True Stories, Shared in Stillness

I was 25, working as a Business Development Manager and loving it. I was on the road, meeting people, chatting all day. No moment the...

Carl Gustav Jung (1875–1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and philosopher who founded what is now known as Analytical...

I arrived home to my parents’ house one day. I unlocked the security door and stepped inside. Mum was walking out of the laundry. “Hey,...

My lease was coming up at my apartment in Greville Street, Prahran. I loved living there. I even tried to buy the place off the landlord...

I just sat there, doing nothing in particular… and then suddenly, something shifted. I started blissing out. For no reason.

My name is Chris Hatzis. In Greek, Χρήστος (Christos) means “anointed” or “chosen.” It’s a name that carries weight in any religion...

Do you have these moments too?

For most people who begin to wake up, really wake up to the illusion of the world, something shifts. They realise there is a path. A...

Everyone wants change. Maybe even transformation. But they don’t want to get uncomfortable. You have to face uncertainty. You have to...

I was walking through Chapel Street on my way home from work. It was about 2 in the afternoon, and my housemate C had messaged me asking...

Following my recent visit to see Swami with Krithin where I had received his blessings and some unexpected life direction, things began...

I woke up feeling like I should go and see Swami today and it still felt right so I decided I would. I wanted to do an hour of...

It was a quiet afternoon in Melbourne. I was lying on my bed, half-reading a spiritual book. I wasn’t that into it, just flicking through...

I was meditating in the afternoon. I’d already spent a fair bit of time in meditation that morning, but I felt a call within to sit...

A few months before my awakening, I started to feel a pull toward becoming vegetarian. Something had stirred inside me. It was during a two-week trip to Bali in June — my heart was slowly opening. Gently but surely.

We were on a family holiday in Hamilton Island — Mum, Dad, my two brothers and me. I was really young. I don’t remember anything about the trip, except one thing: the pool. And what happened there.

I was coming to the end of my two weeks in Rishikesh, getting ready to head back to Tiruvannamalai. I had a month planned there for...

I was sitting outside the Sri Ramana Grocery Store opposite the ashram one evening. I’m rarely there that late, it was about 7 p.m....

I was sitting in my usual spot opposite Ramana Ashram out front of the Sri Ramana Grocery Store, a little spot I’d crafted for myself...

I was on my way back from Sri Ramana Grocery Store when I turned into my street and looked around for my doggo friend. Where is she?  I...