L E T T E R from Jac – Fill Thy Cup
I am doing a lot of private mentoring at the moment, with students around the world, and the same themes […]
I am doing a lot of private mentoring at the moment, with students around the world, and the same themes […]
Forgiveness. Bring to mind someone that you can’t seem to forgive about something. It might be old, or fresh. What […]
One thing I really appreciate about my meditation practice is that I get an amplified awareness of not just the […]
This year as it comes closer to change, we can begin to reconcile all the change that has occurred. Change none of us […]
The complete quote by Charles Bukowski is; “Your life is your life. Don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission. Be on the watch. […]
I think this Zen concept is brilliant, ‘Half of happiness is being okay with what you don’t get, the other […]
We are going through some problems at the moment, nothing serious, just an endless series of things that seem to […]
On Saturday we had the amazing Workshop for September’s The DOJO. Each month it is 90 minutes of philosophy and […]
One of the key things I am literally hammering into our Integrated Meditation students is to not chase perfection. You cannot be a perfect […]
It is believed that ancient cultures used rituals to counter the fears they had of the unknown. Primarily created to […]
I hear so often that productivity is about time management, or motivation, or how to get things done. Productivity is the output of your […]
I went camping the other day with two girlfriends. It can seem like a lot of work for one night […]
The wiring of the brain, the mind, the ego is such that it’s very challenging for us to see things […]
I have been exploring recently the way creativity in its broadest sense, beyond simply artistic talents, can offer a blueprint […]
To say ‘It’s a weird time’ is to wildly understate the state of the world. Perhaps you are stuck in […]
Wisdom is not something we can ‘get’, instead it’s something that comes to us, over time. However we can also […]
I received this lovely email from a reader, ‘Hey Jac, a question related to this. I’ve sometimes felt like a […]
In everyday life I subscribe to the motto “self as cause” which means I believe that ultimately I always have […]
The CEO of Patagonia has stepped down, and her very lovely goodbye note was, “I’ve been thinking a lot about […]
This Zen saying is often repeated replacing Peace or Happiness, instead of Truth. The only peace you will find on […]
Inspiration is important to me. I love that feeling of being inspired, the energy flowing through my veins, the possibilities […]
There is a famous story of karate master Budoken, who had a disciple who infamously walked by a horse that […]
One of the other lines within this chapter of the Tao Te Ching is ‘those who know when they have […]
One joyful thing about penning the Letters is receiving correspondence from readers. One response last week was, that a reader […]
We are all familiar with how when we stop exercising our bodies and muscles can quickly lose their strength, endurance, […]
One day a young Buddhist on his journey home came to the banks of a wide river. Staring hopelessly at […]
I cannot even list the amount of failures I have had, for, there are so many. I truly don’t even […]
When we did as a family our two week hotel quarantine, returning from London to Sydney, on about Day 8 […]
I have been contemplating how aligned Creativity is with juicing the most out of life. Now, whilst the word Creativity […]
When I am mentoring people, a huge theme that always comes up is success, a craving for it, or a […]
At times, with all the noise of the external world raining down on us, the technology and the news and […]
We are so excited to announce we are soon to release the First Edition of our Letters, in a self-published […]
Have you lately been recognising that you have lost your wild? Have you felt a little caged, either from within […]
I was talking with a dear friend Maryanne, about how creative people need space, to time, to ponder, to hone […]
Dear reader, What will YOU do with your one wild and precious life? What are we all learning right now […]
I’m not talking about planning, planning is important, but future projecting, we must reign in. I think it’s a major […]
Consider the sheer number of “norms” we face. The rules and regulations that our society endorses, enforces, and places upon […]
Something we touched on the other night at our Workshop at Lilium, is that if we want to let go […]
This could be sliced so many ways, and therefore is the kind of nugget of wisdom I really like. We cannot […]
Elizabeth Gilbert is speaking on her spiritual practices in regards to COVID in the above quote. It’s beautiful wording isn’t […]
Just like surfing waves, improv, free styling, jamming, going with the flow can be seen as an exercise in co-creation. […]
A daily meditation practice is like taking a huge tangled ball of wool (our minds) and slowly, piece by piece untangling it. […]
I want you to think back to a really bad funk you have been in of late. One where you […]
Ram Dass speaks, “You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don’t have to do […]
I am moving through over 1000 Letters and hand choosing which ones make it to the Letters Edition 1 collection […]
In all the hustle and bustle of life and trying to do our best and be our best we sometimes […]
What is it that you are working on right now? Is it your meditation practice? Is it healthier eating? Is […]
I was walking through a national park yesterday in the almost dark, for it was so early, breath chilly, with […]
