Voices from the field — writings on inner transformation, gift ecology, collective coherence, and the quiet experiments that ripple outward.
Happiness is not a Pursuit - It is a Practice... - Unknown Dear Friends, Thank you for Joining Maitri Circle this Friday. It was a wonderful evening of togetherness, meaningful sharing, deep...
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Before writing my experience about the Awakin Circles, I would like to narrate a story about it how it all started. About 5 years ago, My parents had gone to Nipun Mehta Uncle’s talk...
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[Recently, some organizational leaders reached out to us about learning from our design process for a new product/service they're launching. Few of us were on the call, and in response to a...
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“I dedicate myself to this space until my last breath, only my bier (dead body) will go FROM this space.” Amrut Kaka shared on his birthday celebration on 26th June 2020m (above pic was...
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Every week a few friends of the Vadodara ecosystem come together to cultivate stillness, community, and service. What started as a one-time call in the first week of lockdown has become a weekly...
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It has been a lock-down period in India since March. Children and parents alike have been confined to home. A time ... may be first ever in one’s life ... when parents and children are together...
Read moreGlimpses into the lives of ordinary people leading exemplary lives. Most were written during a walking pilgrimage and offered in the spirit of gratitude.
"If anything, the purpose of life is to solve problems. If you don't have your own, solve other people's problems."
"No set prayer. I let it happen naturally. First, I make a full bow to all the realized masters and ask them to help me realize my true nature. Then, I sit in silence and let prayer happen."
"Believe in your Dreams," she says, not once but many times.
"I haven't been sick for the past fifty years. No cold, no flu, no diarrhea, no sore throat, nothing." What's his secret? "To live with joy" he confidently reports with a big smile.
"Gandhi had many many weakenesses. But he had one strength --when he found truth, he wouldn't let it go."
"I have one princple: whatever you don't like in others, make sure you don't do that yourself. That's it. No karma, no God, no after life, nothing doing."
Forget the harvest. As much as you seek, that's how much you'll be obstructed. Don't seek Enlightenment. Just bow.
"Much of what we do is like planting trees under which we may never sit, but plant we must." ~~motto, Reaching the Unreached
"We can't change the world. But we can take care of what we can touch."
"Like the in breath and the out breath," she says, "you gather the light and give it out. That's just the way it works."
"I don't ask anyone for anything. I never have. Expectations is what creates problems."
"A still mind is what gives me joy. There is so much joy that you won't believe it. Nothing else exists there. That is home."
"Yes, I'm ready to die. Or anything else. If we all keep on fighting, we will all kill each other." Hamida Chandul exclaims.
"Our bottom line is joy. We are here to share our joy in the world," Vikrambhai Patel says.
"And the way to be happy, is to make people happy. And to have a little heaven right here," Shrutiben Shroff sings.
"Goodness always prevails. Life is great, isn't it?," Jagdish Shah triumphantly asks.
"Necessity used to be the mother of invention. Today, invention is the mother of necessity."
"Inspirations? The sky because it's infinite. My mom. The sea because it flows effortlessly despite taking on all burdens."
"Do you know the Truth about life. I'll tell you -- whatever happens is the truth. That's it."
"We did not want to exploit -- or be exploited. So we just moved out of the city."
"We began contributing in a small way and continued to take small positive steps forward instead of looking for giant leaps."
