Category Archives: The Silent Eye

The perfect teacher?

Posted on January 5, 2020 by Sue Vincent

When the student is ready, the master will appear. This saying is often quoted both by and to those who walk a spiritual path. All too frequently, it is said with the kind of supercilious air that implies that the … Continue reading →

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Keys of Heaven (7): the path to gentle darkness ~ Steve Tanham

Posted on January 2, 2020 by Sue Vincent

The tiny fishing village of Staithes is a place of peaceful beauty. It lies part way between Whitby and Saltburn on the North Yorkshire coast. It’s geography is also one of the few breaks in the vast cliffs that define … Continue reading →

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Light and shade

Posted on December 31, 2019 by Sue Vincent

The road home was flooded by brilliant winter sunlight, criss-crossed with the deep, dark shadows of the trees. The light and shade fell upon me through the glass roof of the car as I drove, setting reality a-flicker like an … Continue reading →

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Whitby Weekend: Lastingham’s Holy Wells

Posted on December 30, 2019 by Sue Vincent

The weekend was almost over, but before we reached a parting of the ways, there was lunch in the seventeenth century Blacksmith’s Arms opposite the church and a wander around the village of Lastingham to visit the holy wells. The … Continue reading →

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Whitby Weekend: The Crypt at Lastingham

Posted on December 29, 2019 by Sue Vincent

A few of us made our way down the stone steps of St Mary’s in Lastingham, into the crypt where the bones of St Cedd are reputedly buried. To do so is to step back in history and be outside … Continue reading →

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Whitby Weekend: The church at Lastingham

Posted on December 28, 2019 by Sue Vincent

It was only a few miles to the final destination of the Silent Eye’s weekend in North Yorkshire. We were heading for St Mary’s church at Lastingham, the final resting place, or so it is believed, of St Cedd, who … Continue reading →

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Whitby Weekend: Moorland stone…

Posted on December 27, 2019 by Sue Vincent

On the Sunday morning, we met at the Lion Inn, perched some thirteen hundred feet above sea level and high on the North Yorkshire moors. The sixteenth-century inn is an isolated spot above Rosedale, in an area fair littered with … Continue reading →

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Whitby Weekend: Tail of the unexpected…

Posted on December 24, 2019 by Sue Vincent

It was dark, but not late, as we drove at a leisurely pace back into Whitby, expecting the streets to be as quiet as the previous night. As we approached the bridge, though, a drumbeat began… and at, the same … Continue reading →

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Whitby Weekend: A quiet hour

Posted on December 23, 2019 by Sue Vincent

It is rare, on one of our workshop weekends, to get a moment to yourself outside of your room. There is so much to do and any free time is generally spent catching up with people you too seldom see. … Continue reading →

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Whitby Weekend: St Hilda’s Well

Posted on December 22, 2019 by Sue Vincent

I dropped my companions at the next stop, the tiny, hidden hamlet of Part Mulgrave. They were to walk along the clifftops for a couple of miles… a walk I would have loved under normal circumstances… but once again, I … Continue reading →

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