Malcolm Stern

14/11/2023

Facing your inner dragons with compassion is an essential journey on the path of self-discovery. 🐉✨

At Skyros, we believe that building a supportive community is key. As Malcolm Stern wisely says, 'Ultimately, we need places where we can take off our armour and be who we are.' 💛

Join us in continuing to create such a place, where you can embrace your true self and find strength in vulnerability.

Malcolm runs a truly transformational course with us, keep an eye out for details in our new programme which is coming soon. He has also written a wonderful book called 'Slay your dragons with compassion."

20/04/2019

Im doing a facebook live on Sunday morning at 10am with the lovely Christine Schulz about Skyros and its magic xx

25/05/2018

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07/05/2017

Not to be missed

Friday 19th May 7pm

To the Bone - Hattie Webb ( of the Webb sisters - Leonard Cohen's backing singers and currently touring with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers ) at Alternatives St James Church 197 Piccadilly ... See More
CONCERT - 'To The Bone' Album Release | Alternatives
Concert with Hattie Webb
alternatives.org.uk

28/11/2016

I was asked by my friend Reg to write a paragraph and choose a song by Leonard Cohen.

This is my short tribute

My song is anthem.

"Every heart to love shall come but like a refugee"

Leonard is my all time hero. For me there are 2 distinct personas - pre Monastery and post 5 years of Buddhist training with his teacher at Mount Baldy. Leonard was always a great poet but in his early days his music was often described as music to slit your wrists to. He lived an excessive early life - s*x drugs and alcohol. William Blake said the road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. There is little doubt that in his later years, he became a sage using the medium of his extraordinary lyrics and exquisite music to educate and reflect on life's deepest secrets. The amazing thing was that his music became joyful, optimistic and uplifting. He had humility, humour and impeccable dress sense. His concerts were like a call to prayer in the company of like minded others. His later songs were often a refection on death and he faced it with dignity and grace.

One of my friends reflected that his dying evoked in her, irrationally, a sense of loss normally attributed to an intimate partner or parent. I feel the same . I doubt that his like will be seen again. "Going home without my burdens - going home behind the curtains - going home without the costume that I wore."

Rest in Peace brave warrior of the spirit.

08/01/2016

Video extracts from "Courage to Change" - lecture at Alternatives St. James's Church. London October 2015
http://malcolmstern.com/videos/

For Malcolm's YouTube channel go to youtube.com/channel/UCWRgkgqxgFYIENGv3qaHr2w Extracts from "Courage to Change" - lecture at Alternatives St. James's Church. London October 2015 Credit to conscious2 for filming. Go to conscious2.com for full talk and many other inspiring wisdom explorations. Vide…

28/10/2015

ten of my key quotes enjoy !

*Slay your dragons with compassion (Buddhist concept)

*There are only five basic human stories - everything is a variation on one of these themes (Jacob Moreno - founder of psychodrama)

*I slept and dreamt that life was service. I woke and found that life was joy. I acted and behold service was joy (Rabindranath Tagore)

*How are you? - Fine - Fu**ed up, Insecure, Neurotic and Emotionally unstable

*Four secrets of Happiness (unknown):
A sense of purpose
A sense of belonging
A confidante
Physical exercise you enjoy

*If I start believing the great things people say about me, all I need to do is get into a relationship for six months …. (Ram Dass)

*To be who we are and to become what we can become, that is the sole (soul) purpose in life. (Robert Louis Stevenson)

*Until we reach a certain stage in our evolution, not only do we have a need for the support of others of like mind, we have a duty to seek that support (adapted from the I-Ching)

*Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything - that's how the light gets in (Leonard Cohen - Anthem)

*Every heart to love shall come, but like a refugee (Leonard Cohen - Anthem)

24/10/2015

I'll be giving a lecture at Alternatives ( St James's Church Piccadilly) this monday 26/10 @ 7pm on the courage to change. alternatives.org.uk. Hope to see some of my mates there! xx

01/10/2015

I was reminded this morning of Christopher Frys great poem - A Sleep of Prisoners a rare masterpiece

'The human heart can go the lengths of God...
Dark and cold we may be, but this
Is no winter now. The frozen misery
Of centuries breaks, cracks, begins to move;
The thunder is the thunder of the floes,
The thaw, the flood, the upstart Spring.
Thank God our time is now when wrong
Comes up to face us everywhere,
Never to leave us till we take
The longest stride of soul men ever took.
Affairs are now soul size.
The enterprise is exploration into God.
Where are you making for? It takes
So many thousand years to wake...
But will you wake, for pity's sake?'

27/09/2015

I gave a talk the other day for Grassroots Jews and ended with this beautiful poem by Rabindranath Tagore. Next lecture at Alternatives St James's Church Piccadilly 26/10/15.

I slept and dreamed that life was joy
I woke and found that life was service.
I acted and behold service was joy