Charlie Hogg

The Importance of Learning to Adapt

May 18, 2024

What an extraordinary world we live in. A world of eight billion human beings, living in 195 countries, speaking over 6,500 languages, and 85 per cent of us identify with a religion. What amazing diversity! So, how do we all manage all this complexity? The English naturalist, geologist, and biologist,...

The power of self-esteem

August 26, 2023

At the heart of all spirituality is the relationship with the self. The whole spiritual journey, if we embark on it, is about healing this relationship with the self, and stepping back into my true self-worth. This I then carry into each part of my life. It is a life-long...

Letting go: Leaving the past behind

May 27, 2023

We live in an extraordinary world of eight billion people living in 195 countries, speaking over 6,500 languages, and participating in more than 4,500 religions. Each one of us contributes to all the stories, the collective memories, that are intertwined with one another. These stories are in the psyche of...

The power of forgiveness

October 29, 2022

Forgiveness is one of the greatest acts of human character. Sometimes, forgiveness can change the most negative of situations into something positive. Forgiveness can change a stalemate of ego and anger into one of openness and reconciliation; it moves things that are stuck forward. Forgiveness can release long-held pain. Sometimes,...

STEPPING STONES ON THE SPIRITUAL JOURNEY

August 27, 2022

Few people embark on a spiritual journey, often referred to as the road less travelled. This journey is written about in mythology and legends, many even modern-day films have this ‘journey’ as a theme, and music, both ancient and modern, often have this underlying depth of meaning. It is in...

THE UNKNOWN POWER OF HUMILITY

May 28, 2022

One of the most profound ways of describing a spiritual journey is to say that it is ultimately the dismantling of the ego. This dismantling finally reveals the natural and original qualities of the soul, one of which is the huge, and perhaps unrecognised, power of humility. In a world...

THE REAL PILGRIMAGE

March 26, 2022

Pilgrims come in many guises, travel many miles and visit many shrines. For each pilgrim there is a quest and a reason for the quest. Ultimately it is a quest for spiritual awakening or to bring peace to the heart. At the hub is a desire for change and an...

HAVING PURITY IN THOUGHTS AND FEELINGS

December 18, 2021

For someone on a spiritual journey, purity becomes an essential requirement. There is physical purity, where things are untainted and unspoiled, there is also moral purity, but spiritual purity is when I embed my thinking and feeling in truth. Then there is a clarity and a lightness of mind and...

How to stop yourself from overthinking

October 23, 2021

Our world is no longer the same as it was. It has been turned upside down. The events took almost everyone by surprise and everyone’s thinking went into overdrive. The media bombarded us every day with information and a variety of experts gave their opinions on what might happen, and...

What does spiritual freedom mean?

June 19, 2021

In the world there are so many movements for the cause of freedom. Freedom is a deep need of each one of us. True freedom though is spiritual and means identifying and taking support from that which is permanent, that which always exists, that which is eternal. I can only...

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