I often struggle with decision making. Am I the only one? Especially big decisions. Those are the worst. You can weigh the pros and cons, you can see each future laid out for you that might be the resulting path of a decision made one way or another, but still you can't choose. Often times I think there is an illusion of choice. How many times in life have you chosen one thing, only to have life "chose" something else for you, sometimes a totally unwanted direction, but yet, off you go. Then you discover later that, wow, that was exactly what needed to happen, even though it's not what I wanted in the moment. So here is the conclusion I have come to: It seems, you know when you ha
Living alone or being solitary has an innately spiritual aspect to it. When someone is in your living space and you are around others a lot, one tends to share every little thing that passes through my head. Every thought, every impression, there is a lot of communication going on, a lot of talking. When there is no one there to speak these to, the words, the communications get internalized, they get re-cycled so to speak. The energy that would have been lost through speaking or sharing, gets re-absorbed. It is a conservation of energy of sorts. Silence has a powerful effect on us. When I was experimenting with observing silence in Rishikesh, the biggest thing that made itself apparent
