Soul Speaking is a weekly session I run in the Silver Branch, hosted by The Walled Garden Philosophical Society. Today in Soul Speaking we spoke about the inescapable phenomenon of having a dual perspective on Life and as a life. Here are some thoughts about how we stand in the
Following on from our exploration of an idea from two weeks ago, the notion of the necessary tension opposites visits us again by way of the Solstice. In the northern hemisphere half of us are preparing to step into the light half of the year while the rest of us
Our first Soul Speaking gathering in the Silver Branch grove seemed to centre around a quote from Rilke about the nature of duality and paradox so inherent to life and the human experience.
Join me for the Inaugural season of The Silver Branch, themed “BREAKTHROUGH: Finding and Following the Way, your way, amidst Overwhelm.”
Exploring the timeless craft of storytelling, highlighting the role of stories in shaping our sense of meaning and belonging both to our past and the unfolding future and reorienting us to the cosmos and our place in it.
A short poem capturing the essence of self-leadership and the nuanced journey towards personal authenticity and acceptance.
A powerfully disarming reflection on the wisdom of grace and equanimity, and the possibility of prayer, for those of us not inclined toward Religion—holding the door open to the possibility that our lives are happening for us, not to us.
There is no greater treasure than to be loved truly for who you truly are. And to be thus loved for who you truly are, one of course has to have the courage to be vulnerable enough to let people see who you really are.
The poems and encouragements in Stepping Through, a village of voices, meet the reader in the spirit of guidance and companionship along the journey of necessary threshing, about Love and Life and how we navigate our sense of belonging and purpose as our certainty and self-belief waxes and wanes through
we imagine all along,
that our lives and our circumstances
conspire to undo us,
when in fact,
they conspire to help us in every way, to become.
“The secret of tension is transformation.”