20 pieces so far, by category. The newest are first in each.
Village people churned butter early because the early air makes better butter. So clean the mind early.
If my house has rubbish, would I also carry in my neighbour's? Notes on not speaking about others, and why.
A world benefactor is someone who holds a kind feeling for every soul and for nature. Three feelings make it up.
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A world benefactor is someone who holds a kind feeling for every soul and for nature. Three feelings make it up.
A flower connected to its whole family under the water and still not touched by it.
Knowledge is a mirror, and a prince is not a beggar. Two pages of notes on being someone who gives.
Why change looks worse before it looks better.
The first idea in Rajyoga class, and why my teacher calls it meditation.
Eight inner abilities I was asked to build, and one thing I noticed about my own judgments.
A ladder of seven qualities I was taught, and the idea that being good is a need of the soul, not a choice.
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Village people churned butter early because the early air makes better butter. So clean the mind early.
If my house has rubbish, would I also carry in my neighbour's? Notes on not speaking about others, and why.
Two kinds of storm, one with a forecast and one without, and a way of looking at the second kind.
The two words I was given as a mantra for the whole practice.
Three small rules for speech, and what too much talking costs me.
Remembering while I work, and sitting down for a full remembrance when I can.
Start with yourself. A simple writing practice, and two ideas about what feeds the soul.
Don't react, smile and speak, and say the true thing the next day with courtesy.
The short sentences I copy out in my notebook, and why I keep the notebook by my pillow.
We are not bad and not wrong. We have only been eating the wrong food, and the mind eats through the ears, eyes and mouth.
A small daily habit: notice what I say to myself, and choose words for what I want.
2 pieces
A return home that could've read as defeat, and what it actually taught me about parents, excess, and humility.
Four days at a mind-body medicine conference in Mount Abu, and the one idea that kept surfacing underneath all of it.