Why horses can teach us so much about love
She trotted over to me and stood quietly, untied, while my fingers disappeared into the long, winter-thick fur. I scrubbed out a few patches of dried mud, breaking it into powder. I massaged her back, her neck, her mane, her ears. Checked her feet for stones and her long, feathered heels for bugs and skin [...]
The great spiritual hoax: Do Nothing
The Armchair Guru speaks… One of the most confusing spiritual teachings is the art of when to do nothing and when to do something. In fact if you ask me the word ‘nothing’ is so misunderstood and misquoted that it’s synonymous to a spiritual blanket. It’s a great place to seek cover or to absolve responsibility! [...]
Are you costing yourself happiness?
Have you ever felt that if you could just be happy, then all things would fall into place; you would play a different tune and the world could be seen through rose tinted spectactles? Yeah, so do most other folk, if truth be known. And it’s a shame because it’s really ever so much simpler [...]
A spiritual slap in the face – by a butterfly
I hardly ever go to our local church other than for the usual hatches, matches, and despatches. I have never been religious and usually call myself an agnostic. I probably still do. But two things have happened in my local village church in recent years that have made me think. One was in the summer [...]
Can vision boards be bad for you?
Sarupa Shah, The Soul Agent writes… Vision boards are made of dreams and desires. Seen as an integral tool to the manifestation process by some, created religiously by many – but do they really work? Like many spiritual practices and rituals, vision boards can create the opposite outcome for you. It’s what I call the emperor with [...]
All that jazz – All in A Day
If I sat down and really thought about what I could achieve in a single day, I might be able to come up with some interesting challenges that I think might be possible…. but record a whole album? Well that would probably not be one of them, even if I had the requisite talents. But [...]
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