Conversations to Awaken … Marriage, Money, Life Design, Facilitation & more..

For long, I have been wanting to enable conversations and (for the lack of a better word) – offer programs on themes that are of concern to a lot of people, friends and humanity at large. One day I just sat and wrote out just a few bullets under each theme. That is some starting point. I hope to use the site called ‘Group Gyaan’ of Hetal Rach to see how much interest there is in this. Often reaching out to people has been a challenge. Baby steps will allow us to participate with emergence … Marriage… What is Love? … Continue reading Conversations to Awaken … Marriage, Money, Life Design, Facilitation & more..

Love – Friendship, Marriage, Commitment and beyond

Often I have had conversations in the last year or more with young friends struggling with the whole issue of ‘marriage’ and love. I see many unmarried youngsters grappling with it today (thankfully!). It is a big question. And needs careful attention. A related question which is more fundamental is about relationships. Is that not the central thing that we all grapple with- relationship with each other, and relationship with a lot else – money and sex being the two in which we humans are the most confused. And then of course the relationship with all that is ‘material’ – … Continue reading Love – Friendship, Marriage, Commitment and beyond

Separation & Love …

‘Only to the extent that man exposes himself over and over again to annihilation can that which is indestructible arise within him. In this lies the dignity of daring’ – Karlfried Gras von Durkheim … a favorite quote from my IIT days (around 1983-84): Often separation is seen as opposed to love, to connection. Death is seen as being opposed to Life. And Relationship opposed to being Alone. And yet, the truth is that without embracing separation, love is reduced to a needy attachment; until we see the beauty of aloneness, relationship is merely an entanglement and without learning to … Continue reading Separation & Love …