Facets of the Diamond

I never imagined that one day I would pick up the pen and start writing.

After an awakening experience—and spending time in a group where the living, shared field became the ground of being for each of us and for the group itself—I found myself almost compelled to write.

At first, these ‘meditations’ arose on my morning cushion. The words arrived spontaneously, each piece forming around a theme that emerged as the writing flowed. They came from a place of not-knowing, from curiosity and presence. Each one reflected an aspect of living from the mystery at the heart of each of us, refracted through the realities of embodied existence. I began posting them on my first blog, Facets of the Diamond.

Since then, other forms of expression have emerged—running alongside the poems, shaped by the same field of presence.

Out of my experiences within the shared field of being, a book has emerged—The Space Between Us—telling the story of that unfolding and offering an invitation into shared presence.

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More recently, I’ve come to see that some context is needed to frame the poems. The living field that gives rise to them naturally resolves into three core themes:

what it means to wake up,
how one stays awake and true to the realisation,
and how to live an available life—open to the mystery as it moves.

These three aspects – Book. Poems and Contemplations - now sit together here, within this integrated site.

I still don’t claim to know anything. Writing leaves me emptied out again and again—ready to receive.

And although these writings are shared to offer whatever insight has come through, each piece is also a contract of obligation—a gift from the inner voice. Writing them down and sharing them is, for me, a commitment to live what they point to.