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What Is A Pilgrimage?

Vimala Thakar

What is a pilgrimage? And who is a pilgrim? Life itself is a pilgrimage. The whole lifetime is the time for undertaking...

Perfume Of Wholeness

Vimala Thakar

A new challenge awaits us at the beginning of the twenty-first century: to go beyond fragmentation, to go beyond the incompatible sets of...

How Observation Changes Relationships

Vimala Thakar

When we sit in silence what do we do? We sit and observe the voluntary and involuntary activities of the body and mind. Slowly the...

Force Of Love Is The Force Of Total Revolution

Vimala Thakar

A tender, loving concern for all living creatures will need to arise and reign in our hearts if any of us is to survive. And our lives...

What is Meditation?

Vimala Thakar

"This awareness of the so called outward and the inward movements of life, is meditation. The simultaneous awareness of the total...

The Delight in Exploring Inner Territory

Vimala Thakar

As long as we cling to the idea that this is "my mind, my own, personal mind," we will have a strong tendency to look as good...

Privacy Is Not Possible

Vimala Thakar

Traditionally, the investigating of psychological weaknesses in relation to social action has been taboo, not acceptable. As long as a...

The Essence of Spirituality

Vimala Thakar

To be spiritual is to be related to the visible, invisible and the infinite aspects of life simultaneously. True spirituality never...

Growing in Spontaneity

Vimala Thakar

Never argue with one's own understanding. The whisper of intelligence is always there, whatever you do. If you create a time lag...

The Lovely State of Observation

Vimala Thakar

There are two parts of life. Motion and motionlessness. Movement is one part of life but to be in a state of...

Watching Volcanoes Explode

Vimala Thakar

We must become deeply aware of our bondage if we value freedom. We begin to watch our behavior throughout the day; we notice the fear,...

Each of Us, a Miniature Wholeness

Vimala Thakar

Internally, we are divided against ourselves; the emotions want one thing, the intellect another, the impulses of the body yet another,...

Spirituality: The Seed of Social Action

Vimala Thakar

The study of our mind, the psychological structure, does not require isolation, but it does require attentiveness. The movement of the...

Moving in Wholeness

Vimala Thakar

A new challenge awaits us at the beginning of the twenty-first century: to go beyond fragmentation, to go beyond the incompatible sets of...

A Human Society

Vimala Thakar

A self-centered person can never look at anything in life, a self-centered person cannot get related with other human beings. He is so...

Inner Social Responsibility

Vimala Thakar

Viewing the world as a large pieced-together collection of fragments, some of which are labeled as friend and others as foe, begins...

Sacred Nothingness

Vimala Thakar

"Vimalaji," I say, "these days a lot of people are interested in spirituality and yet it seems that only in very few is there a radical...