Finding the Still Point: Living and leading from your centre

When things in the world become chaotic & confused, when the clamour & noise of insistent voices becomes too much, and when thing fall part, it's then that our connection to the still point matters most. What is the Still Point? This is the place of inner stillness and wisdom, calm amidst the storm, inner knowing, access to the Source that gives birth to all things and all beings. We name this place differently but we know it exists, an abundant stream of grace, ever present ...
3rd June 2022 by Centre for Spirituality in Blog
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Solvitur Ambulando – It is Solved by Walking

Solvitur ambulando – it is solved by walking - the wise counsel from St Augustine in the 5th Century. I heard those words 30 years ago when the ancient practice of labyrinth walking was being reintroduced in San Francisco’s Grace Cathedral. But what makes labyrinth walks sacred - portals to the divine? After all, at one level a labyrinth is just a canvas with a few hand-painted lines or a spiral created by a few stones arranged on a beach. The answer ...
14th November 2021 by Centre for Spirituality in Blog
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The Surprising Delights of Beach Labyrinths

Labyrinth walks have been at the heart of my spiritual practice for 25 years but in all that time I’ve never created a beach labyrinth. For the past 18 months I’ve lived on Shoreham Beach and often as I’ve walked along the beach at low tide, I’ve wondered about building one. I decided to experiment at the time of the Full Moon. It was a surprisingly powerful experience. A few of us came together and built a seven-circuit classical labyrinth using pebbles on the ...
2nd August 2021 by Centre for Spirituality in Blog
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Compassion – the heart of a life lived well

When I first started meditation, I thought the practice was just about developing greater awareness. To be honest, at a certain point I recognised that I was developing a cool (maybe even sometimes a cold) clinical awareness to my life. I had fallen into what I later discovered was a familiar trap - treating meditation as a technique for self-improvement and relating to the practice primarily cognitively rather than wholeheartedly. Slowly, it dawned on me that how we sense ourselves and ...
9th July 2021 by Centre for Spirituality in Blog
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