by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, February 2019
First published by Huffington Post
These articles, written from 2010 until 2017 for the Huffington Post, and gathered together here as a small booklet, were a small response to a collective forgetfulness—a trail of breadcrumbs hoping to attract the attention of those seeking real nourishment, needing to find their way back to their soul and the real ground of being. Read More
by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee February 2019
First published in Parabola
“With an open heart we can see and sense the sacred nature of all of life.”
A simple and essential spiritual truth teaches that only being awake in the moment is real. Only then can the strawberry be tasted in its full sweetness, the plum blossom be seen in its fragile beauty, without memory or preconception. This is the Zen moment of satori, when we are fully present in the experience, in life, as it is. It is a moment “in and out of time,” which we usually glimpse only for an instant before the thoughts and the patterns of our consciousness cloud over our eyes. Read More
By Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, November 2017
Published in Garrison Institute
For our ancestors the rhythms of the seasons were their calendar, the rising and setting of the sun their only clock. Today our clocks seem to spin much faster and it is easy to ignore—or even forget—these more primal seasons and their meaning. And yet as our world appears to spin more and more out of balance—temperatures and sea levels rising, species depleted—there is a pressing need to return to a deeper rhythm, to the cycles that belong to healing and transformation, to the seasons of the Earth and the seasons of the soul. Read More
by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee September 2018
First published in Kosmos Journal
Unity holds the essential vision that we are one living, interconnected ecosystem—a living Earth that supports and nourishes all of its inhabitants. If we acknowledge and honor this simple reality, we can begin to participate in the vital work of healing our fractured and divisive world and embrace a consciousness of oneness that is our human heritage. This is the opportunity that is being offered to us, even as its dark twin is constellating the dynamics of nationalism, tribalism, isolationism, and all the other regressive forces that express ‘me’ rather than ‘we.’ Read More
by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, August 2018
Published online on Garrison Institute
"The only way to change the world is to change the story.” We know only too well the story that defines our world today. It is a tale of consumerism and greed, sustained by the empty but enticing promise of an endless stream of “stuff” as the source of our happiness and wellbeing. Read More
by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee and Hilary Hart, April 2018
First published in Heartfulness Magazine
In the busy-ness of our contemporary life, we are drawn into ceaseless activity that often separates us from the deeper dimension of ourselves. With our smartphones and computer screens, we often remain caught on the surface of our lives amidst the noise and chatter that continually distract us, that stops us from being rooted in our true nature. Unaware we are drowned deeper and deeper in a culture of soulless materialism. Read More
by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, March 2018
First published in the blog the feminine and the seeds of the future
When I was nineteen I met my teacher, a Russian-born woman in her mid-sixties, recently returned from India where she had been trained by a Sufi master. Four years later, sitting in her small meditation group, I met and fell in love with a young woman recently arrived to London from Israel, who was to become my wife. As an intense young man, focused on meditation and aspiring to realize a formless Truth, the Sufi path unexpectedly opened me to the mystery of the feminine, and to the wonder of love both human and divine, formless and tangible. Read More
By Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, May 2017
Adapted from Spiritual Ecology: 10 Practices to Reawaken the Sacred in Everyday Life.
In the busyness of our contemporary life we are drawn into ceaseless activity that often separates us from the deeper dimension of our self. Read More
by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, March 2015
Transcript of talk by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
From the Gathering: Technology, Consciousness & the Future, March 27–28, 2015 – Half Moon Bay, CA
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By Sam Mowe, May 2017
Published in Garrison Institute
When you pay attention to what’s happening to the world—the destruction of our air, soil, and water—it is common to want to do something to help the situation. But what if part of the reason that we’re in this perilous ecological situation is our tendency to treat the world as if it’s a problem to be solved? Read More
