by Srila Devi | 17. November 2025 | All Posts, Personal Transformation, Reflections, Restorative Justice
About twenty years ago, I evaluated a restorative justice project at Wellingborough Prison in the UK called “Drugs and Crime Mean Doing Time.” It was a grassroots initiative where at-risk children — or those already on the edge of offending — visited the prison for a...
by Srila Devi | 3. November 2025 | All Posts, Personal Transformation, Reflections, Relections, Spiritual Writing, Writing Life
As I’m immersed in — and blown away by — Liz Gilbert’s new book All the Way to the River: Love, Loss and Liberation, I’ve been reflecting on what makes a good writer. People often say to me, “I can’t write,” or, “I’d love to write a book, but I don’t know how to...
by Srila Devi | 27. October 2025 | All Posts, Divine Timing, Film News, Indian Spirituality, Personal Transformation, Spiritual Journeys, Spiritual Writing
Some dreams do come true. It has always been my wish that my first book, Meeting Shiva – Falling and Rising in Love in the Indian Himalayas, would one day become a meaningful film — one created by a director who truly understands the message of transformation at the...
by Maitreyi | 7. April 2022 | All Posts, Death & Dying
In spiritual circles, people often speak of unity and absolute reality. And yet, again and again, human beings quarrel — about God (“my God is greater than yours”), about religion (“my religion is better than yours”), and even about spiritual teachers (“my teacher is...
by Maitreyi | 7. March 2022 | All Posts, Personal Transformation
Today I would like to share a beautiful reflection on death by the Buddhist teacher Thich Nhat Hanh, who recently laid down his mortal body. The text is titled A Kaleidoscope. “As a child, I loved playing with a kaleidoscope that I made myself from a tube and a few...
by Srila Devi | 2. February 2022 | All Posts
About half a year ago, I fulfilled a long-cherished dream: I moved into an old mill nestled deep within the forest.A small stream runs through my garden, home to herons, ducks, and even a shy nutria. Birds of every kind dart among the trees, deer and foxes appear from...
