by Sharani | Mar 20, 2013 | happiness, International Day of Happiness
Today March 20, 2013 is the first ever U.N. International Day of Happiness. I first learned about it when I attended Visual Happiness an art exhibit at the Queens Museum of Art currently running through March 24th in their Partnership Gallery. The exhibit pairs...
by Sharani | Sep 22, 2008 | favorite musicians, happiness, hope
Hope is a dress that my mother once wore A fiddle tune I heard that has no words Hope is the one thing we have never lost… -Susan McKeown River (song lyrics excerpt). River by Irish-born Celtic musician Susan McKeown is a real favorite in my music library. While...
by Sharani | Feb 23, 2008 | gratitude, happiness, kindness, meditation, Naikan
The Importance of Gratitude “My own gratitude heart is all that matters.†-Sri Chinmoy Down through the ages, great thinkers in religion and philosophy recommend cultivating gratitude as a key to happiness and satisfaction. A task as simple as keeping a daily...
by Sharani | Sep 13, 2007 | darshan, happiness, meditation, poems, Sri Chinmoy
Paper lace grace flutters al fresco a ticker tape parade thousand happiness wish -Sharani (July 2006) I slowly moved forward in walking meditation, silent, reverent, linked in a seamless circle with others taking darshan from the teacher. With each completion of...