Sublime

Being in Kainchi feels like stepping back in time a thousand years. And being with Mata-ji felt like a homecoming. After the loss of my daughter, my road had been harrowing. Although nearly a decade had unfolded, I arrived with a tattered soul and a shattered heart. It wasn’t that Sri Siddhi Ma had some kind of magical powers to mend me (perhaps),

Our thoughts and emotions constitute a subjective world, a world that enslaves us.

Mirra Alfassa (“The Mother”)

sadhana, your spiritual practice.

It requires a freedom to be in movement, not to stop the movement.

there can be something unreasonable, irresistible, and miraculous in the process of finding a teacher.

Once, he said to her: “You are like me, you are different from most people. You are Kamala, nothing else, and inside of you, there is a peace and refuge, to which you can go at every hour of the day and be at home at yourself, as I can also do. Few people have this, and yet all could have it.”

Shakti Woman, an example of “photopsychic art” by Irene Young. The photo was taken of the author and her snake, Bacchus, when he was two years

I was particularly aided by an early interview with Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche, a renowned Tibetan yogin-scholar of the Kagyü lineage whose spontaneous teachings emerged as foundational in my understanding of the ḍākinī.