Finding peace

Find inner peace in your own pure presence

Soon after the Germans began bombing London in 1940, I was evacuated, like many London children, to the safety of the countryside. I was sent to live with my Aunt Eva, who lived at the end of a country lane near a tiny hamlet called Yelland Cross in North Devon. I didn’t really know my [...]

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A moment of magic on a park bench

Little moments tend to be underrated in our society. We fantasize about “big” moments still to come that will surely bring us happiness and fulfillment — but it is often the little moments that really have power to change or bless our lives. The touch of the divine Many years ago, as a young man, [...]

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How fear can open a door to wholeness

“When there is an openness to fear, where can it be found? What a strange creature fear is. It exists only when there is resistance to its existence! When you stop and open to what you have resisted throughout time, you find that fear is not fear. Fear is energy. Fear is space. Fear [...]

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Hang in there and trust

Are the winds of change blowing more strongly in your life? They sure seem to be blowing more strongly in my life. But there is one thing that isn’t changing at all — and that is the balance that undergirds this universe of love. Life loves balance. It loves to get busy, and move, and [...]

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What is your deepest longing?

What is your deepest longing? One of the reasons I’m so grateful for the privilege of aging is that it has given — and continues to give — more space and time to let my own deepest longing be fulfilled, and enjoyed. And made new. I’m a slow learner, I guess. “Better late than never,” [...]

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Are we really alone?

I was alone, eating supper on a cold winter’s evening 300 miles north of Vancouver, British Columbia. It was cold and cheerless outside, and it was cold and cheerless inside — in my heart, and in my home. My wife, Joy, to whom I had been married 25 years, had died suddenly a month or [...]

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9 steps to a new life

I had a touching message yesterday from a reader of this blog whose life is being turned upside down by a nasty divorce that also affects a number of children. “I’m having a difficult time dealing with the rejection and being all alone in an empty apartment with my clothes and laptop,” says this man. [...]

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Love your own unconquerable spirit — and be free

“Don’t look to the world for a sense of importance — look within, to your own being.” (This was #9 in a post I wrote last week entitled “100 steps to grace for 2011.”) For many years I not only wanted to find the truth of life. I also wanted to be a successful author, because [...]

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What’s in store for you in 2011?

“Discover your own undying Self, and be immortal and happy.” — Ramana Maharshi A New Year coming up. 2011. What do I want to do with this New Year? How do I want my life to be spent in 2011? What do you want to do in 2011? What are your goals, resolutions? I [...]

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