These are all the texts, essays, poems that I wrote in this blog, that fell into my lap, and that I have gathered here for the ones among you which may like to see them at one glance…
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– At the Crossroads (a playful divagation on ‘being’…)
– The Puzzled Self (on looking for happiness in the wrong place…)
– The Buddha Nature (a playful divagation on ‘being’…)
– The Gospel According to St. Matthew (a text about a film…)
– The Great Replacement (a playful divagation on ‘being’…)
– Taking Sides (a playful divagation on ‘being’…)
– A Tower of Watchfulness (a poem…)
– Imagine a Life (a text invoking a famous statement by J. Krishnamurti…)
– The Burning Bush (a playful divagation on ‘being’…)
– Awareness is All (an essay exploring the nature of experience…)
– The State of Things (a reflexion on the true nature of our experience…)
– The Castle (a playful divagation on ‘being’…)
– The Hypochondria of Being (on the nature of spiritual experience…)
– The Incidental Life (a playful divagation on ‘being’…)
– The Craving (a poem…)
– The Angel of Death (a text about a TV series…)
– The Most Important Thing (a playful divagation on ‘being’…)
– An Invitation from Silence (an exploration linking silence to pure being…)
– The Coronation (a poem…)
– A Loss and a Gain (a playful divagation on ‘being’…)
– Evangelium (a meditation on the ‘Good News’ advocated by Christianity…)
– Unconditional Love (a playful divagation on ‘being’…)
– Humanity’s Healers (an essay exploring humanity’s place in our being…)
– The Graceful Way (a poem…)
– Go Within (on how all spiritual traditions only point to ‘being’…)
– The Lazy Worker (a playful divagation on ‘being’…)
– The Fate of Me (a poem…)
– Hide-and-Seek (an exploration of the ‘hide-and-seek’ nature of self-inquiry…)
– A Place of Thankfulness (a playful divagation on ‘being’…)
– Being Spiritual (an ode about not being spiritual…)
– The Controller (a playful divagation on ‘being’…)
– Defining Enlightenment (an essay listing the many words for enlightenment…)
– The End of Seeking (a playful divagation on ‘being’…)
– The Worth of a Life (a playful divagation on ‘being’…)
– The Dark Night (a text on the poem by John of the Cross)
– A Fabulous Secret (a playful divagation on ‘being’…)
– The Riddle of Ignorance (a longer essay on the subject of ignorance…)
– A Disencumbered Now (a playful divagation on ‘being’…)
– A Song of Two Humans (a text about a film…)
– The Contemplative Mind (a playful divagation on ‘being’…)
– A Story of Lack (a story on how the sense of lack can be our teacher…)
– To Know Better (a playful divagation on ‘being’…)
– Diary of a Country Priest (a text about a film…)
– The Substance of the World (a meditation on the beauty of the world…)
– The Program (a playful divagation on ‘being’…)
– The Names of God (a longer essay exploring the names given to god…)
– The Ways of Being (a playful divagation on ‘being’…)
– Longing (a poem…)
– How Difficult is That? (a playful divagation on ‘being’…)
– A Mountain Walking (after an evening spent with Arthur Rubinstein…)
– A Ballet of Life (a reflection on seeing the ballet ‘Romeo and Juliet’…)
– Hunger (a poem…)
– Into the Night (a very short story that narrates Peter’s entry to sacred India…)
– The Guard and the Prison Breaker (a longer essay on the question of freedom…)
– A Thing of Beauty (a meditation that embraces the world…)
– There is a Land (a poem…)
– A Room with a View (a text about a film…)
– The Virtues of Shopping (bringing presence to a simple experience…)
– The Shrug (a poem…)
– An Unnoticed Pathology (some thoughts on our propensity for seeking…)
– Our Sacred Destination (a short reverie on the destiny of our self…)
– The Ember (a poem…)
– The Wrath of the Lamb (a text about a film…)
– The Rightful King (a playful text about a container and its contents…)
– Churning the Ocean (a divagation on a famous Indian myth…)
