Evolution is a process that most of us associate with a geological time scale — the slow elucidation of life over the last 3.5 billion years. We also tend to assume that the most recent signs of continuing evolution must be happening in species with short life spans and rapid reproductive rates. A team of …
It is not the Sun that turns around us: the Sun doesn't come to shine down upon us. In fact, it is we who turn our faces toward the Sun. An important distinction. The sun was not made for us. We were made, and the Sun exists. From a birthright to a gift. From a …
It is interesting that, in a country whose infrastructure is far less consistently developed than that of our own digital nation, I had far greater success in posting thoughts and impressions to this journal than I do now that I am home. Part of it is, of course, that the sheer volume of experiences, their …
I expect that, having passed my bedtime by several hours now, I am exempt from morning yoga. There are some things you really must not allow to be pushed, though — the least effort is spent maintaining a ritual, then the ritual helps maintain everything else (such as reasonable sleeping hours and subsequent mental and …
Mrs. Rat Mrs. Rat was a good business woman. She ran a successful vegetable stall by the roadside. It was called "Cosmic Vegetables". Sometimes she would take the day off, and then hang up a somewhat curious sign which read: Closed. We have no mistakes today. This is due to the absence of mismanagement. …
Look: this beautiful dream.
I find in my readings that many of the experiences I have had, many of the thoughts to which I have been exposed — to which I have exposed myself — along my seeking path, have been spoken before. Some of them in ancient texts, whose context and imagery demand a certain patience and quiet …
The pattern for everything in life exists — within everything that exists. The strength of modern scientific process which seeks to name all things, giving them genus, order and phylum, or physical properties which can be described by the arc of an equation, carries its own limitations: by disconnecting one object from another, we gain …
uma carta é o coração dobrado endereçado, enviado parcela de pétalas brancas pétalas derramando do livro aberto das mãos uma carta é coração destilado decifrado, recombinado em músicas de pétalas de flor pétalas oferecidas aos vasos abertos das mãos cinzas nas veias vegetais trilhas à caminhos traçam passagem-fogueira dos tempos deslumbrantes ao atardecer …
Arrival follows departure and, unless you work tirelessly to avoid them, solitary travel invariably collects companions.
The experience of the sitar performance was moving — to close your eyes in that resounding space and hear the passage of melody and the underlying drone beneath, as though, like any music, you were being carried along on a river of sound. It is a great protective space, music masterfully played, even if the …
Every night at the ashram, after an evening chant and before dinner, there are fifteen minutes of music. And every night, after dinner, one or two hours. The musicians play as a devotion, an offering to the sanctuary and to those who come here as their church. The sanctuary is rather large; the floor is …