by Anne Skyvington | Jul 28, 2024 | Poetry, Writing Spirit
Research book (a gem) that I discovered and used for this post: The Penguin Book of Spiritual Verse: 110 Poets on the Divine: [Edited by Kaveh Akbar, Penguin Random House UK, 2022] Rumi: 1207- Lift Now the Lid of the Jar of Heaven Many Sufis believed that alcoholic...
by Anne Skyvington | Feb 20, 2024 | Writing Spirit, Writing Topics
What is Meditation? “It’s what happy and successful people do,” I was told, when I first started learning about meditation and how to do it. The Dalai Lama and other Tibetan Buddhists believe that happiness is the actual goal of most people on...
by Anne Skyvington | Feb 3, 2024 | Poetry, Writing Spirit
WILLIAM BLAKE The Tyger Tyger, Tyger, burning brightIn the forests of the night,What immortal hand or eyeCould frame thy fearful symmetry? In what distant deeps or skiesBurnt the fire of thine eyes?On what wings dare he aspire?What the hand dare seize the fire? And...
by Anne Skyvington | Oct 24, 2023 | Writing Spirit, Writing Topics
The Parable of the Twins I came across this parable at the time my daughter was about to give birth to her first son and was enchanted by it. I had studied “The Republic” by Plato at Armidale Teachers’ College, and had learnt about a similar...
by Anne Skyvington | Oct 17, 2023 | Writing Spirit
In 2008 I attended a Convention in Singapore for followers of the New Kadampa Tradition of Buddhism, introduced to the West by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso in 1977. He now resides at the mother centre in the UK. These festivals are annual events, and I was a novice, trying to...
by Anne Skyvington | Aug 22, 2023 | Writing Spirit
The Golden Ratio Many buildings and artworks reflect the Golden Ratio: the Parthenon in Greece, and many other classical buildings in Europe. But it is not really known if it was designed that way. Some artists and architects believe the Golden Ratio makes the most...
