Life Is Like A Box Of Chocolates
Two days ago, I came home to find two beautiful gifts in my laptop bag. No letter, no name, just two beautiful, anonymous gifts: A stack of ornamentally decorated Buddha cards and an amazing...
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Voices from the field — writings on inner transformation, gift ecology, collective coherence, and the quiet experiments that ripple outward.
Small Bag Project
A small act of generosity sometimes changes the entire world of somebody. This happened to Nathi ben, who after her husband died, has been trying to raise three daughters and two son...
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Mr. Toilet -- Shri Ishwar Patel
"To build toilets is easy, but to shift people's mind and hearts is the real work. Software is more important than hardware," Ishwar Dada often used to say. ...
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Giving Shape To Life
Be, Give, Live: his entire life is summarized in these three words. A world renowned sculptor, Kanti Kaka has been only making statues of people who have dedicated their lives for...
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Riding For A Cause
Meet Ritesh, a media student from Baroda. He travels everyday more than 10 km to his College in his bicycle and leave annonymous notes of gratitude for other cyclists, for keeping our...
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A Dog Ashram
Meet Govind bhai Patel. A mechanical engineer, who worked for Govt of Gujarat for most part of his life. He once had a beloved dog with the name "Johnny". So dear was Johnny that he...
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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."