A blank sheet of paper is not intimidating. It’s comforting. It is silence. That is, if you come to that blank page, not to achieve something, not to produce something, but simply to receive with gentle curiosity whatever that blank page may have to say to you. Then it holds you softly in it’s embrace… Continue reading Listening can happen years later
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No Different Kinds of Love
Among the plethora of videos available to view nowadays, and new ones being generated each second, here is one more — No Different Kinds of Love. It says that while relationships may be different — such as between parent-child, girl-boy, among friends — but the love is the same. There are no different kinds of… Continue reading No Different Kinds of Love
Touch The Bark of A Tree
Does the tree cry inside, as it grows, pushing aside the very earth that nourished it? “You are so calm!” she said. Touch the bark of a tree. You will know many unknowns. “Oh how you flower, tree!” Work happens not in summer. Work happens not in spring, or in August. That is just delivery… Continue reading Touch The Bark of A Tree
When The Leaf Trembles
We all want conducive, beautiful environments of laughter, joy and ease. Spring is beautiful. However, storms do come in our lives. There is no point saying they shouldn’t. They come. There is no point saying he should not do this, he should not do that. He does what he does. There is no point saying… Continue reading When The Leaf Trembles
Find Your Own Resolve
This piece written spontaneously one day has helped me tremendously in navigating relationships and keeping focus. Now I am an adult – I must eat my own food, clean my own clothes. Whether I can contribute in anyone else’s life or not at least I should be able to feed myself – no grown animal… Continue reading Find Your Own Resolve
A Different Durga For This Mahishasur
He just sat there receiving all the arrows I was unleashing at him. “I don’t like you,” I said, in no uncertain terms. I had been feeling such distaste, such dislike for him that I would not even look at him at the dining table. After a few days of receiving this treatment, he asked… Continue reading A Different Durga For This Mahishasur
Seeing Us With Wonder
I have seen how vast and wondrous you are and that is a permanent. Your present behavior does not change that in any way. You are hitting out wildly in the dark. That will not dent me because I am vast and wondrous myself. I am light. Hitting wildly at light does nothing. It gives… Continue reading Seeing Us With Wonder
The Lotus Cannot Be Condescending
Lotuses are found in white and pink colors in general and they grow in shallow and murky waters. ~ theflowerexpert.com The lotus cannot have a condescending attitude towards the waters it grows in. If it does that, it will not be able to grow and bloom. It won’t be any fun either. Lotus – called… Continue reading The Lotus Cannot Be Condescending
My Niece Unlimited
A conversation transpired with my niece recently. She was pulling at my swimming goggles. “Don’t. It will break.”, I said. “It’s elastic.”, she replied. “It is rubber.” “But it stretches.” “Sure. But everything has a limit.” “What is my limit?”, she asked. “You would have to find that out.” Then I added, “Actually you are… Continue reading My Niece Unlimited
One Single Human Here
The suffering on this planet –
it is one single pain
What are you fighting against
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