Category: The search for the self

let go of the past to set the future free and leave the now to evaporate from my friend the astrophysicist

to the the gates of absolute chaos did He prostrate himself before He passed through in the search for harmony

When asked by a studio head once how I would direct the film, I said, well ..... Ummmm ..... I would put some film in the camera ..... And umm .... I would find a nice place to put the camera and umm ..... Needless to say I did not get the job, nor would [...]

The problem with exploring ideas of us being subject to the laws of karma and to a predetermined Destiny is that our minds always veer towards the 'given'. Towards the absolute.  That we are all subject to the laws of Karam and to Destiny that somehow were formed in the past. But our Karma is [...]

Logic asks us to interpret everything in terms of a beginings and an ends. Since we interpret everything around us in terms of absolute existence in time and in space, we naturally assume beginings and ends. Yet quantum physics and the great spiritualists encourage us look at everything in terms of potential existence rather than [...]

can we find sense, in a realm beyond sense ? shekhar

The ego can be defined in many ways, both positive and negative. In a spiritual way it is negative, but it is also my ego that pushes me into the spiritual path to try and destroy it. It is the creative ego that provokes an artist to create art, yet the whole creative process then [...]

when your soul is telling you it is time to to soar to the freedom you were born with, when 'normalcy' is nothing but an 'learnt' imprisonment of your own mind, when you start to see that you never were born nor will you ever die, but where the illusion of life and death is [...]

Mr Coehlo and I were looking at creativity from different points of view. I have a fairly spiritualistic view of creativity - which defines creativity as moments of harmony with a Universe that is at constant creative play or Leela. And Mr Coehlo probably did not see this notion of " a creative moment that [...]

Some time ago I was on the same panel as Paul Coehlo (The Alchemist) on this very question. What is a creative act ? We disagreed. Paul thought that merely being creative does not imply a creative act. He interpreted the creative act as 'creative work'. All creativity must be translated into creative work. Is [...]