Now I’m Inspired Even When I Lose!
How happy can we ever be , if we lost a game? I was wondering this when I was reminded of a very sweet experience. I met my friend Reva , a five year old girl who taught me the happiness in...
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Voices from the field — writings on inner transformation, gift ecology, collective coherence, and the quiet experiments that ripple outward.
Transformation Without And Transformation Within
Just as the Navratri celebrations culminated signifying the ending of the old and beginning of the new, it was time for another Head, Hands, Heart retreat from October 14-16, 2016. With the...
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Maitri Meals - Meals For Friendship
A Maitri Meal as the name suggests is meal for friendship, a meal which not only connects friends but connects the cook with the one who is enjoying it. This friendship is not an ordinary friendship,...
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Beauty In Monotony — Teach For India Retreat
[Originally Posted by Teach for India team]Teach for India teachers were recently in ESI Sughad campus for a 2-day service retreat. Whether it was sitting in silence, picking rags, serving food,...
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'What I Learned From My Time With Jayeshbhai'
There are few things more difficult than capturing profound experiences in words. Language becomes like fetters that limit how far one can venture. However, fettered in language, I still try to...
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Reflections From A Recent Adventure With Life And Death
It’s amazing how time keeps moving on leaving behind subtle traces of learning to be picked up and placed in such a way so as to complete the puzzle. My life was almost turned upside down when...
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Seeing The Extra Ordinary In The Ordinary
The Moved by Love retreat this September had a beautiful theme woven into its gentle yet expansive being. As 40 beautiful pilgrims from across the country gathered to meet each other in 'Maitri',...
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The Joy Of Serving From The Heart At Seva Cafe
[Originally Posted by Linki Arora]“Atithi devo bhava”- All of us thoroughly know the connotation, “The guest is equivalent to God" but do we honestly feel the happiness we gain...
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Discovering The Light Beyond Darkness
In June, we started holding sharing circles with 20 children being tried for sexual offenses at the Observation Home. In a session on gratitude, the children expressed the desire to do...
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Flowers Bloom At Different Speeds, So Do Children
[Vijayam Kartha is a life-long educator. Her journey started as a librarian in 1974, then kept getting prompted till she became principal of a 3200 children school, and then director of a network of...
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Lessons From Living In Nature
On a rainy Sunday evening, several of us came together at The Urban Ashram, Pune, for a heart-lifting conversation with Nisha. Presented below is a transcript of her candid sharing followed by...
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Unseen Delicacies - An Inclusion Event
On 18th June 2016, an inclusion event was held at Bangalore called "Unseen Delicacies". This event was one of its own kind-- as the theme was to demonstrate culinary skills of a person...
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An Incredible Journey From Being A Victim To A Healer
It takes more courage to examine the dark corners of your own soul than it does for a solider to fight on a battlefield- W.B.Yeats This year I witnessed an incredible journey of six Bangladeshi...
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Tagline Suggestions
Recently, Chris (Christopher Lowman, aka Krishna) who many of you know from Ahmedabad, sent us a mail with interesting inputs. One of the main things that caught my eye was the tagline,...
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‘The Meera Sang With Ektara’ - Maitri
[Originally Posted by Sanchi Chandana] I never have been able to know what we are doing in the retreats, why are we doing what we are doing and for whom! But one thing I always keep in my heart...
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Beyond Fear Lies Freedom
I’ve experienced that my mind is a very fearful master and my heart is not strong enough to overcome the commands of this master. I always been taught to err on the side of caution and I am a...
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Serving With Smiles
On the eve of Friendship Day eve, a few of us got together to surprise the senior residents of Narmada Niketan. We reached there just before the scheduled dinner time, and quickly decorated the...
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Reflections From A 2nd Class Train Journey
I traveled in 2nd class unreserved compartment in train while traveling back recently from Vipassana centre. This was like working out of my comfort zone of traveling alone, without a reserved seat,...
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MBL Call Updates, July 30th
This month's MBL call started with a J Krishnamurti reading on Simplicity of the Heart. Deven opened the share with a story of 2 monks and a woman. He reflected on the importance of the...
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Maitri Space In Rishikesh (India)
While in strengthening the spirit of "it is in giving that we receive" moved by love hosted its current Maitri Space gathering, Jayesh bhai who invisibly anchors the sacred space was...
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"It Is In Giving, That We Receive."
The ESI campus was buzzing with a different energy as many of us came together in Maitri Space for a gathering after a long summer break. Volunteers had signed up way in advance from various parts...
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