by Shira | Apr 29, 2016 | Uncategorized
Dearest friends, The topic of death is one that usually makes us scurry away into our burrows. Who wants to think about death, loss, and the possibility of our own non-existence? In fact our society is in a kind of denial about the fact that we are all in the process...
by Shira | Mar 31, 2016 | Uncategorized
Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground. ~Rumi I came across this Rumi poem recently and immediately felt a great resonance. Yes, the beauty we love expresses itself through life and through ourself in so many...
by Shira | Feb 18, 2016 | Message from the Heart
Dearest friends, Pedaling a bicycle coast-to-coast across Southern India is an experience like no other: exhilarating, harrowing, exhausting, powerful, blissful… the adjectives are too numerous to list. I just finished this 750km bicycle trip with a group of ten...
by Shira | Feb 10, 2016 | Uncategorized, Upcoming Events
The Seminar In one of the most impoverished areas of West Africa, Father Charles Ogada – a Nigerian Christian mystic and Vedantist – has been working to transform the village of Ebe into ‘Joy Village’. Allowing love to be his guiding light, he has built a...
by Shira | Jan 12, 2016 | Message from the Heart, Uncategorized
Dearest friends, I write to you today from Puttaparthi, a small cosmopolitan ashram town about 3 hours from Bangalore in the Southern part of India. It is a balmy 33 degrees and the usual sounds of construction, honking horns, birds chirping, monkeys jumping, and...
