Stillness in snow

Have you ever wondered what is so calming about snow. The blanket of white bring with it a sense of uniformity and stillness. The quite peace creates so much tranquil. The rounding of the sharp edges, the softness of the falling snow, the silence in the air, oh so blissfull. It almost takes the edge of life....

Eckhart the genius

I finally got round to reading Eckhart’s New Earth. What a masterpiece. I have only finished the third chapter so far but his is the best explaination on ego and soul that I have found, understand and can relate to. The best thing I can quote from the book is about the ego and the awareness of the...

Happiness a state of mind

A theory goes that if you smile then you will start to feel cheerful. Then there is a theory that states that you can only feel like smile if you feel like smiling. I have often wondered if being happy is something that most people want. And if they really want it, what prevents them from getting to that...

God will sit this one out

Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7964880.stm The article reads “God will not intervene to prevent humanity from wreaking disastrous damage to the environment, the Archbishop of Canterbury has warned.” Read more… I think that we as a humanity have chosen the path that we have put...

How quickly we judge

I was driving home today and it was dark. At the roundabout, there was somebody cutting into my lane and I was watching this car in my rear view mirror on the left as I was coming out of the roundabout. Straight after the roundabout a car was parked on the road. The car was parked incorrectly and I was...

Prayer revisited

I have blogged about this topic before however it is not closed in my mind and the feedback from Amrit did not complete it either. That prayer is a vibration in the universal consciousness is only partly true. “Prayer is the synchronised, harmonious and intelligent function of the mind specifically...

Understanding the ego

Ego according to a definition found on the Princeton Univ website is “self: your consciousness of your own identity”. This is what Wikipedia has to say about ego. And the wikipedia definition is what I have come to believe in time. Understanding the ego is far more complex than it first seems and...

Evolution and Religion

One of the things that have been reading about or rather more appropriately watching videos about is the Charles Darwin / Richard Dawkins school of thought on evolution. I think the theory of evolution is easy to go along with. Our earth and the species have evolved no doubt but does that neccessarily give...