"Be still and know you are loved "Feel the arms of the universeRocking you to its steady hum."

"Can we just be grateful for beauty & joy, fascination & tolerance, humour & love, nature & grace, and simply release any anger and pains?"

"Find what is meaningful to you and stand by it. Even if you begin to wonder if there is any meaning to anything, continue to be yourself."

"Dancing to the sounds of trees and stones and slow minutes ticking in our hearts and bones."

"Don't be afraid to be authentic, show up in the world as you truly are.Be as you mean to be, but be light with it. Love it, give it, share it, laugh at it, walk everywhere with it.Be in the world but not OF it."

"I see, eye see, what my heart feels, soul knows. In flowing sound and glowing scenes, I touch the living dream."

"You can Transform into a Super-Soul! If you align your physical and mental (logical/emotional) self with your core self (or soul being), then you will know your personal path, and find ways to follow it to fulfillment. You can learn how to best nurture your body, plus train your mind as an empowering tool to enhance your overall balance, strength, and unique skills, so that you achieve your goals, as well as optimise your well-being."

"If you keep wanting to get back in the nest, you're missing the amazing experience of coming out to play at life for a while."

"If you want to change something, whether in a relationship, work, or anywhere, identify and focus on the few most important bits, and don't throw in extras to mess it up."

"I simply wish to continue to learn, & try to do what I have to do, better."

"Spiritual counselling is helping people find the deep root of stillness in themselves, which is also a connection to everything else."

"Inside my head / or in a distant / Galaxy / Soft I hear it / Calling me." from the song "In the Blackness" in the poetry collection "Terra Affirmative"."

"Chaos is peaceful when you stand quietly & watch - we are eternal observers, reflecting both tiny & vast, singing infinitely within."

"We are alive in all our layers of self and selflessness - individuals becoming one."

"Mist lies over the river like the icy breath of winter angels. Darkness gathers round... and it is beautiful.Thank you for this life, this death, whatever it is you arethat makes us finally see."

"There are some great positive quotes out there that I can't quite share as I wonder how a victim in a war torn country could be expected to see from their perspective?"

"Other dancers weave through our lives, sometimes stirring our deep soul's fires."

"Affirmation: What most fulfils & energizes me - mind, body, spirit - is what manifests in my life."

"Life is a bit like a sweet & toy & art & curiosity shop - all in one - only the best bits are free. If you look at all the things you can cherish it helps to balance everything else. Cherish the fabulous, the fantastic, the beautiful, the graceful, the moments of abandon, laughter, quirkiness. Cherish the tiny incredible details, the gigantic & varied display, and the infinite depths - of life."

"I believe in living healthily and sustainably, and looking to nature for renewal and inspiration."

"Hungry for beautiful words, the fox comes rooting around in the hedge, almost too close to the fire. He reads my mind with one glance and is gone. All my poetry is now trotting around the bushes inside him, maybe some day to be partly eaten or left to rot. He understands being alive for as long as he can be, and does not worry about why, or what might happen afterwards."

"These rocks are too heavy, can't carry them any more,don't know why i ever picked them up before,going to have to put them down where they don't belong,'cause i can't get them back to where they came from.These rocks belong to no one, except history.Somewhere between the desert and the rolling sea,or maybe up in the mountains blue and tall,I picked them but now i'm going to let them fall."

"I constantly yearn to celebrate life & its infinite manifestations, to examine the details of everything including the human heart & mind."

"Don't be afraid to show you soul, we need plenty of soul to show in this world."

"The soul accepts the mystery within and all around, immersing itself in it, celebrating it."

"What if there is no such thing as other people's wrongness..... ?"

"Let's forgive someone for Valentines day, it's a great way to show love, and forgive yourself too for the hurt you held onto."

"I honour the clarity of the present moment, and the stillness at the centre of being (mine & others), even in the midst of so much doing."

"Life is like a game - we should be curious to play it - you explore and learn and grow - that is what it is for - that and having fun. It all expands consciousness- your own, the collective, and the cosmic."

"Thou shalt wear trousers, but they shall fall half down to teach humility over arrogance."

Meltwater (from the book Blue Bridge)

Up here,
a face
loses its lines.
I look to see
the colour of your eyes—
they have turned
to water.

I lean forward
to catch
the scent of your hair.
"All I smell is heather."

I touch your hand
and all I feel is earth and stones.
There is nothing left
but the hillside’s breast.
Your flesh and bones
have vanished.

"Time is a pool to swim & dream & create in."

"Art is the expression of appreciation of beauty real or imagined. It's also an examination of what it means to be alive with all its varied things, emotions, and experiences. We are forever trying to explain ourselves to the world or the world to ourselves."

"Ego promenades, flounces, pushes in unwanted places, trips, stands on others, whereas a sense of destiny grounds - you just do what you do."

"Allow the light to fall across you. Shadow or sunlight. Allow it to define your shape. In its way. Another day it may be different. It surely will be. Are we ever the same? Is the light? And the way a form presses into the grass?"

"Don't be afraid. You are never really alone. Just be yourself. You don't ever have to pretend you are someone else. If you try to do that, then you don't have anything to give the world. Accept and give your gifts with love."

"Let us not take offence over small cheese, let things slide off when they don't really matter, not take things personally, be free to make better use of our energy, to get on with something meaningful instead."

"The role of Cherishing in Bereavement - I think that the key to healthy grieving is to cherish those who have passed on, so that you celebrate their lives and the times you did have together with thankfulness, instead of trying to cling on and wish that things were different. I believe that you should let them go in peace with love, not try to hang on to their spirits, just hold the precious moments gently in your heart."

"There are always exquisite things and times to remind us of the original source of all beauty and love."

"Each pain is Unbearable / yet TriflingSeeing the TRUTH is Excruciating / yet ExquisiteThrough Laugher & Tears / Grinning & Fear, we face our demons."

"Feeling free of full & empty, feeling here but also there, Neither or but simply both, a universe within, one single stare."

"Words to invoke peace & awareness. Words to create freedom and fairness. Words to plant sacred seeds. and sing us back into balance."

"Our true nature is one of innocence and freedom to choose how we live. We need to be brave enough not to give that away. Don't give up on your right to, and sense of, TRUTH, Justice, and GRACE."

"Love yourself enough to take care of your health of mind, body, and soul as a top priority, then you'lll be fit to face anything."

"We have to let go of mistakes we can no longer do anything about and move forward with clarity, focus on positivity."

"Everything I am seems to be inside my awareness, rather than my awareness being inside of me."

"From the prose poem "The Universe Thrums on regardless" in my book SPAN.We are almost nothing in the night. Reduced to warm blobs and the sound of breathing. There is comfort in that."

"I entrain myself (when I remember to)by tuning in to higher frequenciesin the ether, in my soul, everywhere I go,always accessible, always helpfulfor obtaining a higher perspectivein a matter of minutes."

"There isn't a good side and a bad side of you or of anybody, so there's no need to be at war with yourself or anyone or anything at all.All we are is a bunch of dozy people in the process of waking up.All we really need to do is try gently to be open to continuing that process.It's no good getting worked up about stuff " it's better to relax and laugh at our mistakes, then figure out how to learn from them and move on."

"Grant me the wisdom to know when to keep trying and when to stop wasting time, the patience to keep going with the 1st, and the courage & serenity to let go of the 2nd."