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Lost and Found

I have Lost all of this over the years: My Possessions (too numerous to list) My Mind My Respect My Dignity My Pride My Confidence My Identity My Health My Money My Jobs My Belief My Patience My Faith My Control My Happiness My Stability My Lovers My Status My Reality...

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The Mystery of Living

Most of our thoughts, actions and behaviors are geared towards experiencing pleasure and avoiding experiencing pain. My spiritual seeking began in response to a life that wasn't working out the way I’d dreamed and hoped it would. I frequently experienced what I...

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Escape To This

Whenever life gets difficult I have felt desperate to escape. Life presents me with fear or confusion or situations that are not welcome and I feel trapped by them so seeking for escape begins. There is no end to the thoughts, feelings, sensations, situations and even...

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Living the Mystery

When I speak with people about this mystery of oneness or Nonduality or consciousness or whatever name we decide to give it, I usually explain that for me awakening has been a gradual unfolding and that there are times when unity with all that appears is very much...

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Meeting What Is

This past week I've been challenged to meet emotions, thoughts, sensations and story lines that usually we try to escape through spiritual seeking. Seeking is so much about rejection of those feelings, thoughts and sensations that don't fit with our idea of awakening...

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Life is an Olympic Sport

I've never been much of a sports fan so the Olympics have generally passed me by. There is something to be said however about non-duality and sport, even from the weedy kid who always found excuses to get out of PE (Physical Education). We've just finished hosting the...

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Healing and Wholeness

This week I went to my dentist. As a survivor of oral cancer, trips to the dentist can generate a great deal of fear. Fear of pain, fear of illness, fear of disease and of course ultimately fear of death. It's been 6 years since I was diagnosed with cancer. And in...

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Being As You Are

Being as you are. This is the enlightenment that cannot be avoided. At every moment through life you are already being as you are. Wholeness does not exclude any experience and nothing is rejected by the unconditional love of wholeness. All of your calamities, all of...

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The Failure of The Failure Story

Last night I got drawn into the drama of my personal story. After a day of sitting about not really doing very much my mind wandered into the narrative of what is perceived to be happening to me. And with that came emotions that felt very strong. I was pulled into...

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The Freedom You Are

The Freedom You Are

Hey. You remember me, don’t you? I’m that feeling you had when you were stood in the bluebell wood during the summer holidays and that sense of right-ness you had when the rain made the hot concrete smell like childhood and the taste of coffee at the airport cafe as...

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Welcome Home

Welcome Home

Come home sweet child! Look and see that wherever you are, you are home. You needn't journey one step away from where you are to be home. Home in and as the feeling of loneliness, in and as the desperation even of searching for home. Look! What is this? Yearning...

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Jewels From The Mud

Over the past week I have been swept up in the drama of my life situation. Depression has visited as has anger, confusion, sadness and sobbing. And all this in response to what I perceive is happening to me. The drama flares up and for a time I believe that I am angry...

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The Dark Cafe

Here's an extract from my short story, The Dark Cafe. With much thanks to Nic at Nonduality Network for his time and expertise in recording the audio version of the short story. Listen to the full recording at www.nondualitynetwork.com Transcript of the Extract: Maria...

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Perfection

Over the last couple of years so many words and concepts have been re-born for me. The word and the concept of perfection stood alone for me in the past, separate from imperfection. Perfection was something that could never be achieved and there is of course great...

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Can Nonduality Heal?

Nonduality is pointing to the wholeness that is life itself, so in that sense it is simply a word describing life happening. Can life heal itself? It certainly seems to at times. Funnily enough, life appears to have a preference for living! Healing is really...

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Poem – Nothing is Sexy

What is nothing? It could simply be pure potential. An empty space in which something happens. Nothing could be whatever you think/feel or desire it to be. Right now, below this line of text appearing on the screen there is an empty space...      ...

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Nonduality, Health and Healing

'Can Nonduality Help Me Heal?' Nonduality is simply pointing to the wholeness you already are. And when this wholeness is seen, it is seen through the being of it. And that is already happening, right now, wherever and whoever you appear to be. The separate self...

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Eternal Discovery

This is the eternal discovery. Discovering that being is being all that arises is this living realisation. It' so easy to settle and get comfortable with understanding or clarity, to make a cosy bed in the ideas of oneness, the phrases, the concepts. This misses the...

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No Argument

In the total free fall of life happening there is no one to argue with what happens. So anger flares, sadness descends, irritation prickles and any number and flavour of emotions, feelings and sensations bubble to the surface of awareness. Ordinarily, we argue with...

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Pink Panther Teaches Nonduality

My good friend Nic Higham has compiled a wonderful video that overlays an audio of Alan Watts over a popular Pink Panther video. The result is quite breathtaking as the imagery comes alive in a new way with Alan's words of widsom. I hope you enjoy this as much as I...

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Object Consiousness

One aware of or experiencing another is a dream. There is only experiencing, only this happening. This seamless, timeless, whole. As a separate individual I see objects in space. I see the things in the world around me, other people, nature, events. As a separate...

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