Notes For The Highly Sensitive Empath

"The test of a first-rate intelligence,” said writer F. Scott Fitzgerald, “is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.” Those on the path of self-inquiry often grapple with reconciling concepts of nonduality('not-two'/advaita) with the experience of individuality. Study of various religious and …

Poems: Break Out

A long, long time ago There arrived the thought That love was something dangerous Mysterious and unreliable: It led to all kinds of grief, tears,and loss That there was no way to tame it Contain what it brought: The confusion, foolishness Futility of unending fears Inconvenient changes It sometimes wrought And that day it was …

Poems: Ocean Waves

Life has no neat finales Though people may die or fall away No situation or relationship magically In a pleasant, or troubled place stagnates Where there is only One We see individual jigsaw pieces That can lock together, fall apart, Be lost, or broken too Whereas what we are Are varying wave forms That may run …

Without Apology

Someone dear to me is accustomed to saying ‘Haq banta hai’ (I have the right), whenever he requests anything that could be considered an imposition. Even though I often suffered from the story of ‘I am often and easily taken advantage of’ in the past, his saying this never triggered any resistance in me. However, …

Poems: 108 Words

Welcoming all there is The turbulence, the churning The turning upside down Inside out Of what 'I' thought as ‘you’ Drawing it all Into the One embrace That finally dissolves All ideas of two That restful place Where the highest crests And the lowest troughs Return The steady, quiet, potent space From which once again …

Perhaps We Never Really Understand One Another…

I may be an intuitive, but I cannot claim to know exactly how you perceive the world. I may be an empath feeling the waves of emotions that you do, often with the same intensity and overwhelm as you, but I cannot know what those emotions lead to in your world.  At best, this degree …

Poems: I Have Remembered Myself

You Are Not Alone

For all those who have been struggling to reconcile their head with their hearts, science with faith and pragmatism with idealism, here is a book that will capture your attention and offer solace for the doubts that may have haunted you for years. I happened to come across Martha Beck's TEDx talk and was immediately …

Poems: Links in an eternal chain

Have you ever loved someone so much That their heartfelt smile  Made you deeply grateful and caused you to bless The source of this spontaneous joy: Whether it be a song, a cricketing stroke  Or a butterfly that flew by... You wished the singer, the player or the gardener   Good wishes from your heart …