Author Archives: chadjudy

Between Monday, 9th September and Thursday 12th September, Angus and I cycled the Pirinexus, a 350km circular route, starting and ending in Girona, involving climbing the Pyrenees (4000m of elevation). Before we started I had anxious thoughts about being able … Continue reading →

I read the following recently which I found inspirational: Suppose we stopped compartmentalizing death, cutting it off from life. Imagine if we regarded dying as a final stage of growth that held an unprecedented opportunity for transformation. Could we turn … Continue reading →

Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) wrote in his Letters to a Young Poet: I want to ask you, as clearly as I can, to bear with patience all that is unresolved in your heart, and try to love the questions themselves. . … Continue reading →

I thought I’d share a small excerpt out of my journal: Today I feel I’m in a thin place in the area of tension between living out of my egoic self, that seeks gratification of the senses in the here … Continue reading →

A patient recently quoted the following he had heard, “The grief we feel is the price we pay for the love we share.” Loss underpins the cycle of life in which we all take part. Life is all about being … Continue reading →

I have recently been reminded of an image which describes the nature of Love: we are like little pebbles in an ocean of Divine Love which is bottomless, endless. As we fall we may get lodged in little ledges of … Continue reading →

The horizon is a moment in time where the seen meets the unseen, where the unmanifested becomes the manifested and which unfolds independently of our point of view. For many it represents all that’s hidden and for others all that’s … Continue reading →

The ineffable inner nature of living things is often best hinted at through art and poetry. My dear mum has re-awakened her long lost passion for art. Here are some of her pictures:   I thought I’d share some of … Continue reading →

Below is a message I wrote to Judy during this year … It captures my thoughts and deepest sense of our journey home. It was Rumi who said, “My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend … Continue reading →

I think it was Teresa of Avila that said, “it is heaven all the way to heaven and it is hell all the way to hell.”  And it was the last Pope that said that he can’t understand why people … Continue reading →