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Seek the fire
Posted by Simon Parke, 18 Mar 2019
Seek the fire that warms you today
Come in from the cold for a moment
Some people, some places are flames
You can’t always be there, but sometimes you can…
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More bird, less cage
Posted by Simon Parke, 18 Mar 2019
Some are more cage, less bird
Though one day the bird will see
The bird complains and bristles at the cage holding them in, making them prisoner
Though one day the bird will see they are both bird and cage…
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Enneagram and our primary programmes
Posted by Simon Parke, 13 Mar 2019
Next week, I’m hosting an Enneagram retreat at Holland House.
What will we be doing? Here’s one way of describing it.
We develop our primary programmes from our childhood experiences. You’ll have yours as I have mine…
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Towards silence
Posted by Simon Parke, 12 Mar 2019
In the end, words are not real.
The word God is not God; neither is the word light light.
We are not made drunk by speaking of wine or by writing the word often.
Words point… but they do not embody…
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Thriving in the sausage machine?
Posted by Simon Parke, 11 Mar 2019
I recently had the honour of spending a day with some head teachers.
In the afternoon, we were thinking about what gives us uplift in life; what restores our sense of humanity.
No two stories are the same, of course, but one strong theme came through: nature…
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Julian of Norwich, contemporary of both Chaucer and Langland, was the first woman to write a book in English. Yet remarkably, she disappeared from view for 600 years, before her rediscovery in the 20th century. My new novel is Julian’s own telling of her life.
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In the first of my Abbot Peter mysteries, in a prequel to the Abbot’s Stormhaven adventures, Peter takes us back to the monastery of St James-the-Less. There in the shadows of Mt Sinai, Abbot Peter faces a discomforting cocktail of deception, delusion and death.
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