Launching MBL Video Conference Calls!
After an eventful 2015, this year has already been packed with lots of events. Already, we've held three retreats in Ahmedabad with volunteer support from many like Aabha,...
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Voices from the field — writings on inner transformation, gift ecology, collective coherence, and the quiet experiments that ripple outward.
Ten Soliders And A Small Act Of Kindness
We read this story below and thought of all of you. --Jaideep “I put my carry-on in the luggage compartment and sat down in my assigned seat. It was going to be a long flight to Delhi....
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Upasthiti - MBL 'Head, Hands And Heart' Retreat,
‘I stopped trying to be perfect When I realized It’s enough to be present’ ---- Curtis Tyrone Jones Folks starting trickling in at ESI, Sughad from February 15 for the...
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The Re'love'ution Is Here!
“I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw, that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.” ~ Rabindranath Tagore~ Maitri Space in Sugadh, Ahmedabad was...
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Sanitation On Wheels
This weekend we had the chance to visit a rural community in India, which is something quite different to what we are used to. We went to Chadotar, a village in the northwest part of Gujarat. The...
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Startup Service: Life-Transforming Questions For
Questions like "Who am I?" and "What is the real purpose of my life?" can evoke a wide spectrum of reflections because we live in the co-presence of two worlds, the inner and...
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Gift Of Love From London To India :)
As it happens... A couple of weeks ago, I was at the Renewal hostel (where homeless people are temporarily housed to get support before moving on out into the world outside) where I hold a...
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Panya + Punya = Shunya
[Lesson From serving at a 10 day Vipassana course in Tamil Nadu.] Wake up call The alarm goes off at 3:45am. I bolt out of the bed and into the bathroom. I open the tap to wash my face, the...
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Group Photos (and Videos) From Last Month ...
We had so many circles, retreats, event in the last month ... that it was hard to keep up with it all, but below are some of the photos, videos and links that we remember seeing in our inboxes...
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NGO Retreat: A Journey From Head To Heart
After attending Startup Service a couple years ago and engaging with the Moved By Love ecosystem, the question arose of how to bring the spirit of love into my work in...
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Article In Phulchhab On S2!
Phulchhab has published written a beautiful article recently. Hope you will enjoy it too!
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Dec 8th Awakin Talk At Mumbai
The opportunity to hold an Awakin gathering at our home in suburban Mumbai presented itself silently around a week before it actually happened. The first response was the feeling of being blessed....
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Kalyan Mitra In Rajkot
When collective punya becomes stronger a doorway to deepen practices open. This is what Rajkot retreat was- a doorway-Kalyan mitra Milan. This was what we wished to dive deeper into at Rajkot...
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Smiles On The Streets Of Surat
[Originally Posted by Zeal Shah] It all started when we met volunteers at the Surat retreat and their talks about their experience of spreading smiles and kindness to random people on streets...
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Our First Surat Retreat!
It all started with Parag bhai's intention to share the spirit of giftivism in our local Surat community. It's been inspiring to see the spirit with which such an intention has bloomed in...
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Being The Change, Changes The Being
About 35 of us gathered for three days on November 20, 2015 at the ESI campus with an intention to explore the question of how we could be the instrument of change in our own environment in our own...
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Maitri Milan 2015 - Connecting Through Maitri, Service
“The mathematical rules which are true for a small triangle are equally true for a big one.” Said Vinoba Bhave as he referred to the problems of the world and how they could be solved...
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The Train Ride To Communion!
In the opening circle of our ongoing Moved by Love retreat, we posed the following question to the participants "Could you please share a story of a time when you experienced "being the...
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Mihir And His Train Journey From Surat To Ahmedabad :)
In the opening circle of our ongoing Moved by Love retreat, we posed the following question to the participants "Could you please share a story of a time when you experienced "being the...
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Let's Play Kinditude!
Kindness and Gratefulness are like two wings of a bird. Kinditude is a board game that enables parents and teachers to help children flap those wings and learn to soar and spread love...
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Proteins For The Soul! ~ Vandanaa Neginhal
A Dear participant of the Moved by Love Retreat held in September 2015, sent us this beautiful poem on her experience :) “Go go go ...just go to MBL dont ask questions “...said my...
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