Soul Lights

This week I received a delightful email sharing  one person’s vision for 2017…… In part it read……. Sell everything/ give some things away…………Buy a motor home………..Travel around Australia………Make a documentary of our journey Be totally free to take all the time that’s needed……….Explore and be creative in our endeavours………..Paint to my hearts desire Share all

10 years ago I sent out a mantra which many of you used to wonderful effect. It has become, for some of you, your message to the world. I encourage you all to adopt it. I AM LOVE AND LOVE IS ALL I NEED TO GIVE TO ALL I MEET AND ALL I DO One

It’s almost time to welcome in 2017! And it’s already starting to burst with opportunities! Can you feeeeel them? Can you see them? Are you excited? What plans are you making to create this new year as your most awesome yet? Maybe to become an artist? Or fly a plane? Visit China? Possibly write a

This is the time of the year when Christians celebrate the birth of Jesus; and others celebrate that sense of family which binds us together. One way or another, we celebrate that sense of ‘belonging’ which is so vital for a healthy life. For Christians it’s belonging to the family of Jesus, for others it’s

Do you ever get annoyed when life’s twists and turns get in the way of your spiritual practice? It could be anything that drags us away from our sense of inner equilibrium….. a dog that is incessantly barking….. cars ‘hooning’ along the road…… planes flying close overhead…… neighbours shouting loudly to one another….. people smoking

I’d like to share with you another simple exercise I have been sharing with guests to Heartland. It’s the easy path to effective meditating…… Firstly, understand that you don’t have to get rid of your thoughts to meditate! You just have to ignore your thoughts! You do this by using your brain to focus on

This is the single, most important question anyone can ever ask themselves. Through earnest contemplation of this question can every concern of life be resolved. Through earnest listening to the answers we find can we achieve freedom and consciousness. Through earnest attention to carrying out the replies we receive can we find Sublime Love, our

For those of you who cannot understand why Facebook exists, let me help. Imagine trying to make friends by applying the same principle as Facebook uses….. Every day you walk down the street and tell total strangers what you have eaten, how you feel at the moment, what you did the night before, what you

Do you enjoy a regular regime of spiritual Affirmations? Affirmations are one of the easiest ways to change one’s way of thinking. That’s because they work rather like a mantra…….we use the power of affirming to bring our spiritual desires into our existence. So the more we express those desires, the more we align our

I walked around the large circle of people. Suddenly I stopped in front of a woman and looked deeply into her eyes. “Do you know you are loved by the Universe?” I gently asked her. “I don’t always feel it,” she softly answered. “Often I feel useless or worthless.” “Please give me your hand,” I

Trudi and I were walking through the orchard the other day when I was reminded of the trust which we had been given. We had been entrusted with a secret. And also with a sacred space. As trustees we ultimately own neither but accept responsibility for the care of both. The secret is that the

The world is a big place. The universe is even bigger. As an example, if the universe was the size of Planet Earth then planet earth would be one billionth the size of a pinhead! That’s around one millionth the size of a grain of sand……or about the size of an atom. Our personal galaxy

Thanks to everyone who felt the urge to respond to my latest article (Vote 1: Sanity). I am sure that humans are AWAKENING to consciousness. That means making up their own minds, not simply functioning from instinctive herd mentality as is still the case with most animals. As humans awake, they express the love and

Some people may find this article (which I originally wrote in 2012) controversial – it may not be what you expect from a spiritual writer. And yet, politics and social comment are just as relevant in spirituality as are discussions regarding personal values and actions. All of life is spiritual. All of life is Spirit,

Last week I took our fifteen guests down to the ocean to feed the wild dolphins, as usual. On the way back to the retreat I stopped at the park overlooking Tin Can Bay for 10 minutes of exercise open-to-the-sky. And then it happened. All fifteen people wanted to go play on the swings and

In my last articles, I wrote about our Real Soul – and I said that our Real Souls are always alive. Because they are alive, we live. It is our Real Soul which is made by, of and in the image of God. Our Real Soul is a perfect image of the Divine. I also

In my last article, I wrote about our Real Soul – and I said that our Real Souls are always alive. Because they are alive, we live. It is our Real Soul which is made by, of and in the image of God. Our Real Soul is a perfect image of the Divine. But we

We each have a Real Soul. This is that shining light which is a perfect aspect of the Divine. Always with us, it watches what we do, records what happens and guides us if we’ll stop and listen to it. It is always safe, always healthy, always happy and always alive, no matter what happens.

In a world where nothing goes perfect for any of us most of the time…..who is running your life? Is it the Real You – or is it your ego? Your genitals? Your bank manager? Your boss? Your church? The law? The in-laws? A medical prescription? Who makes the decisions? Is it the Real You

In this current series I am writing to help us step more confidently into a state of ‘authentic and ethical living’ I believe it is critically important that we consciously honour all the people who have helped us throughout our life to get to where we are right now. This belief is based on that