Tag Archives: consciousness

Filling the cup

Posted on January 26, 2020 by Sue Vincent

Poised to write, I leafed through the notes scrawled on my pad. I remembered the conversation and context… it was worth writing about. Given the sketchy nature of what I had written, it was a minute or two before I … Continue reading →

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Looking for answers…

Posted on January 14, 2020 by Sue Vincent

It wasn’t a dark and stormy night… this book that lies open on my desk begins with a rather less evocative phrase. More mundane and far less atmospheric…though the writer who had penned them both was the same. I’ve never … Continue reading →

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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 to Heaven: Sobriety… Stuart France

Posted on December 15, 2019 by Sue Vincent

* With our third term, ‘sobriety’, we start to rise… By accepting the control we attempted to impose on the world in our ‘planning’ and singularly failed to exert upon ourself in ‘gluttony’. * Roads of excess can lead to … Continue reading →

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Keys of Heaven (1): Cod and Lobster ~ Steve Tanham

Posted on December 10, 2019 by Sue Vincent

Above: approaching Staithes’ wonderful Cod and Lobster pub Bright against the icy darkness, the Christmas lights of the Cod and Lobster pub greet the quiet sound of only two sets of winter boots, where, until a few hours ago, there … Continue reading →

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Fire From Heaven

Posted on December 10, 2019 by Sue Vincent

There was supposed to be a meteor shower. The moon would not be bright enough to drown the display of cascading stars with its light and the skies over the village are but gently lit. The light pollution here is … Continue reading →

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Here and Now

Posted on December 8, 2019 by Sue Vincent

The problem with living in a downstairs flat is that there is no upstairs. This may sound obvious, but when you have lived in a house almost all your life, with an upstairs, you tend to forget. Many times I … Continue reading →

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What if you were wrong?

Posted on December 3, 2019 by Sue Vincent

I was thinking about a discussion I had enjoyed with a friend, about how our upbringing colours our worlds more than we realise. Both cultural and personal influences shape the images that imprint themselves upon the mind of the child … Continue reading →

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Time traveller

Posted on December 1, 2019 by Sue Vincent

As the first lightening of the sky separates silhouettes from the blackness, the temperature plummets and cold floods my body. I can feel its bite and the reactive crisping of muscle and sinew as I huddle into my coat and … Continue reading →

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Cycles of Light (1) ~ Steve Tanham

Posted on November 28, 2019 by Sue Vincent

Have you ever considered how strange our week is? By this, I mean we get to the end of its seven days and fall off into an infinity of named celestial objects like Gemmda5, Godiano554, Artuix Sunburst and on, and … Continue reading →

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