In Alexandra Stoddard’s delightful book, The Decoration of Houses, she talks about the art of making our homes a haven. We can all transform our spaces into a feast for our senses and a well of deep, lasting comfort. This is how she talks about the fabrics we use in dressing up our spaces: […]
Archives for August 2015
Being Creative
In his small and wonderful book, The Courage to Create, Rollo May illuminates the mysterious, glorious subject of creativity in such a wonderful way. I am in love with his mind and his thoughts. Creativity needs encounter, he says, when something inside us meets the outside world, and something new is born into the world. […]
We are always in transition.
Before I’d left for India a week ago, I got a stack of new books from the library. In one of them, Pema Chodron said something that leapt out at me. It went something like this: we are always in transition. Such a simple statement, yet so true. We are always in transition. […]
Finding what works for us
Sometimes, we need a new way of looking at the same thing for us to be able to adopt it fully. I have been doing yoga for the last couple of months now. This is not the first time I’ve attempted yoga. But this is the first time that it has started to work for me. […]
Highly Sensitive People and the Search for Finding Meaning
Always feeling can become a bad habit. Swimming in the sea of sensations, caught up in the rip-tide of emotions, it’s easy to lose sight of the reality of a shore, a solid ground that can hold us just as well as the never-ending ocean. Looking back, there was a time in my life when I was practical, aware of what was happening around me, aware of how the people around affected me. […]
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