True Stories, Shared in Stillness

You can read as many books as you want. As many blogs as you want. Do all the meditation, the yoga, the thinking, as much as you like....

I was chatting with my dad one day. Now, my mum’s never really been into spirituality or mystical experiences, at least not openly. But...

After my 30th birthday, I decided I wanted to move back to Prahran. If I ever lived in Melbourne again, that’s the area I’d want to be...

Primary school and high school came and went. I was absolutely not  an academic. I loved sports though. I looked forward to P.E. and...

I was only a kid when I discovered Harry Potter . I couldn’t put those books down. As soon as I started reading, I was hooked. I’d read...

When I first brought my Border Collie, Zeppelin, home in August 2015, I didn’t expect it to be life changing.

It was my day off in Nhulunbuy. I was in a good rhythm — gym in the mornings, a calm routine.

It was July 2016, shortly after my 23rd birthday, when everything caught up with me. I’d been living a self-destructive lifestyle,...

I was 22, just relaxing one evening, when a friend messaged me. She was someone I was kind of into, hot and cold, back and forth....

During the Covid pandemic, I was stuck working from my apartment on Greville Street in Prahran. I counted myself lucky to still have a...

I got off the train in Puttaparthi, where I had arranged to be picked up by a tuk-tuk and taken to my Airbnb. The host, S, seemed like a nice guy over message.

After meeting a kind man at Ramana Ashram in 2018 who suggested I visit Puttaparthi to better understand a dream I’d had of Sathya Sai...

My dad once told me that when he was younger, my grandmother used to tell him how special he was that he could have anything he wanted....

I was chatting with one of my friends, and we started talking about the time we worked together briefly. It was only about three months...

What chick is going to want a 19-year-old who’s balding?

Once I woke up and had begun on the path, I can’t count how many times I just wanted to go back to what I knew. Fuck this , I thought. I...

I was on my dinner break during a late shift at work, 1 p.m. to 9 p.m. I’d ducked into Subway for a quick bite. The line was long. I...

I got invited to a birthday party in Yirrkala, an Indigenous community on the Gove Peninsula. I arrived with some friends and settled in....

I was lying on my bed at home, feeling still. The last few days, I’d been researching my name, something I’d never really done before....

It’s been nearly six months in India. It’s been fantastic, full of highs and lows, everything and nothing, all at once. But there’s...