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"We live in the world when we love it."
Rabindranath Tagore
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Sanctuary's emergence.
When the sacredness of individual life is honoured on land and when this honouring becomes the backbone of stewardship; when the...
Dan Leak
Mar 16


The Chalice Well
Land-deities and Guardians presence themselves as landscape as much they are present upon it. Deity and topography are one and the same;...
Dan Leak
Oct 1, 2023


Swallowhead Symphytum
When inner and outer environments are seen as a simultaneous event rather than separate entities, when the noun 'world' is replaced by...
Dan Leak
May 18, 2021


Gardening as a path of collaboration and uncovering
The sculptor Auguste Rodin famously said that his art lay in the uncovering of what already was contained within the block of stone. In...
Dan Leak
May 18, 2021


Hidden Lands
'When the mind opens through spiritual practice, so too do new dimensions in the environment' - Chadral Sangye Dorje Within...
Dan Leak
May 18, 2021


William Blake's Ecology of Perception
'I give you the end of a golden string Only wind it into a ball It will lead you in at Heavens gate Built in Jerusalems wall' William...
Dan Leak
May 18, 2021


Innocence : Salve for Eye and Heart
'The Fool does not see the world with the disillusioned knowingness of the scientist; rather he marvels; he looks with the eyes of a...
Dan Leak
May 18, 2021


Tsechu Dawn
The sun will shortly rise over the woods here and Your blessings will ride in on its rays as surely as the day will break. Your Love is...
Dan Leak
May 18, 2021


Beauty taken deeply into the heart via the senses ...
When the mind is opened to and by beauty some sort of aesthetic revolution occurs within. Immersion of the senses in beauty can jolt...
Dan Leak
May 18, 2021


A pristine seam running right through
Something pristine is glimpsed in the heart of every and all being; a seam running right through the heart of the world. All my desires...
Dan Leak
May 18, 2021


A disposition of offering
There is a way of relating with Land that sees the expanse of the meta-ecology as purely divine; supremely sacred not in some metaphoric...
Dan Leak
May 18, 2021


Outer and Inner
The outer element as the entrance to the inner element. This liminal home of offering.
Dan Leak
May 18, 2021
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