L E T T E R from Jac – Nature Is My Religion
I don’t have an official religion, but my temple is the ocean. My altars are the trees. Animals are my […]
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L E T T E R from Jac – The Power of Intent
There is a system within the Vedic lineages called ‘tapasya’ which is essentially the renunciation of something we enjoy, in […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Anxiety Remedies
Ram Dass really brought home the message ‘Be Here Now’. In fact, it was the title of his pivotal book, […]
L E T T E R from Emily – The Work
“Dust settles, I don’t” – Anita Kopacz I was listening to a podcast (Ancient Wisdom Today) a few days ago, […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Truly Transform 2019
Life is this strange sequencing of events, isn’t it? And when we look at a year, it is like 12 […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Where Are We Blocking Compassion
I raised this in our Tea Ceremony and Meditation Gathering last Saturday because someone asked it of me awhile ago and it really stuck […]
L E T T E R from Jac – The No That Comes Before A Yes
I frequently do this, write a YES list. What do I want in my life. It’s a very full life, so there has to […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Our Practices
Too often we think, myself included, ‘I don’t have time for this’, surrounding anything that is nourishing, rewarding, spiritual and […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Everything Is The Path
Even the crap bits, shit bits all the bits in between. It’s funny how in hindsight we understand that everything […]
L E T T E R from Emily – Warrior of Love
“I am a warrior of love.I am the light that lights the path of my soul” – Unknown Who’s ever […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Your Anchors
I know I bang on and on about Values, but I truly see them as anchors for our souls. When […]
L E T T E R from Jac – You Determine The Course
Gah how I love this quote! I wanted to end the week with it. When we don’t know what our […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Accepting Everything
There is a Zen saying Susan Murphy taught me, which is no matter WHAT is happening, you send out into […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Working with Anxiety
I have an immense amount to speak to on this topic, but I thought I would start with sharing with […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Alchemy
I am so grateful for my lowest of lows. They formed and shaped me in ways I couldn’t ever possibly […]
L E T T E R from Emily – Play On
“The oak sleeps in the acornThe giant sequoia tree sleeps in its tiny seedThe bird waits in the eggGod waits […]
L E T T E R from Jac – How Much Life Is This Worth
It’s a worthwhile question, isn’t it? Sometimes, it’s lots of life. I love material things and I get great joy from […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Little Buddha’s
The Buddha spoke that every being has the capacity for enlightenment and as everything is connected, every single being has […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Deep Gratitude
Today is Letter 300. There are so many Letters behind these when I wasn’t tallying them up. But 300 feels […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Heavy and Light
This reminds me of something my friend Sam from Cloud Hidden Tea told me about tea ceremonies; work with the […]
L E T T E R – Gratitude For The Little Things
The other day in London, we discovered a street cart outside a mosque, where Kaz the owner makes some of […]
L E T T E R – Navigating Our Own Path
Okay ‘huge news’, we have moved our quotes to a neutral colour palette. I share this not because it’s going […]
L E T T E R – You Do You Baby
What if taught all our kids that normal was beige, nothing to aspire to, and to totally and utterly embrace […]
L E T T E R – The Critics, The Haters and the Naysayers
The brighter you shine the more blinding it will become for those not attuned to it. I was recently chatting […]
L E T T E R – What’s Really Stopping Us
I get this kind of question/pondering all the time, along the lines of…‘So I really really feel that meditation would […]
L E T T E R – A Commitment To Change
Our brains wire in ways of doing things for efficiencies sake. It’s to make the whole system flow more, things […]
L E T T E R – A Time For Everything
As we round out January, there comes a sense of the year looming ahead. Will it be everything we want […]
L E T T E R – Our Repeated Actions
In Zen, the tensho is the monastery cook. Every moment, every meal is seen as an opportunity to experience truth, […]
L E T T E R – No Former Just Present
I love this quote by Condoleeza, for its many layers. What if we let go of former everything. Former anxiety.Former […]
L E T T E R – Treading Our Path Without Distraction
I think writing yesterday’s Letter stirred up a lot for me. I pondered about all the (necessary) distractions I experienced […]
L E T T E R – The Courage We Once Had
When I was young, I was a strange little kid. I didn’t fit in at all. Eccentric, hyperactive, skinny and […]
L E T T E R – Creativity Is The Only Thing That Matters
What if instead of considering creativity just as artistic ways of going about things, we widened the scope to include: […]
L E T T E R – The Thin Thread Between This Life and The Next
David Whyte said,’ How easily the thread is broken between this life and the next’. It’s a beautiful line, isn’t […]
L E T T E R – Purpose
Why is our personal purpose so hard to define for most of us? It took me decades to figure it […]
L E T T E R – Creating Space And Pause Before Action
I had a conversation with a dear friend and meditation student on the weekend about the never-ending list of ‘All […]
L E T T E R – The Most Expensive Price Tag In The World
I had soooo many people respond to the letter (What Would You Create) about what would you do if you couldn’t […]
L E T T E R – A Series Of Little Choices
Brene always delivers the pithy statements, doesn’t she? I love thinking about authenticity this way, a series of tiny commitments. […]
L E T T E R – Dark Nights Of The Soul
This is that tricky time of year I find when we bound in with full enthusiasm, transformed by new possibility […]
L E T T E R – Let’s Not Be Lunatics
I’ve never met anyone like Arran, he literally doesn’t ever consider what anyone thinks of him. He’s incredibly neat and […]
L E T T E R – What Would You Create
One of my favourite questions as part of long-term workshops that I host, is ‘if you knew you couldn’t fail, […]
L E T T E R – Being A Creativity Conduit
I like to think of our bodies as little tuning forks for the universe’s energy. The system through which creativity […]
L E T T E R – Wise Choices
A little list of things I would recommend if you’re stuck making choices at the moment. It’s a big time […]
L E T T E R – The First Day Of 2019
It’s the first day of 2019. If you woke today bright and alive, brilliant. If you woke hungover as hell […]
L E T T E R – Happy New Year!!!
