"Now, should one fulfil the desires or eliminate them? The first principle is that one should fulfil one's desires. The second law is that desire cannot be satisfied. Therefore, the third principle is that one must practise both. If possible, one should aim…

"Ultimately, poetry is the pouring of the divine consciousness through the pen of the master poet." - Bijay Raut, The Heart of The Mind





Available at http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/bijayraut

"The Heart of the Mind" immediately stands out as a poet's quest to epitomize progressive human experiences - beginning from love, to…

John Muir: My life with Nature

by Joseph Cornell

( from the book's back cover )

John Muir: My Life with Nature 

by Joseph Cornell 

Illustrations by Elizabeth Ann Kelley and Christopher Canyon 

(Nevada City: …

Fortune is not found by

the diggers of gold or by those

who scavenge the marketplace

Fortune is not theirs who dive

into oceans to find what those

before them could afford to lose…

by Tsenzhab Serkong Rinpoche I

Recognizing Suffering

The Sanskrit word …

Your mind can be in five different states. It can be inert. That means it is not activated at all -- it is in a rudimentary state. If you energize an inert mind, the mind becomes active but scattered. If you energize it further, it is no longer scattered, but oscillating. If you energize it…

Enlightenment or evolution has got two steps. The first step is from becoming somebody to nobody. It is not getting stuck in something or somebody. You get stuck being somebody in two cases - either you are too special or you are hopeless. People get stuck in the seat. If you don't give them a…

Salt Doll

In search of truth

did I go back and forth

 

Wandered through Mountains

bathed in rivers sacred, with the pious

 

Whichever way the blind pointed

with hope and zest me travelled

 

Every which way I smelled the…

by Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev

It does not matter how much people preach "don't get angry"; when certain situations arise, you get angry. It does not matter what kind of human being you become; even if you become superhuman, you will never have absolute control over the external world.…

By Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Meditation is the journey from movement to stillness, from sound to silence. The need is present in you to meditate because it is your natural tendency to look for undiminished joy and love that doesn’t distort or turn negative.

Is meditation alien to us? That’s…

Be in the Center,

Be in the Spine,

There is Everything,

From Worldly to Divine,

Live with Detachment,

Live with Joy,

Everything is God's Leela…

Read on Amazon.com…

MEDITATION

During the last twenty years a steadily rising number of people have experimented with meditation as a way to either relieve the stresses and strains of modern life or to enhance their natural wisdom. However, it seems very few…

I emphasize the importance of learning how to stay centered in a stressful, highly emotionally charged world. Since emotions such as fear, anger, and frustration are energies, you can potentially “catch” them from people without realizing it. If you tend to be an emotional sponge, it’s vital to…

Happy New Year



Like the dew drops in the early morning grass,

Fresh and clear as pearls in the rays of sunshine,

Like the blossoming of magnolia in the early spring,

Gracefully clad in white as a beautiful bride,

Like the eastern sky in the early dawn,

Magnificently bright with the glow of the rising Sun,

Like the spark on her face…

This article is written by Bronnie Ware, a palliative care worker who has worked with a countless number of patients who are sadly seeing their last days on earth. When Bronnie had questioned the patients about any regrets they had or anything they would do differently, common themes surfaced again and again. Here are the most common five:…

When the day seeks to rest,

It pleads the Sun to set,

When the workers wipe the sweaty forehead,

The cool air breezes from the distant ahead,

When the crops sink to soak the soil,

The farmers lay their tools to rest,

When the babies sing the evening chirps,

The mother birds return to their nests,

When the lovers long for the solitude,

The dusk invites with its twilight fade,

When my heart…

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as…

Restoring Right-Brain "Feminine" Values to Society

 by Dale Allen

“The male is by nature superior, and the female inferior; the one rules, and the…