Being human
and life's little mysteries

Whatever you do, whatever you eat, whatever you offer or give away, and whatever austerities you perform — do that, O son of Kuntī,...

Being in the hospital going on six weeks can sometimes feel like a marathoner at the twenty-second mile. “The wall”, as it’s called in...

Five weeks. Five weeks! I never planned on a stay in the hospital this long. This wasn’t how my transplant recovery was supposed to go....

samniyama-indriya-gramam / sarvatra sama-buddhayah te prapnuvanti mam eva / sarva-bhuta-hite ratah Those who are able to control their...

Yesterday morning was month to the day since I woke up. I woke up from a twelve hour surgery and an additional twelve hours of being...

On Joy and Sorrow Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with ...

“Fear comes, but fear passes.” ― Marianne Williamson As humans, many people seem to dwell on the anxieties of the unknown; thriving...

You can’t always get what you want but if you try sometimes you just might find you get what you need. The Rolling Stones Often in life...

I have been crying lately primarily due to the amazement of life and death: the wonderment of feeling Love as purely and simply as I do...

PYS 1.33: Maitri Karuna Muditopeksanam Sukha Dukha Punyapunya Visayanam Bhavantas Citta Prasnadanam Definition: Maitri -friendliness...

Until that point, I felt like my body was hanging on, trying to adjust to the massive, seismic shifts that come with having the largest...

“Admit something: Everyone you see, you say to them, “Love me.” Of course you do not do this out loud, otherwise Someone would...

Time, beyond being a measuring tool to make appointments which deem us too early or too late, confounds my cortical mind. It has been...

PYS 2.3 avidya asmita raga dvesha abinivesha pancha klesha There are five kinds of hindrances or obstacles of the mind (kleshas): 1)...

sarva-bhutastham atmanam sarva-bhutani ca-atmani iksate yogayukta-atma sarvatra sama-darsanah Through the practice of yoga, the yogi sees...

Yoga chitta vritti nirodhah (Patanjali 1.2) The state of yoga ceases the fluctuations of the mind (when you are in a state of yoga, all...

Sometimes it’s easy to forget that being alive means that the body is in a constant state of flux. In today’s western word of ‘doing’...

One of the most multi-cultural places I have been in London is the hospital. It may seem an unlikely place for a crossroads for...

gopala gopala devakinandana gopala Child Krishna, son of Devaki, friend of cows Gopal, or Gopala, is a name for the child Krishna....

There is more to life than increasing its speed. –Mahatma Gandhi It never ceases to amaze me how people spend their time. Whether its...