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    L E T T E R – Fear and Freedom

    This is a little game I play with myself, ‘what’s my greatest fear in this’. I’ve found in every situation […]

    L E T T E R – Judgement

    When we are building something, a business, a relationship, our spiritual development, our education, our parenting, it’s so easy to […]

    L E T T E R – Peacefulness

    As someone that used to work in advertising, marketing and PR, our whole purpose was to make people believe that […]

    L E T T E R – Every Small Act

    I’m heading this morning from Sydney to a karate tournament in Okinawa. It has been a dream of mine since […]

    L E T T E R – For The Pros

    Inspiration comes to us through a channel of creativity. It’s not out there ‘waiting for us’ it’s flowing from within […]

    L E T T E R – Where is That Somewhere?

    ‘Something, somewhere incredible is waiting to be known’; where is that somewhere? Inside of you. Every external experience we define […]

    L E T T E R – The Crazy Ones

    I’ve done some seriously crazy things and some seriously dumb things in my time. I created a huge design and […]

    L E T T E R – The Unknown

    We recently got our daughters school report back. There are lots of columns marking all the different areas, how she […]

    L E T T E R – The Voyeur

    Pinterest and Instagram and all the other platforms I don’t even know about are such an incredible source of inspiration. […]

    L E T T E R – Inner Force

    I’ve been meditating for a very long time, and this inner force is the most powerful tool I know for […]

    L E T T E R – Some Notes

    I have sat on this quote for some time. There seemed to be so many moving parts to it, each […]

    L E T T E R ­ – Nature Within

    I really love Jane Goodall and I really love this quote. I also believe in a spiritual power higher than ourselves […]

    L E T T E R – The Tests

    In essence, this quote means to surrender to what is, with full acceptance. One of the most challenging things to […]

    L E T T E R – Stay In Your Corner

    There’s something so wonderful about discovering things about yourself, having realisations and seeing tangible results from doing self-development or spiritual […]

    L E T T E R – The Path

    I still remember many years back, over a decade ago, standing in a bookstore in New York, and picking up […]

    L E T T E R – The Two Wings

    There is a beautiful concept with our meditation technique, about the purpose of twice-daily practice. In a nutshell, it’s that […]

    L E T T E R – Resilience

    No human is born with resilience. Babies are small, vulnerable and incapable of doing anything at all for themselves, unlike […]

    L E T T E R – Being Disturbed

    Today I wanted us to all gain clarity around this essential truth. Have you ever felt rested, calm and full […]

    L E T T E R – Flux and Meditation

    Meditation teaches us so much, and in particular Vedic meditation, where we are taught so many amazing things that become […]

    L E T T E R – Vitality At What Cost

    Fear drains vitality. There’s always some lurking fear around everything – that is getting the wrong diagnosis. I have had […]

    L E T T E R – Our Ideas Of Truth

    Authentic and inspired educational teachers, spiritual teachers, coaches, and mentors have so much to offer us. Yet they are not […]

    L E T T E R – What To Nurse Then

    There is an old Zen story that I really like, with many versions of it, rendered slightly differently, but I […]

    L E T T E R – Our Real Work

    I heard Ram Dass once tell a wonderful story. I’m hazy on the details of country and religion, but it […]

    L E T T E R ­ – Don’t Think

    Instinctive living can be challenging when we are bombarded with opposing opinions backed by scientific studies that say exactly the […]

    L E T T E R – That Flat Spot

    The idea that we are going to always be in the flow, thriving and creative is ludicrous, yet we catch […]

    L E T T E R – Sadhana

    Sadhana is the sanskrit term for daily practice or ritual. Defined by one of my favourite authors Maya Triwari as […]

    L E T T E R – Your Heart In Your Work

    Dharma means purpose in Sanskrit, and it’s so frequently mistaken as ‘something spiritual as your work’. Especially in the modern […]

    L E T T E R – To End Comparison

    I think we intellectually know this. That copying others is futile in the quest for happiness. That authenticity is key […]

    L E T T E R – You Never Know

    I love dearly wise tales with messages especially this one, ancient Taoist story of an old farmer who had worked […]

    L E T T E R – Meaningfulness

    I spent the weekend with Jeff Kober teaching about understanding our humanity, our spirituality, our dharma and how to enliven […]

    L E T T E R ­- Move Your Arse

    I think this quote is such a great follow on from yesterday and I believe it so much. I had […]

    L E T T E R – To Be Breath Taken

    I’m clearly having an emotional week as represented in all the Letters! I feel so positive and taken with the […]

    L E T T E R – The Way

    Firstly I would like to thank all of you that send me the most heartfelt and beautiful notes of gratitude […]

    L E T T E R – Choices

    When we were in Los Angeles we went to a small, lesser-known private art gallery, and the gentleman working there […]

    L E T T E R – A Fractured Dance

    When I was teaching meditation in Silverlake, we spoke collectively about the current frenzy and uptake of spiritual practices and […]

    L E T T E R – An Exploration

    I love this quote by Bruce Lee. He was profound, inspiring, motivated and disciplined.    Today have a look into […]

