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Words of Wisdom

“As I began to love myself I found that anguish and emotional suffering are only warning signs that I was living against my own truth. Today, I know, this is ‘AUTHENTICITY’.” …..from Charlie Chaplin’s,...

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Tip for the day: Complain or Inspire, we choose.

When I complain a lot I tend to attract even more things to complain about. The secret? Park all complaints. The Heart never judges. Focus, instead, on what you’re passionate about; that which inspires...

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Of Winter Solstice

Winter Solstice at Newgrange Cold and dark the earth awaits new beginnings, a world receptive and yielding to the increasing light of day as Mother Earth yearns to fill her empty womb with mistletoes’...

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Epistle II, Extract by Alexander Pope

Thank you Clare Flourish for introducing this profound poem to me, about the nature of man. Image sourced from Lancashire University. “Know then thyself, presume not God to scan,  The proper study of...

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Love Saves

Love saves. Trouble haunts the head not the heart. I acknowledge my love. I let it be, unfettered. I place my trust completely in it. I let it shine, Safely in my heart. As I do you.   Image from the...

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The Original Meaning of Valentine’s Day

The ancients celebrated Valentine’s Day to acknowledge the wakening of the seed in hu-man. Deep within the ground, unable to see the light (above the surface) ahead, surrounded in darkness, the seed...

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Love your Bubble of Fear

Allow your fear into your consciousness. Place it in a bubble. Neither attempt to hold the bubble nor prod it. Let the bubble float freely. Surround the bubble skin with love. Be patient. Wait for...

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Your Inner Child Has a Message…..

By listening carefully to the voice of your inner child, you develop your intuition. You tune into its messages. Call it “intunition.” At the same time, you become aware of the feeling when you veer...

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2012 – The Return to Oneness

The Return “Enough! I’ve had enough of winning and losing. I can only exert a limited amount of power. I can only spend a limited amount of money. I can only create so much suffering before I kill off...

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Beowulf: Warrior, Magician & Therapist

Written some 1500 years ago, by an anonymous bard, Beowulf tells the story of a gallant hero who travels north to Denmark to slay the swamp beast, Grendel. (Image: first page of Beowulf manuscript)...

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The Game of Life

Extract from Quick Guide IV – A Scorecard that Accounts for Mindfulness in Business. Adapted from Druid wisdom (ref: Light and Life, a series of booklets written by David Loxley, Chief Druid, The Druid...

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A Meditation on Unrequited Love

Love is Not-love Until… The battles I have fought to have you choose love. I have mustered the elements in vain. With swords, wands and wealth, I hold out the chalice of love to seal our bond. Yet I...

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Magic is…

…Something created out of nothing, the nothingness created from having no fear. When you release all your fear, all that remains is joy and wellbeing. Can there be anything more magical to life than...

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Full Moon in Gemini – 17 December 2013

Should I stay or should I go? At about 9.36am GMT  there’s a full Moon in Gemini. Reflect, especially over the last two weeks, on all the things over which you have mixed emotions, and in Gemini, leave...

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Paradise Is An Inside Job.

Who’s fooling whom? Judge not the paradise of fools. For their paradise is not yours. Even if only a fool would find joy there. Let them step naively (knavely). Let your and their joy be one. (Inspired...

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St Valentine’s Full Moon in Leo

Tonight you have the opportunity to cross the bridge to your inner world and see your true emotions. Bathe in the essence of who you really are, knowing that the darkness contains nothing (to fear)...

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Love is Not-love Until… (A Magician I Should Turn To Be)

from http://wallpaperswide.com Love is Not-love Until… The battles I have fought to have you choose love. I have mustered the elements in vain. With swords, wands and wealth, I hold out the chalice of...

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The War Between Not-love (Fear) and Love

A part-extract from my latest book: For The Love of Lilith & How to Put Love into Practice (and Non-attach Yourself to It), Quick Guides to Ancient Wisdom, No 1, Parts I & II “In the beginning...

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Mindfulness – Wakening to the Framework of What-Is and What-Is-Not, The Law...

(The Foreword to my forthcoming booklet, The Threefold Death – Mindfulness: Wakening to the Law of Reversibility) Image courtesy of interestingcreativedesigns The Law of Reversibility Situations...

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Winter Solstice 2015

The seed dies into the ground. We see the sun rise and set at its deepest, most southerly point of the eliptic perspective we have of its journey around the heavens. But we forget… It’s we who move...

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