Just when everyone has gone into isolation I am emerging from self-imposed hibernation to write this piece. A week or so before the closure of schools due to the Covid-19 pandemic, there was high drama in our daughter’s household. Their soon-to-be-six (going-on-sixteen) daughter got back from school one afternoon and excitedly told her parents and …
Faking Authenticity?
The late mystic Osho related a story about two friends setting out for a walk early one morning. Said one to the other, “Oh, look at that lovely rose; the bud is just starting to blossom and looks beautiful with dewdrops glistening on its unfurling petals in this early morning light”. With barely a glance …
Students …taliban
Parents crossed another annual milestone as kids started school earlier this week. Just getting ready for the big day can be quite a stressful time for some folks. Slick marketing campaigns beleaguer students and their parents until they acquire the “back to school” essentials and feel reassured that their wards are all set to commence …
Music … religion of humanity
I recently read “The Mysticism of Music, Sound and Word”, a collection of lectures by Hazrat Inayat Rehmat Khan, founder of Sufi Order in the West (London, England) and a teacher of Universal Sufism. In a passage from this book, Hazrat states: “The greatest error of this age is that activity has increased so much, …
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