Sublime

Pratibhā simultaneously means intuitive insight, embodied instinct, and spontaneous inspiration.

regimen with the intention of elevating the mind and

gentleness and innate goodness. This is the first karma, which is the principle of peace, or pacifying.

This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, Some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all! … The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide

“Alas my dear boy,” wrote Ghalib to a friend in January 1862. “This is not the Delhi in which you were born, not the Delhi in which you got your schooling, not the Delhi in which you used to come to your lessons with me, not the Delhi in which I have passed fifty-one years of my life.” It is a camp. The only Muslims here are artisans or servants of

(trading station) in Surat, an agreement ‘for our reception and continuation in his domynyons’ and a couple of imperial firmans, limited in scope and content, but useful to flash at obstructive Mughal officials. Jahangir, however, made a deliberate point of not conceding any major trading

Korima sounds like karma and functions the same way, except in the here and now. It’s your obligation to share whatever you can spare, instantly and with no expectations: once the gift leaves your hand, it was never yours to begin with. The Tarahumara have no monetary system, so korima is how they do business: their economy is based on trading favo

1. Whatever is impossible to amend in one’s self or in others, must be borne with patience until God decides otherwise.