Is anyone else in a massive rut right now with their work? Feeling stuck and unmotivated? Welcome to The Rut. […]
The intellect is a fascinating thing. It only knows everything it has learned to this minute. It’s brilliant for problem […]
There is nothing like challenging times to bring sharply in to focus the things that are important, truly important to […]
It’s easier to shy away. It’s easier to justify inaction with the idea that one is not personally doing anything wrong. It’s […]
When we are stressed and succumb to our animal nature we become self-centred. Everything and I mean EVERYTHING is happening […]
Right now there is a huge shift happening in the world, and let’s be frank, thank goodness. It can be […]
I’ve come back across from pottering through some of our boxes The New Farmers Almanac, by Greenhorns, a completely delightful […]
Have you ever noticed that when your intuition speaks to you, it’s a physical feeling. It’s like a channeling, a […]
I think the last few months has taught us not to take as much as we may have previously for […]
Technically we are all a finite story, we have a beginning, a middle and an end. The paradox is that […]
Being a human is a very complex thing. We are either moving from our heart, acknowledging our privilege, sharing our […]
Anais Nin says, “We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We […]
People that have truly encountered the darkness of their own soul, I enjoy a lot. There is a rawness, an […]
Krishnamurti speaks, ‘Simplicity of the heart is of far greater importance and significance than simplicity of possessions. To renounce comfort, […]
From the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali‘Drg darshana shaktyor ekatma tevasmita’ The ego believes we are our thoughts and compels one to […]
Tonglen is a Buddhist practice of working with suffering – ours, and everyone else’s at every opportunity. It is a […]
I love the fact that I change. Some days may be more obvious than others and some days may seem […]
Sticking with yesterday’s theme, I wanted to touch more on panic. I tend to panic as my standard go to. […]
So back to this idea of the Reward System. (you can read the previous Letter on Resistance and Flow in […]
What I have learnt about myself is that I sort of held on to some old Catholic beliefs that it […]
Whenever I experience a moment that connects me to my heart, I want to press pause and bathe in all […]
It’s so tempting to want to look to others to figure out what to do. I have always admired Krishnamurti’s teachings, […]
I know that change is happening always, it’s the only constant. I believe this, I feel it to be true […]
On Friday I hosted our live online The DOJO, 90 minute session on Resistance and Surrender, and we explored many verses of the Tao […]
The feeling of getting out of government quarantine was truly something else. I have truly realised how relative time is […]
Hands up who wants resilience? Hands up who also would prefer to not do the dirty work to get it? Resilience […]
We’ve all seen the illustration, the circle of comfort and the arrow of growth well outside and it’s likely we […]
I thought I would share some of the beauty in what I am learning personally, and what I am learning […]
Over 4 years ago, Arran and I gave away and sold almost all we owned, including all our furniture, and […]
Anne Morrow Lindbergh writes in her beautiful book Gift From the Sea, “I want in fact – to borrow from […]
In a 1979 lecture by Ram Dass he says, ‘Just look at your life and think how many preferences you […]
Isn’t it an amazing time? In the thick of all the awfulness – all the paradigms and societal beliefs we […]
Have you noticed a truly sharp difference in how you consume and what you consume once in quarantine? Is it […]
There is a Jewish story, that is also told in many traditions with varying tones. The essence of it is […]
At the moment I can feel myself firming up, more grounded every day. Becoming stronger, more resilient, and I can […]
I woke up yesterday, and for a brief moment, forgot all that had been happening. I stretched, I listened to […]
We can truly lean into the current situation of the pandemic as a way to discover the truth of ourselves. We might […]
I was to travel to Japan as my little treat post my Australian tour. I was going to Kyoto myself […]
I always come back to this quote, as a reminder to get myself realigned. I tend to lean into anxiety, […]
There is always something new to learn, to create, to contemplate no matter whether you’ve been there and done that […]
I’m sometimes surprised at how critical we can be of each other and of ourselves, myself included. How our expectations, […]
Consider that what you eat is also what you are. Consider this for your mind. What you consume mentally makes […]
With our fellow humans, there’s a line that can easily blur, crossing from inspiration, support, and connection to distraction, over-involvement, […]
I try to eat well, exercise, and meditate and do all the high-grade living things I can to keep myself […]
Well, this feels enormous. I know it shouldn’t really, it’s just a Letter isn’t it, but we have had such […]
I sat writing this Letter to you in a cafe in Selfridges in London, munching down a huge salad and […]
On the surface, being right seems like, well, the right thing to do, the right thing to focus on, the […]
Today before journaling I want you to sit for a moment with your eyes closed and ask, what does the […]
As a creative in my early twenties, rejection was just part of the game. Trained as an Interior Architect, and […]