I’ve been very lucky in my life to have had first-hand experience of a number of prominent spiritual teachers – amongst others, the Dalai Lama, Jack Kornfield, Sogyal Rinpoche, Ram Dass and Adyashanti. But, the retreat that I went on with Eckhart Tolle in 2014 in many ways remains the most profound. Why was that? Well, it's hard to say because, in many ways, the time with him was quite ordinary. There were no particular highs. He sat and talked – for fourteen hours over ten

The question ‘What really matters?’ is a vital one. ‘What does really matter?’ ‘What does really matter to you?’ I have asked this question of myself and of my clients for many years and several different facets have emerged. In this blog, I am going to explore some of the ways in which what really matters changes over a lifetime. When I look at what matters to my teenage son it is not the same as what matters to somebody who is 70 years old. He is bound up with issues of ge