The Urban Monk aims to provide a free additional voice, a companion, in your personal development journey inwards into yourself and outwards into the urban world - modern life, entwined with ancient spirituality.

The Art of Giving What You Don’t Have

Cute innocent babyWhat if we were to discover something very strange – what if we discovered that all our giving, our kindness and charity, had come from a place of lack and misunderstanding?

How to bring The Peace of Non-Resistance into your life now

“When hot be thoroughly hot, when cold be thoroughly cold.”

Right there in its simplicity is a beautiful, profound, little secret. It is the key to true emotional mastery. Can you guess what it is?

Aristotle vs. Urban Monk Round 3: The Highest Human Good and finding yours.

Why you can never fail to achieve your goals, and how to find out what your highest human good, according to Aristotle, is.

Aristotle vs. Urban Monk Round 2: Utilising Aristotelian intellectual virtues & ethics for a life of excellence.

This is Round 2 of Aristotle’s works on Happiness. It is based on the second statement that I have culled from his ideas - that happiness is based on living a life of excellence, a life of virtue.

Aristotle vs. Urban Monk Round 1: Finding Bliss. Success. Love.

Aristotle has some masterful works on the Human Good. What is the Human Good? Exactly everything this blog is about: Bliss. Success. Love. This is a summary of his works and practical tips on how you achieve them.

The most effective way to express words of gratitude

This is how I multiplied my income by 8 for one sweet day.
This is how I cleared my head of all unhappiness for one beautiful week.
What is this that I speak of? Gratitude.
My last post was on the power of Gratitude. In it, I wrote about how being grateful for the bad things that happened […]

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