“Now, I have no choice but to see with your eyes, So I am not alone, so you are not alone.” Yanks Ritsos There is a story of Gandhi that reveals how profound and daring his sense of compassion was. It occurred during one of his famous hunger strikes. A man who...
If not now, when? Since surviving cancer, there is a burning bit of truth I live with every day. Sometimes it doesn’t let me sleep, but most of the time, it brings me great joy. No one uttered this to me, and I didn’t arrive at it or work at it. It just revealed...
Burning your way to centre is the loneliest fire of all. You’ll know you have arrived when nothing else will burn. At first this sounds rather somber, but from Moses to Buddha to Jesus, the deepest among us have all shown that living is a process of constantly paring...
“For the raindrop, joy is entering the river.” The Sufi Prophet Ghalib It is amazing to consider how as infants we are one with everything. In time, of course, we learn how to distinguish between ourselves and others, between the world we carry inside and the world we...
No amount of thinking can stop thinking. Overthinking is an annoying reflex of being human. Often in overanalyzing a problem or replaying what to say or what to do, I feel like a cow shooing a fly that will never go away. We all do this. No one is exempt. Feeling...
