The Gentle Inward Gaze
That so gifted, sensitive Irish writer John O’Donohue once wrote this moving statement: “Let there be gentleness in your gaze when you look within”. So many of us can sometimes be so tough with ourselves. Yet the incredible, divine, unconditionally loving Being which...Practice of Blessing in a Troubled Region of Africa
I received this message from a dear friend in one of the tormented areas of the world – a region of Mali where warring rebels and Jihadists have created for years tremendous turmoil and suffering for the local populations, already among the poorest on the globe. I...Saved from Tuareg rebels by blessing
It is truly a joy for me to give this testimony of an adventure that might well have ended very badly had it not been for the power of blessing. I am an anesthetist physician, and in 2007 I get a call from a surgeon colleague in Toulouse on behalf of an association,...Blessing is for everywhere, all the time
At a recent workshop on meditation given by a former Buddhist monk in the magical setting of a chalet in the Swiss Alps where I run workshops every summer, I was asked how I blessed people in the public transport system, in the street and other public spaces. I am...Thoughts to ponder
