We always love Spirituality in the City, a section of the magazine in which our readers discuss an aspect of spirituality that holds deep meaning for them. The theme of our Winter 2020/21 issue was ‘sovereignty’, so this was the concept our readers explored this time round. Enjoy their reflections below!
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Spirituality in the City: Autumn 2020 Edition
Spirituality in the City is always one of the most eagerly anticipated features of our magazine. In our new Autumn 2020 issue, six readers shared their positive visions for the world. Read them below!
Spirituality in the City – Winter 2019/20 Edition
We absolutely love the Spirituality in the City section of our magazine, where readers describe the beautiful human experiences that have brought meaning and joy into their lives. Read on below for our Winter 2019/20 edition, in which readers answered the question, ‘what does love mean to me?’
Here is a sneak peek of our most recent Spirituality & the City series, where six people talk about the things that make them grateful. You can read the other four stories in the series by picking up a free copy of our Winter 2017 issue from one of our wonderful stockists across Ireland. Alternatively, you can subscribe to the magazine and have the Winter issue – as well as the next three magazines for the year ahead – delivered right to your door!
Josh Scannell
Last year, I had just returned from the States where I’d spent time in huge cities like LA and Detroit. I remember walking the streets here and feeling this overwhelming sense of home, like I was being hugged by the city. When you can call Dublin home, it’s like being a member of the royal family. Anyone can wear a crown here. I was mistaken for Hozier on a famed 12 pubs night out with the lads. I was King for a moment, before remembering we’re all Kings and fame is a drag anyway. I guess it’s different if you’re actually Hozier and not a cheap stunt double, fooling drunks into taking bad photos and giving you free Guinness! I’ve left it all behind now. There’s no more free Guinness and nobody asks for my photo. People in Dublin get it like nowhere else on Earth and we should never forget that.
Kamilla Harra
When I think of Christmas, I remember the warmth and unity that permeate the streets around this time of year: the
twinkling lights reflected in people’s eyes, the smiles and laughter, the ‘Merry Christmases’ and ‘Happy New Years’ from complete strangers – said with genuine warmth and almost familial care – the local choir carolling on a crisp Saturday morning with such enthusiasm and cheer. The curious thing is that I grew up in a country where Christmas was replaced by celebrating New Year’s Eve. What amazes me as I ponder this is that my memories from two different countries, although somewhat different, capture the same Spirit: the Joy of being Alive, of being Together, of Loving and Celebrating one another – beyond any other reason or religious purpose. To me, it is a beautiful time to focus on expressing our generosity, connectedness, and the magic of being alive!
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Here is a sneak peek of our most recent Spirituality & the City series, where six people talk about the things that make them grateful. You can read the other four stories in the series by picking up a free copy of our Winter 2017 issue from one of our wonderful stockists across Ireland. Alternatively, you can subscribe to the magazine and have the Winter issue – as well as the next three magazines for the year ahead – delivered right to your door!
Sneak Peek From Autumn 2017’s Spirituality & the City: ‘We Are Grateful For…’
Here is a sneak peek of our most recent Spirituality & the City series, where six people talk about the things that make them grateful. You can read the other stories in the series by picking up a free copy of our Autumn 2017 issue from one of our wonderful stockists across Ireland. Alternatively, you can subscribe to the magazine and have the Autumn issue – as well as the next three magazines for the year ahead – delivered right to your door!
Daizan Kaarlenkaski
Change is my true friend and teacher, and the very core of Life itself. When it appears, in any way it presents itself, from challenging to deeply satisfying and everything in between, what is your reaction? Change could involve the loss of a loved one, challenges in your own health, losing your career, getting married and having children, having to sacrifice your old self-centred ways, or being moved to an unknown situation that challenges your current way of being. When things make you very uncomfortable, when you feel like you have absolutely no control over the outcome of anything, will you shut down and distract yourself with something else? Or will you face this discomfort, hear it, feel it, deeply allow it, and grow in wisdom, compassion and truthfulness? Nothing in this life is guaranteed, and even the greatest difficulties can be used for the highest thing, for your own freedom.
