At some point, twenty-five or so years ago, I began to realize that the “language” that we have come to use to describe ourselves and all that is around us is itself responsible for that which it seeks to describe.

This beginning was set out in the following papers:

	Lost for Words - an exploration of the Buddhist wisdom of emptiness and the philosophy of 'deep ecology, Mandala, Spring 1997 (originally given as a lecture to the Temenos Academy, Nov1996)
	Stillness and Dancing: Some Thoughts on Sustainability. Temenos Academy, Spring 2000.

> See Temenos Academy

It soon became clear to me that we could only make a change by using a different “language”, as the language of convention would always bring us back to where we are. It also became clear to me that the only way to find a new language was to practice a new way of being. In my case, this led me to study (and try to practice) the ways of being described by the Buddha – both in daily life and in mediation. I also explored some of our own legends and traditions, our heritage of stories. This work is reflected in:

	The King Who Lost His Memory
	Three Stories
	A Necessary Simplicity, Resurgence, 2002
	With Our Thoughts We Make The World, A Sacred Trust, Temenos Academy, 2002.
	Eternal Wisdom in an Age of Illusion, The Annual Bahái’I Lecture, University of Maryland, USA, 2003.

And then, I produced four papers that reflected my birthright as a Quaker:

	Peace Talk: Some comments on war and peace (The Friends Quarterly, January 2006)
	Common Prayer: A Quaker’s experience of Orthodoxy (Unpublished)
	A Point of Light: A Quaker’s experience of the Brahma Kumaris (publication pending)
	What We Believe In Matters (Unpublished)

You may be interested to visit these websites:

Quakers: www.quaker.org.uk
Friends of Mount Athos: www.athosfriends.org
Brahma Kumaris: www.bkwsu.org

More recently, I have published papers that take my work more deeply into the realm of Love and The Holy Life:

	The Roots of Sustainability (to be published by The Prince’s Foundation of the Built Environment)
	Divine Abiding and The Holy Life (to be published by The Friends Journal)
	Holy Work: Thoughts from The Bhagavad Gita (unpublished)

See also:

The Prince's Foundation for the Built Environment: www.princes-foundation.org
The Prince's School of Traditional Arts: www.princesschooltraditionalarts.org