Life can sneak up on all of us. One moment you are in high school dreaming about the pretty girl or cute boy in your science class and imagining a life of success, happiness and maybe wealth or fame. Then one day you wake up when you’re 30 or 40 and you wonder “what the hell happened?” You hate your job, you’re in a relationship that is more of a struggle than a joy, you’ve gained weight, you don’t like...

“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience” ~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Some people define “spirituality” as going to church and believing in a God. Others may define spirituality along the lines of one of the Eastern non-theistic traditions such as Buddhism, Taoism or Hinduism. Others still, may define spirituality simply as becoming a better person, engaging in...

“Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience. It isn’t more complicated than that. It is opening to or receiving the present moment, pleasant or unpleasant, just as it is, without either clinging to it or rejecting it.” ~Sylvia Boorstein   What exactly is mindfulness and where did this simple psychological and spiritual practice get its start? Why is everyone doing it and why are so many doctors recommending it...

“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.” ~ John Muir “True self is non-self, the awareness that the self is made only of non-self elements. There’s no separation between self and other, and everything is interconnected” ~ Nhat Hanh Across most if not all religious, spiritual and mystical traditions, the ultimate state, the supreme realisation, is one...

For the first time in our planet’s history we are witnessing a significant human impact on the Earth’s climate, geology and ecosystems to such an extent that a new geological time-frame has been proposed called the Anthropocene era. We are experiencing increasing levels of (human caused) carbon dioxide in the atmosphere which are higher than they have been at any time in the past 400,000 years! This increase in atmospheric carbon...