Falling passionately in love with life We are made for loving. If we don’t love, we will be like plants without water. Archbishop Desmond Tutu My very earliest memories are of love. Of loving everything around me. Everything that grows, moves, breathes. Trees,...
Whale Songs and Deep Listening The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature. Joseph Campbell, mythologist My last conscious memory last night was of embracing my tiredness and gratefully drifting off to...
Taking a Giant Leap of Faith News has reached us that the Findhorn Foundation spiritual education centre in the north of Scotland – which inspired the creation of Odyssey Magazine – is proposing to close his doors. Former resident Geoff Dalglish and...
Listening to the heartbeat of the Divine ‘The candles are many, but the light is one.’ Rumi What’s not to love? I’m resident on Iona, the sacred isle off the west coast of Scotland, where the heartbeat of the island is measured in the ebb and flow of the tides, the...
Living Intentionally in an Ecovillage ‘We regard our living together not as an unfortunate mishap warranting endless competition among us, but as a deliberate act of God to make us a community of brothers and sisters jointly involved in the quest for a composite...