Our Writings

The last time we mentioned how the beauty of a work of any art, from story to sculpture, or the […]

The poet, Rainer Maria Rilke, wrote a poem about contemplating a statue of Apollo, the ancient Greek god and symbol […]

As we mentioned previously, the story of Snow White raises the question of how we respond to the red emotions, […]

The last time, at the winter solstice, we spoke of light and darkness. While light usually is treated as more […]

“There is a crack, a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.” This is one of my favourite […]

We have spoken often of our unique identity and of the sacred worth of each person and all that is. […]

Last week, we spoke of our unique identity, using the image of the unique song that is each of us. […]

We spoke last week about beauty, the beauty that is found in nature, in the arts, in the inner core […]

Whether in flowers, music, painting, story or other expressions, the theme of beauty returns again and again. I think that […]

We concluded last week’s reflection with a story familiar to many of you, called The Gift. I’ll repeat it here […]

There is one feature that struck me in speaking of the meaning of “heart” as the inmost core or unifying […]

One word or image that has recurred over and over again is that of heart, from little emojis to songs […]

Last week, we spoke of compassion as offering to one another not advice, answers, or a defensive wall, but a […]

There was a CBC program quite a few years ago, in the Ideas series, that was called The World of […]

The past five weeks, I have had the privilege of teaching a class on Greek Mythology. This experience followed several […]

In renewing my study of Greek mythology, I tried to discern the experience behind the stories, the basic life questions […]

After last week’s reflection on solitude, I came across words of poet, Rainer Maria Rilke, and educator Howard Thurman that […]

In preparing the Greek mythology class, as well as readings from the poet Rainer Maria Rilke and other reflections, the […]

We have spoken lately of the importance of being in touch with and naming our own deepest experience, especially through […]

One of the thoughts recently expressed is that we may look at and name or interpret different events in our […]

We have been speaking of the importance of being in touch with and naming our own deepest experience, and stressed […]

We have been speaking of the importance of being in touch with and naming our own deepest experience whether of […]

Last week, we spoke of how important it is to experience and name our real feelings, however varied and even […]

I have often spoken of experience, and particularly of the deepest experiences, whether of joy or of sorrow. I’ve also […]

Many authors suggest that out of still smouldering ashes of an old world order, a new world of greater interdependence, […]

Last week I mentioned how one author, Elena Lasida, thinks that the old order of things is dying and a […]

Last week I heard a talk by Elena Lasida, whose background is in economics and the social sciences, and who […]

I recently heard an interesting interview, on the CBC Ideas podcast, with.George Monbio, a writer for The Guardian newspaper, who […]

Forgiveness as Recognition of Sacredness Deeper than Brokenness Near the end of last week’s reflection, we added this paragraph. Solitude […]

Many themes have emerged in the last few weeks, and some of these might be given further reflection: wounds and […]

After sending out our last weekly reflection on healing, I heard an interview with Gabor Mate, that had a real […]

We have spoken of the breaking of our heart in the two senses of deep hurt and of opening up, […]

  Last week, we spoke of naming our experience. This may be done from the silence of our own heart […]

In several reflections, we have brought out the underlying theme of energy as flowing through all that is, in various […]

In recent reading and reflection, the word “energy” has come up. It has done so in two distinct but actually […]

Many years ago, when my daughter was a very young child, she witnessed a pet cat giving birth to kittens. […]

It has struck me recently how much we are full of contradictory feelings. For myself after a morning walk followed […]

A recent podcast on CBC’s Tapestry affirmed that one of the aids to living well in the crisis time of […]

Albert Einstein has said that imagination is more important than knowledge. Liberation theologian, Rubem Alves, has written that the most […]

In last week’s reflection, we noted the weariness that afflicts so many of us as a result of a prolonged […]

The time of Easter and the season of spring is intended to be an awakening from the dormancy of winter. […]

One year ago now, our world as we knew it turned upside down and we are all still living with […]

We have spoken previously of story, both in terms of our own story and the stories to which we are […]

Perhaps we might add a few more words on the experience of beauty. I looked up an interview with the […]

On my walk this past week, I listened to a podcast from the CBC Tapestry program, which stressed the importance […]

This past week, I listened to a series of podcasts from the CBC ideas program, which were a re-broadcast of […]

Last week, we used the image of the eyes through which we look at life and suggested that we see […]

Many years ago, in reflecting upon the educational process, it struck me that the emphasis should not be merely on […]

I recently listened to an On Being podcast on depression and found that the author, Anita Burrows, had published translations […]

I’ve been listening recently to podcasts by Laurie Santos, a psychology professor at Yale who teaches courses on well-being. Some […]

The last time we mentioned how the beauty of a work of any art, from story to sculpture, or the […]

The poet, Rainer Maria Rilke, wrote a poem about contemplating a statue of Apollo, the ancient Greek god and symbol […]

As we mentioned previously, the story of Snow White raises the question of how we respond to the red emotions, […]

The last time, at the winter solstice, we spoke of light and darkness. While light usually is treated as more […]

“There is a crack, a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.” This is one of my favourite […]

We have spoken often of our unique identity and of the sacred worth of each person and all that is. […]

Last week, we spoke of our unique identity, using the image of the unique song that is each of us. […]

We spoke last week about beauty, the beauty that is found in nature, in the arts, in the inner core […]

Whether in flowers, music, painting, story or other expressions, the theme of beauty returns again and again. I think that […]

We concluded last week’s reflection with a story familiar to many of you, called The Gift. I’ll repeat it here […]