Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee is a Sufi teacher and author. His most recent book, Seeding the Future, is available as a free pdf.

The focus of his writing and teaching is on spiritual responsibility in our present time of transition, spiritual ecology and an awakening global consciousness of oneness. His many books include Spiritual Ecology: The Cry of the Earth and Including the Earth in Our Prayers: A Global Dimension to Spiritual Practice.

Love, Care and Community

Journal Article

Love and care for each other and for the Earth Herself tell a story so different to the discord and divisiveness that shouts all around us. It takes us back to roots that nourish us in the soil and the soul.

Published in Summer | Fall 2022
By Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

Watching River Otters

Journal Article

Watching the river otters playing, I know that there is a deeper truth to our journey, older than any belief or ideology, and far from the discords of today.

Published in Winter 2022
By Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

Death and Rebirth

Journal Article

We do know that we have to learn to live in harmony with the earth and her more-than-human inhabitants. We can no longer afford to be exiles in our own land, starved of what is sacred.

Published in Winter 2021
By Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

The Labyrinth and the Black Madonna

Journal Article

We cannot return to the innocence of an earlier time, but this bond between humanity and creation remains, hidden beneath all the debris of our culture.

Published in Summer 2020
By Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

Holding a Seed for the Future

Journal Article

The future will not be as we have planned—our world is already too far out of balance. But this may be our most important gift to future generations—a belief in living Oneness.

Published in Winter 2019
By Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

Including the Earth in Our Prayers

Journal Article

We need to reclaim the simple truth that spiritual life is not solely about ourselves, and open to a larger, all-embracing vision. If spiritual life is not about the whole, it has lost its true nature.

Published in Fall 2019
By Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

Rejoining the Great Conversation

Journal Article

[Greta Thunberg’s words] brought tears to my eyes, as my soul heard her speak about real care for the Earth—for this living, beautiful being who has given us life, who has nourished us with Her endless generosity, even as we have abused and desecrated Her, raped and pillaged Her body, which our culture regards greedily as just a “resource” for our endless use and abuse.

Published in Spring 2019
By Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

Unity and the Power of Love

Journal Article

Oneness is not a metaphysical idea but something essential and ordinary. It is in every breath, in the wing-beat of every butterfly, in every piece of garbage left in on city streets.

Published in Fall 2018
By Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

What is the Greatest Power in Creation?

News Item

Kosmos Classic
Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee and Kosmos editor, Rhonda Fabian shared this exchange, on February 19, 2015.

Kosmos: Teacher, what aspect or quality of our essential human nature can best counteract the powerful pull of consumerism and greed that traps so many?

Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee: Love is the greatest power in creation, and the most essential quality of our human nature that is needed to help change our present situation, particularly our love and care for the Earth.

February 24, 2015 in News Items
By Rhonda Fabian