October 2016
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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