Guru: that which brings understanding to our ignorance. Found: in a child’s wonder, a teacher’s guidance, an inspirational reading, a friend’s empathy, an embodied person, the teacher within…. The Guru is the hidden force in a poem, a person, a gaze, or a conversation that lifts our spirits, inspires us to be greater than we […]
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Another great soul has departed this earth. I, along with many others, called her Mataji (beloved mother), and she was my teacher. How do I talk about the depth of love she evoked in me? How do I express her life-changing wisdom that guided my life in the direction of contentment? Where do I find
I have been reading Philip Shepherd’s book New Self New World. Along with many other observations, Shepherd notes that when humans learned how to build houses, the result was they successfully “created a space…that securely shut out the world of nature”. Emphasizing this point, Shepherd adds that the Warumungu of Australia called white men “enclosure
As the New Year approaches it is easy to find ourselves thinking about the things we “should” do next year. Our shortcomings become the guiding frame of our New Year’s focus, and our energy goes into efforts at improvement. What if we did something entirely different this year? What if, instead of imposing improvement on
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