    L E T T E R – The Journey

    Sometimes the most frequently referenced quotes and lines that are by now cheesy, are the most true, such as the […]

    L E T T E R – Continuous Growth

    There’s nowhere to ‘get to’ in our spiritual, physical and mental endeavours. Just continual growth. It’s a hard pill to […]

    L E T T E R – Squeamish

    When I am traveling, I really dislike airports. I wish I was more cool and Zen and what not, and […]

    L E T T E R – Soul Search

    Not often are we encouraged in the West to renew our spirit and our spiritual thinking. I’m writing this from […]

    L E T T E R – Just Now

    Future Projecting is something I teach and talk about a lot, as it’s a huge rut we get stuck in. […]

    L E T T E R – Oneness

    In Vedanta, an ancient body of knowledge from where our meditation practice originates, there is the concept that duality, separateness […]

    L E T T E R – Defining Success

    I loved reading the bravery, anguish, creative processes and determination of Bill Strickland in his autobiographical book Making The Impossible […]

    L E T T E R – F*#k The Fear

    Rest is undervalued in today’s frenetic society. I know it for myself. I burnt the candles at both ends for […]

    L E T T E R – A Cat On A Leash

    I hear too often nonsense about ‘taming the mind’ and references to a monkey and wild horses. The mind isn’t […]

    L E T T E R – What Is Happy?

    If you’ve had an upbringing remotely similar to mine, you may have found yourself with an ingrained belief that you […]

    L E T T E R – Perfecting The Fundamentals

    Continuing on from yesterday’s letter, I wanted to talk further about commitment. I study karate and it’s mind-blowingly frustrating because […]

    L E T T E R – Recovery Time

    I had an experience years and years ago, where I went to see a friend of mine who is a […]

    L E T T E R – Oh Ego

    Chogyam Tungpa Rinpoche was asked by a student, “Why do you think that people are so protective of their egos? Why […]

    L E T T E R – The Universe Whispers

    Underneath all the noise; our intellect, thinking mind, egos, the exterior machinations of society, other peoples opinions, there is a […]

    L E T T E R – Commitment

    Have you ever found your self ‘sitting by the door’ in life, always having one eye on your nearest exit? […]

    L E T T E R – Never Burn

    In today’s society, which is riddled with muddled messaging, knowing how to hold oneself is becoming increasingly challenging. Sayings such […]

    The Human Condition

    Most of us spend a large amount of time questioning our own actions, motives, worrying, fretting and stressing, about the […]

    So Much Opportunity

    Such a simple shift in mindset occurs when reading this. I like the word opportunity. It means gift, which sometimes […]

    The 4% Rule

    I have had the pleasure of meeting many talented people in my life, as well as many deeply conscious spiritual […]

    It Takes Two To Tango

    I was terribly bullied as a little kid and again as a teenager. And now teaching meditation to lots of […]

    All The Damn Thoughts

    Have you ever listened to all the thoughts going on in your head? I sat in the most beautiful garden […]

    A Recalibration

    Oh, how this quote resonates with me. The accompanying vulnerability, the incapacity to hold it or when an emotion breaches […]

    Help Without Judgement

    Years back I read the most fabulous book called The Art Of Asking By Amanda Palmer. Yes she did a […]

    The Never Ending Jigsaw

    We are so good most of the time at looking back, and admitting, sometimes admiringly, that everything was for the […]

    No BS Gratitude

    Gratitude is a buzz word right now and almost everyone in one way or another has had some involvement with […]

    And This

    One of my all times favourites. We can look back at painful times and reflect on how important they were, how much […]

    The Roar of The Universe

    The ego, so loud, so insistent, so annoying, so abrupt. The heart, so gentle, so mild, so curious. If we continue to honour […]

    Down That Chute

    I love Tina Fey, and I love this quote. Overthinking jams up the whole system. We just have to get […]

    The Besieged Everydayness Of Life

    Remember that episode of The Simpsons were Marge blew a mind gasket and froze up on the bridge, windows up, refusing to […]

    The Constant Reminder

    What happens when a bigger ‘problem’ comes along? All the big problems before it are suddenly relegated to little problems […]

    Book Club Launch

    As avid readers and meditators here at The Broad Place, we know how transformational both these things are. We call it the […]

    Shhh Now, Ego

    Oh man doesn’t the ego like to stink up a tantrum when we are wondering, or worse KNOW someone else […]

    The First Time Should Be Enough

    Recently I watched Oprah Winfrey being interviewed after her Cecil B. DeMille award at the Golden Globes. She said, “The […]

    Where Are You Now?

    We all seem to know this, that being present reaps the greatest rewards as a human,but very little do we […]

    Fear

    Hi everyone, This is Emily, I am a meditation teacher here at The Broad Place. I have been working with Jac […]

    Serious Trouble

    Have you picked up a copy of our The Broad Place Book Club book The Untethered Soul yet? You can […]

    A Daily Commitment

    What if it you made it this simple. What if you distilled all the self help and self development and […]

    What Will You Think

    There is so much talk of the power of positive thinking, so much science to back it up, yet I […]

    What Would It Look Like

    What would it look like if you had a year to live? What would you read? What would you stop […]