Out of the Blue #1 - A Weekly Harvest of Sacred Invitations

Five Newsletters, Infinite Openings to the Mystery of Who You Are

Each day, from Sunday to Friday, a seed is sown—creativity, energy, spirit, presence, and stillness. Out of the Blue gathers the fruit of that week’s writing, offering you a single place to pause, reflect, and receive the distilled essence of the unfolding.

This is the first week that I am publishing the newsletter Out of the Blue. This is the first week that I have started my Substack newsletter schedule that follows the following format.

• Sunday – Mindful Gardening.

• Monday – Out of the Blue (Summary)

• Tuesday – Unfolding Creativity.

• Wednesday – A Chakra Journey.

• Thursday – Bringing Heaven to Earth.

• Friday – A Yoga Life.

Out of the Blue contains the conclusions at the end of each of these newsletters. In this way readers with different interests might find an invitation that speaks to their heart. Here are the newsletter summaries that began on Sunday 23rd March 2025.

Sunday 23rd March, 2025

Mindful Gardening Newsletter No 52

Writing, Reflection, and the Inner Garden

As I sit with the fullness of a year’s worth of Mindful Gardening Newsletters, I feel the gentle tug of gratitude for the rhythm of this sacred work. Each season, each seedling, each setback and celebration has deepened my relationship with the Earth and with the quiet joy of tending life—within and without.

From leggy seedlings in the North-facing bedroom to plans for solar-powered heated benches… from birthday bunting to birdhouses… from iris and nasturtiums dancing like Monet’s palette along the hornbeam hedge to cups of tea cradled at dawn while I write… all of this is gardening. All of this is mindfulness. All of this is love in form.

When a garden is used as a place to pause for thought, that is when a Zen Garden comes to life. When you contemplate a garden like this it will form as lasting impression on your heart. - Muso Soseki in The Temple in the House by Anthony Lawlor

Gardening is more than growing plants. It is learning to live in rhythm with what is real. It is letting go of perfection and embracing Presence. It is making peace with the cycles of light and darkness and listening—truly listening—to what the land, the wind, and your heart song has to say to you.

Read full article HERE

Tuesday – 25th March 2025

Unfolding Creativity Newsletter

The Challenge of Keeping the Window Open

Everyone at some point in their life is called to keep the window open. This is the window of the heart. Our educational system doesn't train us for that. Religion is supposed to do so, but for the most part has failed miserably.

I wish that when you are lonely and in darkness that I could show you the magnificence of the light of your own BEING – Hafiz of Shiraz – mystic Sufi poet.

As an unfolding creative, I start my day in embodied silence. I focus on quieting the never-ending stream of thought with passes for thinking. I practice inner body awareness because it is through the body the experience of the singing bird is made manifest. I get empty so that I might be fulfilled.

Then I sit in that emptiness before a blank page and the words simply flow onto the page. Sometimes the hand stops. That's OK, but more often than not here is the experience of being like a river amazed by its own unfolding. (John O’Donohue). The singing bird by way of words on a page has arrived. While I am not ecstatic, I feel delighted. I am set up for another day of loving as a fulfilled unfolding, creative. How is it that you start your day?

Read full Article HERE

Wednesday – 26th March 2025

A Chakra Journey - Let the Journey Begin

The Premier Map for Unfolding the Potential Within You.

This map invites you to awaken the sleeping seeds of Purpose, Passion, Power, Peace, Prayer, Perception, and Presence that already live within you. These are not just chakra qualities—they are expressions of the soul longing to become known through your embodiment.

This is your call to tend the inner fire, to walk the path of YES—Your Energy System, and to remember the beauty that you are and make it the work that you do. Together we explore this living map—not only as information, but as transformation. Let each breath, each reflection, each moment of stillness be a doorway into the revelation of who you truly are. The journey has already begun. Say “YES.”

Read full article here - HERE

Thursday, 27th March, 2025

Bringing Heaven to Earth - Week 2 -Seek Yeh First?

An Invitation to Move Beyond Belief, Embrace Divine Presence, and Live the Light of Heaven Here and Now

This is the invitation of Bringing Heaven to Earth—not to believe in a distant promise, but to awaken to the living reality of Heaven as a present experience within you. The words of the Master Jesus were not meant to offer mere doctrine but to ignite direct realization: “The Kingdom of God is within you.” These words were not just radical in their time—they remain just as revolutionary today because they call for nothing less than a transformation of how we see ourselves, God, and existence itself.

The journey into this KNOWING is not about accumulating more theological knowledge or striving to be “good enough” for Heaven. It is about surrendering the false self, the separate identity that believes it must achieve or deserve divine union. Heaven is not a reward; it is a reality hidden in plain sight, obscured only by the veil of mistaken identity. When this veil is lifted, the imprisoned splendour—the radiant presence of the Divine—shines forth.

So, the invitation is this: Make the words “Heaven is within you” your guiding focus. Let them sink beyond the intellect and into your very being. Allow them to shape your seeing, your living, your surrender. Let them dissolve old concepts and open you to direct encounter. And in doing so, you may discover what has always been true: Heaven is not a distant place, but the reality of Divine Presence shining through you, waiting to be known. This is the path. This is the invitation. This is the unfolding revelation of Bringing Heaven to Earth.

Read the full article here HERE

Friday 28th March 2025

A Yoga Journey – Week 2 – What is Yoga?

Unveiling the Path to Union Beyond Form and Belief

The journey of yoga is not about acquiring something new but remembering what has always been. It is a return to the unity that has never been lost—only forgotten. Yoga, in its truest sense, is not merely a practice but a profound experience of BEING, an unfolding of the self into the SELF.

Your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can render the world.— Sri Ramana Maharshi

As we embark on this path together, we step beyond belief into revelation, beyond form into formlessness, beyond seeking into KNOWING. The invitation is not to learn something new but to unlearn all that keeps us from experiencing our inherent wholeness. This is the paradox of yoga: while we may feel separate, we are never truly apart.

If you feel the pull of this deeper journey—if something within you longs to die before you die, to shed illusion and step into the fullness of BEING—then welcome. The path is open, the adventure awaits. Will you take the step?

Read the full article here - HERE

Conclusion: A Window into the Whole

If you’re someone who feels drawn to beauty, depth, and the quiet voice that calls you back to yourself—this newsletter summary is for you. Out of the Blue is more than a summary; it’s a portal into the deeper story beneath the surface of everyday life.

Whether your path is creative expression, chakra exploration, spiritual contemplation, embodied presence, or mindful gardening—this weekly newsletter summary offers you a glimpse into the larger tapestry. It may be a sentence that stops you, a question that stirs you, or a reflection that feels like it was written just for you.

Each week is a journey. Each conclusion is an invitation. Subscribe to Out of the Blue to receive the distilled wisdom from:

• Unfolding Creativity

• A Chakra Journey

• Bringing Heaven to Earth

• A Yoga Life

• Mindful Gardening

Let these insights meet you where you are and carry you where you long to go. Subscribe now and let the still small voice Out of the Blue become a rhythm in your life.

Tony Cuckson Cordressagagh Ireland