Often a person’s identity, that wild inner complexity of soul and colour of spirit, becomes shrunken into their work identity. They become prisoners of their role. They limit and reduce their lives. They become seduced by the practice of self-absence. They move further and further away from their own lives. They are forced backwards into hidden are

When you live in the silence and solitude of the land, cities seem startling.

Two people who love each other should never feel called to explain to an outside party why they love each other, or why it is that they belong together. The place where they belong is a secret place. Their souls know why they are together; and they should trust that togetherness.

At other times, you will find sorrow moving through you, like a dark mist over a landscape. This sorrow is dark enough to paralyse you.

One of the essential aspects of beginning to reimagine the workplace is to awaken the ability to welcome that which is difficult and awkward.

Your death can be a wonderfully creative event opening you up to embrace the divine that always lived secretly inside you.

This growth causes pain but it is a sacred pain. It would be much more tragic to have cautiously avoided these depths and remained marooned on the shiny surfaces of the banal.

another. It is interesting that the word revelation comes from re-valere, literally, to veil again. The world of the soul is glimpsed through the opening in a veil which closes again.

To look at something that can gaze back at you, or that has a reserve and depth, can heal your eyes and deepen your sense of vision.