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Spirituality

Tuesday, January 7, 2024

When you shine the light of awareness on yourself, you begin to awaken to an authentic life. How does one become conscious of one’s own self? Partly, with the help of daily journaling. When you pen down the thoughts and emotions that run through your mind like a broken record, leave them behind on the pages of a notebook. They will washout and leave you with clear mind and lightened heart. Place the bubbling thoughts of bitterness, anger, resentfulness or sorrow triggered by a family or social event on the pages of your journal. Then watch the petty or vindictive thoughts, careless actions or unnecessary words get soaked up by the pages. So go ahead, pour your heart out in that notebook and watch how it cures you. Your private thoughts...

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Day 2, Thursday, January 2, 2025

Happy New Year Greetings Continues . . Happy New Year to All from Our and Our Daughters' Homes!Here is the auspicious platter to welcome 2025. Kashmiri families prepare a “thal,” to welcome each New Year. This is the first things each family member is expected to see after waking up on the morning of January 1. It includes bowls of milk and yogurt, sugar and salt, fresh and dry fruit, flowers, book/notebook, pen/pencil, gold/money and a mirror. The items are placed over uncooked rice. Other items may include hot chili, pods of tamarind or similar items. At the end of the day each ingredient is transferred back to its containers.Rice symbolizes sustenance, and gold/money, abundance. The transformative process of milk turning into yogurt signifies the skill, method, duration and patience it...

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