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: Dawn Publications, 2000)

Biography *…

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

In search of fortune, the pittance

that has enslaved too many…

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 even further, it becomes one-pointed. If you energize it still further,…

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 proper seat, that's it. That pushes their button. “What difference…

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 scent

but round and round is all I went

 

Wasted lives to know…

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. Whether it is with the company you work for, your family or the…

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 not true because you have been in meditation even before…

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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 persevere and build the practice of meditation into their…

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 know how to avoid taking on an individual’s negative emotions or…

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 fair, And having perhaps the better claim,…

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 other is ruled; this principle, of necessity, extends to all…

Question:

Is renunciation and celibacy important for attaining Moksha? If celibacy is not important then why do monks take that path? How does renunciation help the monks better than laymen? In what ways is their path better compared to those who lead a married life? Request you to answer this for…