He pursued perfectionby constantly fixingwhat he judged asflaws within himself. One day,he achieved perfection by fixing his vision that could see flaws in him. He realizedthe only flaw wasseeing any part of himselfas flawed. The only imperfection wasseeing anything as imperfect. When he let go of that,perfection saw only perfection in perfection. The observer, the […]
The Unseen Danger Recently, a friend told me a story that still had him badly shaken. A few days earlier, his six-year-old son had walked out of the house by himself to play in a nearby park. For a few terrifying minutes, my friend and his wife had no idea where their child was. They
One of the common descriptors of the divine is “omnipotent” – the all-powerful. But then I have also heard from Gurbani and other spiritual texts that God is love. If God were loving but not love itself, she would have an option not to be loving. One who is loving now may not be loving
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I am a person who would analyze and question everything. Yet, for 20 years, the seemingly irrational messages of Gurbani have been my greatest source of peace. This article explores how its core truths provided an anchor in moments of despair and why, for me, a life without the sound of Kirtan would be a life without meaning.
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In a quiet valley, there was a village called Veridia. The people there were simple shoemakers. One day, a wise man named Kaelen came to the village. He arrived quietly without a fuss. Kaelen was a shoemaker who had a special – almost mystical – way of working. He taught the villagers that making a
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