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What are the most important things I can do to live longer?

     Apparently, it's also one of the Top 5 most frequently asked questions received by Dr. Mehmet Oz,  (also known as "America's Doctor").  It seems everyone over the age of 40 is interested in reclaiming their youth and vitality—and finding out how to…

Martin Luther King Junior in his above-mentioned statement clearly emphasizes the following about Mahatma Gandhi:

One, Gandhi’s life was brimming with certain universal principles or values; secondly, the impossibility to escape…

Bad men made trouble. They brought a bomb to where a bomb never should be: they exploded the bomb. People died; many people. Whether or not they were innocent people may be a matter of viewpoint, perspective, valuation. Apparently those randomly killed were committing no crimes at the time when the bomb exploded—in the moment of their murders. (All those sudden ghosts, no doubt, in a storm of fatal fire were…

Moments of great sadness and shock bring people together. Soon thereafter, the struggle for retaining unity and compassion or giving in to or accepting the "sales" of fear, hate and division begin. We have now been 10 years at war and 10 years at trying to bring peace and community to the world. At times now, we seem to be more divided than ever with people on the side of fear and the side of love taking more "my way or the highway" stands.

United in working together, we…

Chakras on Thangkas from Nepal and Tibet.

a dream with my love

it is about 6 AM

a rainy Wednesday morning

half awake

for no apparent reason

no agendas

no office…

in a Life Time “Here”

if a lifetime here

is but a glimpse of light

that peeks through

the fabric of time

 …

“If national life becomes so perfect as to become self-regulated, no representation becomes necessary. There is then a state of enlightened anarchy. In such a state, everyone is his own ruler. He rules himself in such a manner that he is never a hindrance to his neighbour.”–M. K. Gandhi

Just in the above short statement of the Mahatma, we could more or less perceive a civil society of his imagination. In other words, we could draw an outline of the civil…

There is no darkness in the midst of Light

I live in a world where the words male and female are flexible and subjective, even redundant. A world of perpetual transformation, where sexuality and gender become obsolete as people begin to question why they should be the same person, day in, day out. A world where the overriding ethos is to question and explore your sexuality and gender without the restrictions prevalent in them altogether and surrounding activities that…

Stop the flow

Day in day out you set the pattern of you life ignoring the rhythm of the universe, I cant do this or that never listening to the inner most heart and the adventures it wood lead you on. We are complex beings, at war within and without. We contradict ourselves all the time, undoing today the work of yesterday You can stop this be aware of your being -- here and now. Your sincerity to follow…

     ...that a sacred oil from India has been shown to treat osteoarthritis and alleviate joint pain as effectively as non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs)?



     Indian frankincense (Boswellia serrata) has been used in the Middle East for religious rituals and healing for thousands of…