Alan Seale

Creating Shelter – Coming Home to Yourself in the Presence of Others

It’s my writing day. Although it’s still early, I’ve had my morning walk and taken care of a few emails. I was about to go to my meditation chair, yet sitting here in front of the fire, coffee in hand and some dried figs nearby, I feel a strong urge to write first before meditation.…

Alan Seale

Trust and Faith in Unsettling Times

Listen to Alan read “Trust and Faith in Unsettling Times.” As I sit with my laptop in front of the fire, I’m looking out into a beautiful, peaceful, snowy woods behind my house. The morning sky is gray and quiet; the wind is still. Every twig and branch is delicately lined with glistening white snow.…

Alan Seale

Back to Basics – A Path Towards Conscious Living

Listen to Alan read “Back to Basics” In this first month of the New Year, with the change in government here in the United States and the geo-political shifts happening around the world, it seems that the year ahead could get even more unsettled and uncertain. The ground beneath our feet will probably not stop…

Alan Seale

Words to Live By: My Guiding Mantra for 2025

Listen to Alan read “Words to Live By” To live intuitively, and for some, also contemplatively, means to live in an ongoing dialogue with Life—an ongoing dialogue with your inner world as well as the world around you. Life is energy in motion and it’s communicating with us all the time. And consciously or unconsciously,…

Alan Seale

Know why you’re here, and don’t get distracted by the noise

This post was originally published as Know Why You’re Here on Alan’s Substack on November 13, 2024. You can listen to him read the article there. More than 20 years ago, I heard Deepak Chopra say that most of the noise in the world comes from people defending their opinions. So here we are a…