by Shazar | Nov 1, 2013 | consciousness, India, volunteering
When it is time to move on in your life, it is not always an easy thing to do. Ties are there, connections are there – a feeling of leaving family behind – especially when the life has been intense and committed and full of heart. But even in that...
by Shazar | Mar 18, 2013 | consciousness, Environment, India, Mother Earth, volunteering, Water Conservation
Last week two trees lost their lives in service to our Mother Earth. I felt the pain of the trees as they were chopped and hacked to the ground. I was so angry with the wood cutter – and everyone here yelled at him and told him to stop. But it was too late for...
by Shazar | Feb 13, 2013 | consciousness, India, volunteering
My tears are close just below the surface of my being hovering in the wings trying to break through what is this hypersensitivity? this pain of being that hovers so near? its triggered by such small things – the child tossing the plastic over the wall the...
by Shazar | Oct 31, 2012 | consciousness
There is a story I’ve been told. Its about a giant who lived on the top of the mountains and was very happy and full of freedom. The little people in the valley were jealous of him.. and schemed and plotted to find a way to trap him. One day they had a bright...
by Shazar | Oct 23, 2012 | consciousness, India, volunteering
I was so fortunate today… I met the Goddess of our Spring. After the work time a few of the children and our wonderful teacher Satish Mankar and I headed down to the spring to cool off. We had been weeding and mulching our fruit trees and were all hot and...
by Shazar | Sep 1, 2012 | consciousness, India, Meditation
Do you know that space? That feeling behind the solar plexus, that gap? The one we often fill with our addictions? I am feeling it tonight.. I try to put a label on it.. ‘homesick, alone,’ looking for something outside of myself to fill it. Examine it,...
