October 2016
Larry Brilliant spoke at our Awakin Circle tonight -- and his first comment to the group was, "This feels so familiar." Ever since I've known him, from my days of serving on the Seva Foundation board, he's always felt very familiar to me. It was a brilliant evening. Larry…
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It was an honor to be in dialogue with Brother David at his 90th b'day celebration back in July. A woman from Romania just wrote a gratitude note for the question I had asked that day, "What the difference between good and bad intuition?" For me, though, the big…
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The ever-so-inspiring Sujatha Baliga and I were at the Berkeley Rep Theatre today, speaking at the IdeaFest . People seemed to enjoy our reflections on moving beyond "nonprofit industrial complex" but I think they mostly LOVED that I requested Sujatha to sing a gospel song -- "If…
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Sri M spoke at our Awakin Circle today, and opened with a classic story from his past life where Mahavatar Babaji taught him a profound lesson: a moment of kindness is more valuable than a hundred years of penance. It was a really beautiful space, what he called "sacred space".…
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I always go into meetings without any agenda, and yet it amazes me how much comes out of it. Last month, I got an email from Vijayam Kartha to meet up on her US trip. So we met, with Zarin and Vinod as well. It was a moving experience, as I learned about Vijayam's stories of being a life-long…
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Sometimes you're just on a roll with the universe. After series of powerful events and meetings in Atlanta, I hop into my cab to get to the airport. My cabbie -- Conrad -- happens to be the owner of the cab company. "What's the name of your company?" "Chariots of Fire."…
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On Gandhi's 147th birthday, I was invited to offer a talk for the distinguished Sheth Lecture series (named after marketing luminary Jag Sheth , who at dinner said, "Marketing is fundamentally an exercise in empathy"). The whole event was a very moving…
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Figured that it's Gandhi birthday, so I would attempt a new habit of sharing a short reflection regularly. :)
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[Excerpted from this post on 2015 India trip .] After constantly being around so many people, and being in different beds every other night, I returned home last week. Guri tells me that during one of those jet-lagged 3AM moments, I looked at the "Namaste" quote by my bedside and…
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