Age No Bar For Kindness & Wisdom
Talking about Youth, here are some wisdom quotes from last Awakin Talk on "Youth: Be the Change". (Also available as a video with a spirited song by Rahul here.) Thanks to this young,...
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Voices from the field — writings on inner transformation, gift ecology, collective coherence, and the quiet experiments that ripple outward.
Aakash Ganga
Drishti forwarded this beautiful video, and we were reflecting on when we first heard it. :) Bunch of us huddled up together in a Baroda living room, with speakers from that evening's...
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Homemakers: Simply Extraordinary Lives
Neeti: Why not start our discussion with change today. Change is a big part of a woman’s life - she changes her home after marriage, she changes her name, leaves her job when she has kids....
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S.E.R.V.I.C.E By Nipun Mehta
We recently concluded our second virtual Head Hands Heart Immersion. As a part of the circle on the last day, we had an incredibly inspiring and head crunching presentation by Nipun Bhai on finding...
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Head Hands Heart Online Immersion, August 2020
From the 10th to 16th of August 2020, fifteen participants, eight volunteers, four guests, and innumerable souls not present on the Zoom calls, stepped into an experiment of love. Each person’s...
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Community Profiles
Journeys of Transformation
Glimpses into the lives of ordinary people leading exemplary lives. Most were written during a walking pilgrimage and offered in the spirit of gratitude.
Swami "anti-Swami" Sachchidanada
"If anything, the purpose of life is to solve problems. If you don't have your own, solve other people's problems."
Prahlad "No Fears" Patel
"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."
Devadosses: A Special Kind of Grace
"Believe in your Dreams," she says, not once but many times.
Dr. Ramnik Doshi
"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.
Dwarko Sundrani
"Gandhi had many many weakenesses. But he had one strength --when he found truth, he wouldn't let it go."
Gordhan "Ironman" Patel
"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."
With One Heart
Forget the harvest. As much as you seek, that's how much you'll be obstructed. Don't seek Enlightenment. Just bow.
To Serve with Love
"Much of what we do is like planting trees under which we may never sit, but plant we must." ~~motto, Reaching the Unreached
Les "No Traces" Kaye
"We can't change the world. But we can take care of what we can touch."
Wings of Love
"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."
Harisevak Dass
"I don't ask anyone for anything. I never have. Expectations is what creates problems."
Ramdass Maharaj
"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."
Courage Under Fire
"Yes, I'm ready to die. Or anything else. If we all keep on fighting, we will all kill each other." Hamida Chandul exclaims.
Smallest Big Story of Goraj
"Our bottom line is joy. We are here to share our joy in the world," Vikrambhai Patel says.
Tick Tock, Tick Tock
"And the way to be happy, is to make people happy. And to have a little heaven right here," Shrutiben Shroff sings.
Experiments in Grace
"Goodness always prevails. Life is great, isn't it?," Jagdish Shah triumphantly asks.
Q&A With Kanti Shah
"Necessity used to be the mother of invention. Today, invention is the mother of necessity."
Gauva Uncle of Kantidara
"Inspirations? The sky because it's infinite. My mom. The sea because it flows effortlessly despite taking on all burdens."
An 80 Year Old Hand
"Do you know the Truth about life. I'll tell you -- whatever happens is the truth. That's it."
Two Thoreaus of Sakwa County
"We did not want to exploit -- or be exploited. So we just moved out of the city."
A Day in Thane with Father Joe
"We began contributing in a small way and continued to take small positive steps forward instead of looking for giant leaps."