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Issue No: 373, August 2020

Searching for the self

Dawn at Zeek’s Creek salt marsh, Conanicut Island, RI, USALara Davis, mason, architect, amateur botanist, forest worker and poet, speaks about her path to self-discovery.Daily ReminderKnowing the end approachesHe asks what we should all ask –What would I truly wish to doWith the rest of my life? How doI make my time on this planet count? Vision and dream of global transformationsMean nothing – when we cannot transformOurselves. And so the daily prayer must lead usOn the path of the life well-lived –On a path with beauty spilling over for us to noticeWith a speed modulated, that we may take joy – In leaning over, to kiss the flower that crosses usTo look out along the distance and all around usAt the coyote passing, pausing with prescient stareTo look up at the light piercing the canopyWith its luminescent greens, comfortingAnd even the flaming orange lantana! Take notice of the life all around youThis is the magic way the shaman seeksAnd the Divine Grace of self-discovery.February...
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Issue No. 373, August 2020

  • The mission of Savitri Bhavan
  • Searching for the self
  • Loneliness in the time of COVID
  • Auroville teens on COVID-19
  • Closed doors, open hearts: therapy in the time of Corona
  • ‘Calling the Future’: preliminary results of a community survey
  • Shared passions beyond borders: the Auroville Learning Exchange
  • Breathing safely: Aurovilians making masks
  • Breathing easier: Aurovilians building ventilators
  • Exiles’ views
  • In memoriam: Paolo Tommasi
  • Passings: Arya Maloney; Joan Tomb; Jean Neal

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