While there is still time

  From 'To Begin With, The Sweetgrass' Mary Oliver II Eat bread and understand comfort. Drink water, and understand delight. Visit t...

  I felt in need of a great pilgrimage. So I sat still for three days and God came to me. Kabir, in ' Love Poems from God, Twelve S...

  The Fourth Sign of the Zodiac (Part 3) I know, you never intended to be in this world. But you're in it all the same. So why not get...

  I want so badly some days to be the kind of person who keeps a gratitude journal and believes in manifestations, who believes that if I th...

Mine, says the cat, putting out his paw of darkness. My lover, my friend, my slave, my toy, says the cat making on your chest his gesture ...

  The middle of June, and I awake to rain - gentle, persistent, enough to soak the   ground and clear   the air.   Isn't this the best k...

  Don’t Hesitate If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don’t hesitate. Give in to it. There are plenty of lives and whole towns destroy...

"The Mahabharata is not a work of religious instruction. It is much greater. It is a work of art. It understands men will always fall i...

What a beautifully written piece! Shared by a dear friend. And it was such a wonderful surprise to see Pico Iyer also in there! I missed Kur...

'Thinking like a mountain' was one of the books recommended by Malvika Solanki during an amazing permaculture course I did with her ...

I started reading the 'No 1 Ladies Detective Agency' series many years ago, after I read a recommendation - and have been hooked on ...

  James Godfrey-Faussett: "100 years ago Ethiopia was blanketed by 45% forest and now that figure is down to just 5%. Part of the survi...

When I was a child, every monsoon season, I spent a lot of time rescuing small insects drowning in pools of rain water in the hilly green ar...

"Speaking as a Chinese, I do not think any civilization can be called complete until it has progressed from sophistication to unsophist...

"..The greater the imaginative power of a man, the more perpetually he is dissatisfied. That is why an imaginative child is always a mo...