John Siddique

Dear one

This May we’ll be sharing this open true space with the help of our beautiful friends at Meditatio Centre, London

All you need bring is your sweet simple self (and maybe a journal and pen might be handy)

sending love to all the #Deadheads on here today. May the four winds blow Bobby safely home

#bobbyweir #gratefuldead

Join us for our Solstice Open #meditation

Three Faces #Graffiti (Manchester UK) - taken with #FujifilmX100VI #photography #streetart

'Reading poem a day might be one of those things that keeps the undertaker away.' - John

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Turner Prize winner Nnena Kalu 'gives hope and light' | WritersMosaic Magazine John Siddique reviews the Turner Prize 2025 nominees, exhibiting at the Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford.

My review of The Turner Prize 2025 is now live at writersmosaic.

This year’s shortlist carries a rare soul-led quality. It was a privilege to spend time with the work of Rene Matic, MohammedSami, Zadie Xa, and this year’s winner NnenaKalu

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YouTube video by John Siddique Live Your Life This Day - Authentic Living #1

In this short walk in the woods, we begin exploring how your actual, ordinary life can become a spiritual practice – simple ways to notice what’s true for you and live more authentically, from the inside out.

youtu.be/dhtsVOFX_9s?... #meditation #nature

Loved this episode of the deadcast Jesse - thank you. Hoping for a lovely One From The Vault reissue one of these days given the whole treatment. Such an important show and album to so many of us.

A Miracle : You Have Lived To See The Dawn

Question : What Will You Express From Your Soul Today?

#fujifilmx100vi #sooc #photography

‘Nowhere is the dreamer
Or the misfit so alone…

SUBDIVISIONS

confirm or be cast out’

#Shelfie Selfie in Black & White

A new meditation for you - recorded in a live setting so a bit chatty but is very supportive in helping to@support your mental and emotional health and bring you insight in your life @insighttimer

Love to you this day
John

Please Share With Those You Feel Might Benefit From This Practice

‘For me literature has always been my country, and the flag of my soul is the only one I’m prepared to stand for.

’https://johnsiddique.substack.com/p/on-writing-an-impossible-piece

An incredible day in the recording studio producing Tahmina Ali and Connor Allen for a new audio series I’ve been blessed to exec produce with Ishy Din for writersmosaic / royalliteraryfund - launching soon

Can’t wait you all to hear this series - it’s very special indeed.

#fujifilmx100vi

The Only Way Out is Though

#fujifilmx100vi #photograhy

Woke at five and wrote for hours on a piece that is rewriting my entire existence as an author. Whether the piece when done - and I’ve got a long time frame - is releasable or not… it’s like a new author’s heart is being born out of my old one and it’s fire.

Six Images From A Peace Garden The idea of peace gardens have long held a place in my heart and thoughts, and I’ve often considered that if I had the means I would create a series of peace gardens around the world for the benefit o...

Six Images From A Peace Garden

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This Sept 🙏🏽

Non celeb author publishes children’s book

Have actually been here with my kids’ book - not a word if a lie here #priateeye #books

you are invited to
The best lil' ole pointing to the truth of self on the internet

well we're okay - what is best?

we turn up

we're for real

we're not living a social media life of meme

and we like people...

Obviously not for everybody and we never try to be.

Early morning - listening to the birds outside in tbe rain and allowing room to hear my own soul and life again after a week down the literary mines of book voices. #photography #fujifilm100vi

Preps for #globalcrimequeens @writersmosaic.bsky.social
Saima Mir
Nadine Mathieson
Kia Abdullah at the mighty #bradfordlitfest this coming Sunday

You’d better be there or they’ll make you an offer you can’t refuse haha

True practice is never a rejection of or an addition to who we are - it is the illumination of ourselves with the light and love that is throughout.

Handwritten dedication of the closing verse we use at the end of all our practices - sent to us by a beloved student dedicated to living with awareness in their own sweet human life.

#meditation #awakening #love

Arrival @bradfordlitfest greenroom.
Coffee & literary considerations

Thank you for this blessed treasure of a life
Thank you each and every reader

John

#books

Eagled eyed readers will spot a very very rare copy of The Devil’s Lunchbox

A must-read, @johnsiddique.bsky.social in @thebookseller.com 👇🏽

Yours truly in the bookseller
Talking on how The Royal Literary Fund & @writersmosaic.bsky.social and my work in the north is developing a better landscape for authors and readers.

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In this event, we will discuss how counterterrorism laws and surveillance reshaped civil liberties, the impact on British Muslim identity.

📅 - Sunday 29 June
🏛️ - Bradford Live

Book your tickets here: 🔗
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#SevenSeven #BradfordLitFest

A glorious sunlit morning and the postman brings the summer issue of The Author magazine. Where yours truly discusses both the beautiful & yet oftentimes difficult aspects of the writer’s life, and we gently suggest a meditation practice that can really support our creative and ordinary lives.

The best way to increase your practice is to dedicate your turning up in life for the truest illumination and benefit of all beings

This card is available as a free download for Open Space Members and will be more generally available soon.

#meditation