Tag Archives: spirituality

A contract with wonder

Posted on February 2, 2020 by Sue Vincent

The glamorous sky seems an incongruous backdrop for mundane chimneypots and washing lines. Veiled by the pallid grey of low cloud or with a symphony of shades, the sun rises over the fields, painting the morning with impossible colour, every … Continue reading →

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Hill-of-the-Buried-Sun…

Posted on January 31, 2020 by Sue Vincent

* …It was, after all, rather disconcerting to be thus accosted by a total stranger… * “Does this count?” he demanded, ferociously, and pushed an admittedly intriguing photograph across the bar at us. “Does that count as what?” * “One … Continue reading →

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Voices in the Mist (1) ~ Steve Tanham

Posted on January 30, 2020 by Sue Vincent

We had never been to the First World War monuments and graves in northern France. As a young man, I considered them part of a national mindset that glorified war. But, over the decades, that view was moderated and I … Continue reading →

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Listen to the Birds ~ Jeff Grant

Posted on January 22, 2020 by Sue Vincent

Reblogged from besonian: I will remember the December just gone as having been mostly grey and grim. And wet. On many days, in the little park below my kitchen window, the leaden skies seemed to hang so low they could … Continue reading →

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A New Beginning…

Posted on January 21, 2020 by Sue Vincent

Since the birth of the Silent Eye, we have held regular workshops, including, for the past seven years, an annual residential weekend of ritual drama in Derbyshire. We have had a huge amount of fun with these weekends over the … 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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An offering ~ Suzanne #writephoto

Posted on December 28, 2019 by Sue Vincent

a healing balm of liquid light coming in waves pulsating dissolving old forms freeing stuck energy releasing old burdens   Continue reading at  Being in Nature

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Keys of Heaven (4) – through the bones of the whale ~ Steve Tanham

Posted on December 19, 2019 by Sue Vincent

The pale winter sun lies – to our symbolic view – just beyond the East Cliff horizon. Its lowness and lateness in the cold sky speaks of the approach of the winter solstice, a time of maximum darkness and minimum … Continue reading →

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Keys of Heaven (3): the synchronicity of kindness ~ Steve Tanham

Posted on December 17, 2019 by Sue Vincent

There’s a certain ‘presence’ about kindness. Like the spiritual – or, more likely, as a part of it – the act of unexpected kindness drops into our lives like a messenger from the ‘Gods’. So it was with our visit … 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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