I recently heard someone say that awakening begins when you can sit comfortably in the middle of a paradox. Then I had my Vedanta teacher explaining Maya (an enormous concept I will here simply explain as a veil of illusion by which we experience the world) as that which is real and not real at…

January; new start, better habits, more of this less of that…. while all we really want to do is hibernating and waiting for brighter days (at least up here in the North). The gym is busy, the yoga studio sees new faces, people try not to drink alcohol and perhaps to ditch meat on a…

Just the other week, under a starlit sky in Provence, with the mild night breeze floating amongst the olive trees like a seductive whisper, one could for a moment think that the world is a beautiful place. This world, us humans playing out our experienced existence under the watchful eye of Mother Earth. But I…

If I had promised you a cake and I presented you, on a plate, a block of (vegan) butter, would you accept this as cake? Would you not say, ‘this is not cake, this is butter’? To which I would reply ‘there is butter in cake, and I like the butter the most, so I…