GURU NANAK, CARL SAGAN, LEO TOLSTOY, KAVIJI, ILYA PRIGOGINE, LYNN V. ANDREWS, MARVIN NEWMAN,SONNY MEHTA, GITA MEHTA. SEPT. 22, 2023

GITA MEHTA  1943-2023 I’M LUCKY to be a writer coming out of a civilization like India. After all, ours is the civilization that based everything on relativity long before Albert Einstein came up with the physics of it. The notion of relativity, of time, of experience and of cognition is something we as writers can always … Read more

CLASSIC BOOK REVIEW: “READING BETWEEN THE LIES” by DICK GREGORY

CLASSIC BOOK REIEW: “Reading Between The Lies” by Dick Gregory “Slavery in America didn’t start with black folks. In the 1500’s, peoples from Spain and Portugal were over here enslaving Indians. That’s what they called the natives living here, Indians, because when the dummy Christopher Columbus came here, this fool gets lost and all of a … Read more

SAMUEL JOHNSON, DREW GILPIN FAUST–BIRTHDAYS SEPTEMBER 18. 2023–PLUS JIMI HENDRIX, CHARLOTTE BRONTE, MAHATMA GANDHI.

                 TODAY IS NATIONAL CHEESEBURGER DAY! WHEN YOU ARE ONE with the sense of presence, then whatever is necessary by way of spiritual knowledge will sprout by itself. TODAY I LEARNED about a term called a “glimmer.” Which is the opposite of a trigger. Glimmers are those moments in … Read more

KEN KESEY, HANK WILLIAMS, MIGUEL DE GOMEZ DE QUEVEDO, REINHOLD MESSNER–BIRTHDAYS SEPTEMBER 17, 2023 –PLUS MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO, CHANG TZU

TO A MIND THAT IS STILL . . . THE WHOLE WORLD SURRENDERS.            CHAUNG TZU      SUFFERING is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons. MIGUEL de UNAMUNO KEN KESEY. 1935-2001. “One Flew Over the Cukoos Nest” YOU can’t … Read more

FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, NIPSY RUSSELL BIRTHDAY SEPTEMBER 15, 2023 PLUS RAY BRADBURY & ECKHART TOLLE.

ONCE YOU SEE the ego for what it is, it becomes much easier to remain nonreactive toward it. You don’t take it personally anymore. There is no complaining, blaming, accusing or making wrong. Nobody is wrong. It is the ego in someone, that’s all. Compassion arises when you recognize that all are suffering from the same … Read more