My absolute goodness what a year. For Arran and I, it was beyond what we imagined. I travelled to London, […]
L E T T E R – Humility and Service
I spent most of Friday emailing back students who had applied for the scholarship of Be Your Best Self. We […]
L E T T E R – The Difference Between Planning And Surrender
The Letter I wrote the other day about the need for planning and our common misunderstanding that planning depletes our […]
L E T T E R – Being What’s Right Over Concerned With Who Is Right
I had a really interesting conversation the other day with a long term meditator who had become disillusioned with spirituality, […]
L E T T E R – The Balance Between Desire and Satisfaction
I find this one of the most challenging of all the opposites we experience, the balance between simplicity and happiness […]
L E T T E R – Conditions on Behaviours
Being only a few short days to Christmas, I thought this quote was utterly perfect, as soon most of us […]
L E T T E R – Pouring Out Patience
Conscious and Patient are not two words I have always been excellent at embodying in my life. I have been […]
L E T T E R – Which Would You Choose
This quote has been playing around in my mind like a Zen koan for some time. It can be viewed […]
L E T T E R – The Privilege Of A Life
I was standing on the shore of the beach the other day chatting to Gabriel. Gabriel is Argentinean and I […]
L E T T E R – Pioneering Your Future
I absolutely adore this quote and have had it pinned above my desk for years. When I am stuck, feeling […]
W E E K E N D E D I T I O N – With Kate Pascoe Squires
This Weekend Edition we are proudly introducing you to Kate Pascoe Squires, who has been making some significant and inspiring […]
L E T T E R – The Chasing of Perfection
When Emily or I teach Integrated Meditation, we both drill into our students to not chase perfection. You will never […]
L E T T E R – Planning Means Presence
This is the time of year we all sit back and start to either feel incredible gratitude for the year […]
L E T T E R – The Monk and The Boat
My wonderful friend Jeff Kober included this in his daily newsletter last week and I loved it so much I […]
L E T T E R – Inwards Honesty First
It’s so much easier to look at someone close to us and see their flaws. Their unrealistic nature in certain […]
L E T T E R – Say No, Immediately
There is a downside to living a full and abundant life. I mean at first you’re like, seriously, could there be […]
L E T T E R – Conscious Conversation
I really wish to use The Broad Place to share important messages. Erin Lovell Verinder who was recently interviewed at […]
L E T T E R – The Unending Creative Process
Last weekend, I hosted with my insanely talented friend Kim Amos a Creativity and Consciousness Workshop at her property, River […]
L E T T E R – Your Choosing
I am trying hard to help my daughter be empowered to make the choices that are right by her. To […]
L E T T E R – Too Much Movement
When we are constantly moving, it’s so hard to be still. Not still in meditation, still in life. When we […]
L E T T E R – The Two Wings
As an enthusiast (someone with obsessive tendencies coupled with deep excitement), Arran is always nervous when I start getting into […]
L E T T E R – Constant Failure
I looked after our friends’ little boy called Sonny the other night, the whole night and morning while they went […]
L E T T E R – Constant Clinging
I am up in glorious Byron Bay on the east coast of Australia preparing for our Retreat, studying tea, spending […]
L E T T E R – The Simplicity of Meditation
Meditation these days is a name for a lot of different things, a lot of which is not meditation. Something […]
L E T T E R – Expanding Our Consciousness
Consciousness is defined in so many different ways, sometimes as a state of awareness, or the quality of that awareness. Sometimes as […]
L E T T E R – Burn Bright vs Burn Out
One of the examples I use when teaching in workplaces is this: Last day of work before a holiday; everyone […]
L E T T E R – The Creative Path
Charles and Ray Eames have been an endless inspiration to me. When I was 19 and studying interior architecture, one […]
L E T T E R – New Beginnings
I meet a lot of people who comment they’re too scared to learn meditation because of what they might discover […]
L E T T E R – Shadow and Light
