by Srila Devi | 3. March 2026 | Healing, Personal Transformation, Reflections, Trauma
In my thirties, I dated a talented visual artist for a while. One day, I asked him what had made him become a painter. He paused, looked at me pensively, and said, “Love. It was because of love.” Thinking he meant his love of art or colour, I nodded. But he continued....
by Srila Devi | 19. January 2026 | Healing, Personal Transformation, Reflections, Trauma
“We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.”(Dietrich Bonhoeffer) I love what’s happening culturally at the moment. On the one hand, we see figures like Donald Trump, who seem to want to...
by Srila Devi | 20. December 2025 | All Posts, Reflections, Spiritual Writing
“Let yourself be looked at. All of you: in your woundedness, in your messiness, your insecurity, in your fear, let yourself be seen. Let yourself be loved. And stay close, because that is where intimacy begins.” (From the podcast episode “The Masculine Mysticism of...
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...
