  I am...

"The flower is always the bud’s undoing. Let go then."-  Pavithra K.Mehta  If I knew that I would never see a full-blown rose, or the...

At the tail end of July we lost one of our fur babies.  I know there are far more inconsolable losses to suffer than this one, and yet –...

In this third video in the series of Dialogues between myself and Sophie Stephenson , we explore the continuum between doing and being...

All my life, since childhood, I have known a particular type of transpersonal grief. It is different to personal grief.  And whenever I...

Dear Brave-Hearted Reader, I wonder which human emotion you would say you find the least easy to be with?  For me, it’s a see-saw between...

I’m often struck by the tone of absolute certainty with which I hear people pronounce predictions of the future, often steeped in doom...

I think another interesting aspect of this topic of managing the second stream of attention, (in other words, your own internal...

Naomi Shihab Nye’s eyes on the world seem to me able to see through the veil – looking past the obvious, tangible stuff to the underlying...

Hot on the heels of May’s newsletter comes June’s – I want to get back on track to having the newsletter arrive on a month’s first...

"Drawing on my fine command of the language, I said nothing." ~ Ian MacLaren My dear BraveHeart, isn’t this marvellous? I like my life...

It isn’t the first time, and it almost certainly won’t be the last, that I sit down to write my monthly newsletter burdened with a...

This reminds me of the famous couplet from Goethe: “whatever you can do, or dream you can – begin it!  Boldness has genius, power and...

One of the great joys of my life – that of teaching people to be thinking partners – is an expression, I feel, of this quote from Barbara...

I love this quote for its thought-provoking impact.  It is not up to others, or outside circumstances, to protect us and make us feel...