Inspiration

We do not grow great souls by intending to be great but by immersing ourselves in the work of the soul, nurturing beauty, growing love, being compassionate or creative. When we lose ourselves in works of beauty or acts of love we are actually tending the...

Beauty is a restorative power, the more time we spend out in nature, appreciating beauty then the more we grow beauty within us. When we let beauty into our lives it has a healing and transformative power that will benefit us in every way helping us...

Honouring the Kotare, the New Zealand Sacred Kingfisher. I always feel priveleged when I get to see a kingfisher. The NZ sacred kingfisher has adapted to a range of habitats. In spring and summer it tends to move inland and is commonly seen in gardens...

We humans put immense focus on our bodily existence and the impermanent forms of this reality and all to often pay too little attention to our soul, to that presence within us that does not die. We need to remember that this reality is only one side of...

Though in the vastness of the universe, there must be many planets teaming with life, we humans only have this one the rest are beyond our reach. If we all start working together to change our habits and our culture from destructive to protective...

Too many of us have acquired the habit of looking for what's wrong in the world, until that's nearly all we can see. We need to start a new habit of looking at what's beautiful and right in this world and then growing those things until they are all that...

Love is a powerful force that moves within us and through all of existence. We have been conditioned by our modern society to be rational thinking human beings, to make rational decisions based on rules, values and economics, but love is beyond all that...

We live in a universe full of the most extraordinary beauty, beauty that is continuously unfoldling around us at all levels and yet, so often, we'll miss the most beautiful thing of all right before our eyes, the chance to commune with the soul of...

We live in a society that disempowers us by making us believe that we have to work hard to be someone, to be a success, to meet someone elses expections. Acquire more wealth, more qualifications, become more than we already are. But this is a lie. We...

When we become silent in the face of natures beauty we become aware of our own soul presence glowing within us. This poem is a reminder to spend more time in nature communing with beauty and so connecting with our own inner radiance. The more often we...

We need to learn to live by the light of our own heart and not be caught up in the false fears of our minds. This poem is about the tranformation that comes, affecting all aspects of our lives, when we learn to trust in our heart and live in the light of...

Beauty and love, doorways into the soul, the more we explore beauty, the more we open ourselves up to love and vice versa. There is no limit to the exploration of love or to the depth of beauty that opens within us when we begin this journey. Ultimately...

We live in a society that constantly pressures us to become absorbed in its own made up problems. It is all too easy to become stressed, fearful and anxious so absorbed in these made up problems that we totally miss the unfathomable beauty of the world...

Too many of us have learnt to survive by putting up a mask that we hide behind, protecting our vulnerabillities from society. But this same mask that makes us feel so secure also cuts off our connection with the natural world and inhibits the free flow...

Raindrops suspended from a stem of fresia buds after a morning shower. Raindrops are perfect lenses containing an image of the world around them. A world in a rain drop, a world within the world. Existence reflected in a single soul, every soul...

It is easy to forget how beautiful this world is and walk by without noticing it but the reality is we are constantly surrounded by the extraordinary beauty of this existence, we just have to make the effort to appreciate it in all its different forms...

Its all too easy to get caught up in the personal dramas of our own lives, the rights and wrongs, churning them over again and again, thinking and rethinking them.  All this thought never creates any clarity. Clarity comes when we allow all those...

Sometimes we just need to sit still and let the beauty of this existence soak into us and remember that we are that beauty, we are that love. This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on aluminium using the Chromaluxe dye...