True happiness is experienced in the present moment, not in the past nor in the future.
Even if we look forward with pleasure to some future event, that pleasure is experienced now, not in the...
Helen Keller – The Powers Within
The powers that are available to a human being, the powers of thought, decision, love and will, are glorious in nature and limitless in effect. It is easy to take them for granted or to use them...
Julian of Norwich & Revelations of Divine Love
Julian of Norwich, who lived from 1342 to 1416. She is the first writer in English who can be certainly identified as a woman. In 1378, when seriously ill and apparently dying, she received an...
Marcus Aurelius & Gratitude
Pure love can be described as which is untainted by selfishness and which is unrestricted by any sense of limit. This is a high ideal but not necessarily easy to achieve in practice. It is...
Purohit Swami
Purohit Swami was born in India in 1882. In 1931 he visited England and met the Irish poet W.B. Yeats. The outcome of that meeting and the friendship that ensued were the translations of the Gita...
Marsilio Ficino
Marsilio Ficino was one of the great figures of the fifteenth century renaissance. His work and ideas brought about a deep and lasting change in Europeansociety. From him and his Academy the...
Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) wrote an essay entitled ‘Where I Lived, and What I Lived For’
He was born in Massachusetts, America, in 1817. He was a writer and poet and a friend of Ralph...
Jacques Lusseyran & the power of attention
The power of attention is one of the greatest powers that is available to us in the present moment.
To illustrate this, there is a remarkable story about a Frenchman called Jacques Lusseyran....
Vivekananda & Attention
Sri Ramakrishna had a famous disciple called Vivekananda. In an address in 1900 Vivekananda said this:
One of the greatest lessons I have learnt in my life is to pay as much attention to the...
Mozart and the power of a still mind
When the mind is clear and at rest and the observation is full and free, it is possible to connect with deeper powers within oneself.
The clutter of ideas, impressions, likes and dislikes,...