Shivapuri Baba, also known as Swami Govindanath Bharati, was a Hindu saint who reportedly lived from 1826 to 1963, making him 137 years old at the time of his death.
According to the biography written by John G. Bennett, Long Pilgrimage - The Life and Teaching of the Shivapuri Baba, Shivapuri Baba was bo… Continue

1. Philippines - most hits
2. United States
3. Australia
4. India
5. Canada
6. United Kingdom
7. Sweden
8. Netherlands
9. Brazil
10. Mexico

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It doesn’t interest me
what you do for a living.
I want to know
what you ache for
and if you dare to dream
of meeting your heart’s longing.

It doesn’t interest me
how old you are.
I want to know
if you will risk
looking like a fool
for love
for your dream
for the adventure of being alive.


It doesn’t interest me
what planets are
squaring your moon...
I want to know
if you have touched
the centre of your own sorrow
if you have been opened
by life’s betrayals
or have become shrivelled and closed… Continue

I just read Kathryn Hulme's Gurdjieff recollection - "The Undiscovered Country: A Spiritual Adventure" where she tells about her life and search and among other things, describes the last meeting with Gurdjieff in 1949. She said that after having a little bit too much to drink she had started telling a story about a 4-year old who crossed the Atlantic all by herself...

I accidentally found the actual voice recording of her telling that story and Gurdjieff's reaction on the Web - i did not even… Continue

From Dom Sylvester Houédard :

Therefore I pray to God to make me free of God, - now that, perhaps, is one of the most famous sayings of Eckhart and possibly the one which has been most misunderstood, but it is exactly what Ibn 'Arabi and the whole of Christian tradition says: that the highest knowledge of God is to know that He is unknowable and to know that He is unknowable is still positive theology. It is no good knowing that God is unknowable, you have to stop knowing. To have a concept of… Continue