If you enjoyed this sneak peek, check out the full article in our Autumn 2017 issue, available in stockists throughout the country now.
This is an excerpt from our Summer 2017 issue. Read our 4 other stories by subscribing soon so we can post you a copy or picking up a magazine from one of our lovely stockists all over Ireland. Tell them we said hello!
Bebe Gardner
Beloved, Utterly vulnerable and knowing that everything I think I know, continues to be transformed in the light of your love, I offer you my deepest gratitude. The expansion and contraction, the fear and elation, the surrender of it all, the grief in feeling it all, Being it All, passing through the eye of the needle with You into Vibrant-Blossoming-Beauty…is Life’s greatest gift. I’m so grateful for your commitment – not to ‘us’, but to Love. For your dedication to Truth and Intimacy. For calling me to Deeper Woman as I call you to Deeper Man. Your constant ability to show up just kills me… in the most painfully beautiful way. I love your reflection and the mirror you are. I love how what moves through you, moves through me, and vice versa. I love being able to drink you in, in all weathers…. You move me so, my love.
Conor Clear
I’m not sure what the collective noun for grandchildren is…a whirlwind of grandchildren? A pandemonium of grandchildren? Well, whatever the word is, there’s only one person who keeps the show on the road when the whole family comes together and that’s the kids’ granny, my mother, Anne. Anne is the one who is always planning the next family get-together. She keeps my two adult brothers and I in check (not that she needs to, of course), while finding time to maintain a busy social life and get a crossword done, every day. She even puts up with me when I pop in for her famous lasagne or chicken pie! While Mam can hilariously be my harshest critic when I’m on TV (she turns the volume down when my voice-overs come on the telly!!), she’s also the one who encourages me to spoil myself; we share a love for afternoon tea and for trips to London to see a West End show every so often. So, to the woman who keeps it all together, thanks Mam and let’s see a show in London soon xxx
This is an excerpt from our Summer 2017 issue. Read our 4 other stories by subscribing soon so we can post you a copy or picking up a magazine from one of our lovely stockists all over Ireland. Tell them we said hello!
Spring Issue 2017 Sneak Peek Spirituality & The City: Speak Your Dreams Into Existence
This is an excerpt from our Spring 2017 issue. Read our 4 other stories by subscribing soon so we can post you a copy or picking up a magazine from one of our lovely stockists all over Ireland. Tell them we said hello!
David O’Brien
This year I want to move home to live in a part of the city where I feel I am inspired by my surroundings. The buzz of the local small businesses, cafés, restaurants, bookshops, local parks, leafy green quiet back streets and the cinema. I want to feel engaged with people in the community, chatting on the footpath with passers by, going to events and getting involved, finding new opportunities to build friendships and connections with the people living around me. When I step into my home, it will feel like a place of relaxation, freedom and creativity. When I step outside my front door, I will breathe in the excitement, delight and wonder of what each new day has to offer.
Miller Anthony
I have put together a proposal to speak at TEDx Dublin on March 31st. I know the feeling I want to build. I want to share my enthusiasm for life. I want to lift the audience out of the story of fear by connecting with each of them and by looking them in the eye and sharing my energy. They will be able to feel my conviction in what I am saying. I will also be making this feeling real for them, by getting them to do experiments. So, they will gain the experience, not just the information. I can feel the feeling of them connecting with me and their hearts lifting as they become freer, as they let go of those limiting stories. So, they can start to create a greater flow in themselves. I feel the strength of myself standing on stage, holding all the energy of the room. Allowing those limitations to evaporate and leaving everyone energised.
This is an excerpt from our Spring 2017 issue. Read our 4 other stories by subscribing soon so we can post you a copy or picking up a magazine from one of our lovely stockists all over Ireland. Tell them we said hello!