– The Cradle (a poem…)
– The Flowers of St. Francis (a text about a film…)
– Being Alone (meditating on the sense of being alone…)
– The Surreptitious Thief (a longer essay on the nature of the ego…)
– The Word (a text about a film…)
– A Vehicle for God (a playful text on the Hindu concept of vehicle…)
– A Furnace of Love (a short story about Birgitta’s journey of love…)
– The Song of the Little Road (a text about a film…)
– The Pond (a poem…)
– The Sacrifice (a text about a film…)
– Love Remains (a humorous divagation where the self is confronted…)
– A Frame for Life (a longer essay on the subject of time and space…)
– The Seagull (a poem…)
– One Rock-like Reality (finding truth standing like a rock…)
– The Starry Night (a poem…)
– The Price of Immortality (a longer essay on the subject of death…)
– Ablaze with the City (a poem…)
– Overlooking You (a poem…)
– The Navel of the World (exploring where lies the true centre…)
– The Golden Thread (a poem…)
– A History of Veiling (a divagation on the subject of veiling…)
– The Mystery (a poem…)
– The Hermitage (a poetical stroll in search of our inner hermitage…)
– The Everlasting Arms (a longer essay on the subject of surrender…)
– The Waiting Room (a short text on the feeling of waiting in ourself…)
– The Never Ending Story (a short text on where wholeness is to be found…)
– The Neglected Self (a poem…)
– God Wants it All (a playful poem or fantasy…)
– The Chariot and the Charioteer (a longer essay on the reality of free will…)
– Stay Where You Are (a poem…)
– The Hiding Place (a poem…)
– Ishani’s Quest (a fairy story about the inner quest of a little girl…)
– Karma or the Monastic Life (a longer essay on Karma and right action…)
– Be Still and Know (a short text unraveling the verses of a song…)
– Benares my Love (a short text describing a secret meeting with Benares…)
– Tantra, the Song of Life (a longer essay on the nature of the Tantric path…)
– Naked Presence (a prayer or a poem…)
– Variations on the Separate Self (a short text, a divagation on separation…)
– The Cave (a short text about awareness seen as a cave…)
– The Departure (a short story relating a departure to India…)
– Bhakti, the Song of Love (a longer essay on the path of love and devotion…)
– A Silent Wind (a short text relating a day spent in Amma’s embrace…)
– Jñāna, the Song of the Self (a longer essay exploring the path of knowledge…)
– Ripples… (a poem…)
– The Distant Lord (a text about an insightful meeting in the Indian jungle…)
– The Churches of Rome (an essay on the meaning behind the churches of Rome…)
– I will Trust your Ways (a poem…)
– Our Mother’s Lap (a short text on the ways of the little child…)
– Unsubstantiality (a short text speaking of our unsubstantial nature…)
– I Want to Tell About (a poem…)
– Speaking of Shiva (a longer essay on the many facets of Shiva…)
– The Fruitless Search (a tale that speaks of a fruitless search…)
– The Path (a longer essay on the nature of the spiritual path…)
– The Old Mansion (two poems…)
– Promenade Parisienne (a short text about a poetical promenade in Paris…)
– Destroyer of Darkness (a longer essay on the function of the spiritual teacher…)
– The Intelligence of Chaos (a poem…)
– The Meeting (a short story that tells of an unexpected meeting…)
– The Truth Seeker (a short fairy story, a spiritual parable…)
– Blown Out (a longer essay to delve into the nature of awakening…)
– The Flower of Awareness (a poem…)
– Swift as a Bird (a short text on the untamed energy of our Self…)
– Bhārata Mā (a longer essay on the discovery of India’s spiritual heart…)
– The Secret (a short text that tells of a long-hidden Secret…)
– Let us all set out on a long journey (a poem…)
– Suffering Leads to Joy (a longer essay on the subject of suffering…)
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Picture by Alain Joly
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