When living a conscious life, it’s not all unicorns and rainbows. People sometimes think that they can walk a conscious […]
L E T T E R – How To Proceed
I used to play a game many years back, that I nicknamed Ram Dass Roulette. I listened ferociously to Ram […]
L E T T E R – No Really, Who
I still remember reading The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand’s pivotal book. I was maybe 21 at the time and it fried […]
L E T T E R – The Bigger Questions
Around this time of year, Arran and I start formulating our ideas for the following year. 2018 was massive for […]
L E T T E R – Your New Vital Daily Tool; Power Down Hour
We have been preaching this from the rooftops for years, it’s a tool within our 7 Day Mind Cleanse and […]
L E T T E R – A Gift For You Of Our Key Clarity Tool
Today we are going to gift you something special, because trust me, you need it. Everyone, especially at this time of the […]
L E T T E R – Smoking In A Zen Monastery
Grounding is about being connected to within, to the earth, and to nature and taking our heads out of the […]
WEEKEND EDITION with Amanda Talbot
Amanda is a dear friend of ours, and we have not only worked together, (you might remember Hiro her little […]
L E T T E R – The Broad Aspect to Consciousness
What’s fascinating about consciousness is that it’s hard to describe, hard to quantify and yet everyone wants more of it. […]
L E T T E R – The Never Ending Jigsaw
We are so good most of the time at looking back, and admitting, sometimes admiringly, that everything was for the […]
L E T T E R – Our Creative Capacity
Frequently people think ‘creativity = art’ and it’s time for us to broaden our horizons around this. Creativity is at […]
L E T T E R – The Heart
I often ponder why it’s so hard to follow our hearts and even harder sometimes to hear what they have […]
L E T T E R – What Will You Think
There is so much talk of the power of positive thinking, so much science to back it up, yet I […]
L E T T E R – Clean, Simple, Distilled Thinking
I used to have a terrible aversion to saying no to people. I had, (and still do) a big fear […]
L E T T E R – The Ways Of The Mind
This quote is for me literally something to live by ‘Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything […]
L E T T E R – Some Thoughts On Overwhelm
Wow, this weeks’ Letters seem to have really triggered a lot of thought and reflection from many of you!! So, […]
L E T T E R – Working With Fear Part 3; Overwhelm
If you haven’t read the first and second part of this Letter series, you can check Part 1 and Part […]
L E T T E R – Working With Fear Part 2; Bravery
If you haven’t read the first part of this Letter series you can do so here. Continuing on from yesterday! […]
L E T T E R – It’s So Bothersome Being Bothered
In Buddhism, Dukkha, which is originally a Pali word, is translated most frequently as suffering. Specifically the suffering of the […]
L E T T E R – Truth Telling
Having a teenage daughter, the essence of telling the truth is really up in our grill at the moment. And […]
L E T T E R – Working with True Knowing and Dealing With Disappointment. Part 2
If you missed yesterday’s Letter, Part 1, you can see it here. After changing my flights and wrapping up the […]
L E T T E R – Working with True Knowing and Dealing With Disappointment. Part 1
Our recent trip to India took a year to plan. The major component was our Broad Place Retreat which had […]
L E T T E R – A Net Free Bird
The only thing we are really trapped by is our thinking mind, with its limitations and prejudices and biases that […]
L E T T E R – Revelling in Beauty
Beauty can be so underrated in our modern way of life. Tiny moments of beauty can light me up for hours […]
L E T T E R – We Are All Judgemental Assholes
We can’t help it a lot of the time. It’s automatic. Our egos are constantly sizing everything up against that […]
L E T T E R – There’s Always Something Better Happening
For our recent India Retreat, I had it all mapped out. Tightly organised, planned to within an inch of its […]
L E T T E R – The Material World
A student messaged me last week saying she felt disgusted with herself and angry, as she still longed to buy […]
L E T T E R – What Spirituality Means Part 1
There is so much confusion when we decide to live ‘spiritually’. It’s really a nonsense idea because everyone is trying […]