Perspectives...

On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure.  Even a little effort towards spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear.                                                                  The Bhagavad Gita(2:40) The vagaries of life are splendid. There will be numerous people to please, expectations to be met, successes to be had, money to be earned, house to be built, the greatest car  to be bought...I could go on and on but I will still miss out on the expansive but extremely superficial outer world. The Gita calls it  maya  and it has no less splendor than a grand opera. The more twists and turns, the more emotions it conjures, the more interesting the show is for the audience. So why did I venture outside of the show?...because I was not having fun anymore. In many respects, I lived a life which would make for a good movie, with its highs and lows. The definitions of success that were defined to me were mostly all met. The toil and the h

I find myself in the silence of your breath,      in the rising and falling of it, I find myself in the words you never speak, I find myself when I my fingers run through your hair;     when time has no meaning left,     neither does my name as an identity, nor my physical body, I find myself in the sparkle of your eyes,     in that deep awareness within us that knows, I find myself in the spaciousness I constantly feel in my heart,     I find myself in love...

Most people believe that we are human beings having a spiritual experience But the reality is that we are spiritual beings having a human experience... --Unknown

Whatever you are doing right now, at this very exact moment, is what you are exactly supposed to do. There is no right or wrong. 

so you want to be a writer if it doesn’t come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don’t do it. unless it comes unasked out of your heart and your mind and your mouth and your gut, don’t do it. if you have to sit for hours staring at your computer screen or hunched over your typewriter searching for words, don’t do it. if you’re doing it for money or fame, don’t do it. if you’re doing it because you want women in your bed, don’t do it. if you have to sit there and rewrite it again and again, don’t do it. if it’s hard work just thinking about doing it, don’t do it. if you’re trying to write like somebody else, forget about it. if you have to wait for it to roar out of you, then wait patiently. if it never does roar out of you, do something else. if you first have to read it to your wife or your girlfriend or your boyfriend or your parents or to anybody at all, you’re not ready. don’t be like so many write

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature -- trees, flowers, grass -- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence. We need silence to be able to touch souls.                                                                                                        - Mother Teresa You are inherently a fiery one. You are always ready to take it head on, irrespective of who is on the other side. The slightest of slights makes you uncomfortable and a few more, takes you to the edge and there is no looking back. You fall! Emotions run high and you find yourself crying out loud, with guilt, with anger, a combination of both. You don't want to hurt anyone but it seems like a knee jerk reaction. You feel a certain power in responding fiercely, but it is quick to fade. I think adrenaline has something to do with it...who knows. Many such situations will present itself in front

If you are only in a statue,      I don't think I can trust you, If you are only in religious scriptures,      I am wary of you, If you reside only in a mosque, temple, synagogue or church,      I don't think i can connect with you; But if you are in my mother's anxious love In my father's unconditional everything In my husband's secret romance If you are the wind, the trees, the grass, the forest, the essence in my favorite books If you are the goodness I possess And if you are the drive in me to be of service... Then I don't think I have a choice, but to surrender and embrace you...