Born in New York City, Pema Chödrön is a Buddhist nun and author of many popular spiritual books and courses. She is also a mother and a grandmother and has two children. Pena discovered Buddhism after two failed marriages, and when her children were teenagers she ordained to become a nun. Her broad spectrum of…Read More

This post was originally written on Facebook by a beautiful young woman named Holly Butcher. She wrote it before she lost her battle with Ewing’s sarcoma, a rare form of cancer. Holly was 27-years-old when she passed away. Her last letter is a stark reminder of just how precious life is, how much we take for granted,…Read More

It’s strange, how life’s events come and go… You look forward to a holiday: booking the hotel, planning what to take, researching the local area, imagining what it will be like. It seems to take ages to come around; and then it’s over – just like that. It was the same when I was a…Read More

I was sitting in my working when I heard high-pitched screeching from outside the window. I looked up and saw five or more magpies sitting on the roof squawking away. They’d take it in turns to fly off and come back again, all the while still going crazy. I had no idea why they were…Read More

Spirituality isn’t an easy thing to define, primarily because it is an inner personal pathway that most of us would describe differently, albeit with some common factors, I’m sure. When independent of a religious group, spirituality is perceived as somewhat ambiguous. It is a common thing to hear someone say, “I’m not religious, but consider…Read More

To sell you something, an astute marketer will always make you feel as if you are missing out.  You are not as slim as others, you are not as happy as others, you are not as cool as others, you are not as beautiful as others, you are not intelligent as others, you are not…Read More

The easiest way to explain living in the present is to start by explaining what it means to not be present, since this is the state we have become habitually used to. When you aren’t being present you become a victim of time. Your mind is pulled into the past or the future, or both.…Read More

We all have those days when we get to the end of our tether with life: your partner doesn’t appreciate you, your job sucks, bills keep going up, friends are being awkward, life is unfair and you just can’t get a break. And to top it all off, you’re tired as hell! And just when you are on…Read More

We all have the mind of a monkey. This analogy, slightly humorous though it may be, is actually quite salient. Consider that we humans have around fifty thousand separate thoughts each day, many of them on the same topic. You might imagine that each thought is a branch, and you, or at least the attention…Read More

We’ve all been there. In fact, most of us go there at least once a week. You find yourself knee-deep and stressed in work you wish you’d never taken on. Whether it’s a project or task you’ve been given at the office, or whether you’ve promised someone you’d do something for them and don’t want…Read More