Photo by Ram
What I’m sharing with you today is an email that I wrote on Dec 31 last year, to one of my closest friends. I celebrated my birthday a couple of days ago, and amidst all the happy and fun-filled moments I also spent a few quiet moments reflecting on the year gone by. It got me thinking about this email… Rereading it now I found it quite inspiring and sort of bittersweet, and I hope it will stir something beautiful deep inside you too.
Intricate yantras
Yantras are present in the world of nature as the crystalline forms in minerals and in snowflakes. [...] The universe consist of a pulsating network of cosmic forces, of Shiva and Shakti energies, that create various geometrical patterns, through which all forms are structured. The universe is a great yantra of incredible power and intricate beauty that one can contemplate forever.
~ Inner Tantric Yoga by David Frawley
Adyashanti
I stayed up really late last night, just to listen to Adyashanti’s live webradio show. Or, as he put it, to join the virtual sangha. I’m so happy I did, because it was wonderful! The theme of the show was deep listening, the flip side of trying to control.
Wishing you a sparkling, twinkling Diwali filled with lots of love and light! Lighten up and have fun, be free ♥
…we’re all made of stars – shine on!! :)
Hrithik Roshan
Perfection lies in being real.
~ Hrithik Roshan
Watching Hrithik Roshan in conversation with Farah Khan on her show Tere Mere Beach Mein the other day, I was deeply moved. It wasn’t only because of the intimately personal moments and emotional experiences he shared on camera (about his struggles with stuttering and the fact that he has a double thumb), but maybe even more the honesty and sincerity with which he expressed himself.
Photo by Leelawadee
I was attending an ayurveda lecture some weeks ago, and I had a confusing but fascinating sense of worlds colliding. You know, the kind of collision that only happens when two things that are not separate are coming together. I’m writing this post in an attempt to get some clarity, to have a proper look at what I got a fleeting glimpse of, out of the corner of my eye.
Photo by Leelawadee
Although it might not ultimately be up to me to choose, I’d rather end up with I don’t mind than I don’t care.
Art by Omkali
What would it be like letting go of everything that I don’t need anymore, all that which has already played out its part?
Shah Rukh Khan
I want to die having had every person in the world smile.
~ Shah Rukh Khan
Fuelled by masala chai I'm breathing through the bittersweet lessons and challenges of Shiva's tough love, slowly discovering the art of becoming empty. I am coming undone, finding myself once again... and it is t/here, waiting with arms wide open. Shanti ♥
