A Hindu is a born mystic, and the luxuriant nature of his country has made him a zealous … - Helena

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I distanced myself, relatively, from my parents for a year or so in my late twenties. It was necessary for me to feel my autonomy. Other than that brief gap, we have always been a very close family.

Helena

A Hindu is a born mystic, and the luxuriant nature of his country has made him a zealous pantheist

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Throughout the world today there is a gowing awareness of the failings of the Western model of development and a corresponding desire to look for more human-scale, ecological ways of living. If Ladakh now succeeds in creating for itself a future which retains the foundations of its traditional past, it will be an inspiring example of how all the various elements of an ecological future fit together.

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As no outward motion or change, when normal, in man's external body can take place unless provoked by an inward impulse, given through one of the three functions named, so with the external or manifested Universe.

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In convent, I live for 4 months in a broom closet. I do not rot.

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