Arun Sharma

As I go to explore nature, smell a fragrant flower on the way, listen to a soothing song, jazz, or classical music, look at the ocean’s rolling waves, climb a lush green hill, or gaze at a painting that captivates me, time slips away into eternity. Deep inside, my consciousness begins to flow...

Scandinavian countries like Finland, Norway and Sweden combine strong economic performance with social equality through robust welfare systems, progressive taxation and influential labor unions. Democratic socialism aims to merge such social protections with political democracy and workers’ ri...

Buddhism sees suffering not as punishment, but as a call to awaken. When life falls apart, change breaks your ego and false comforts, revealing new doors.Don’t ask, “Why is this happening to me?” Ask, “What is this revealing in me?”Transformation is the heart of Buddhis...

Paul Gauguin said, “ I close my eyes to see.” Once in a while you must close your eyes to delve deeper inside to see yourself. During my recent Lhasa trip climbing vertical steps inside Potala palace, we the travelers energetically discussed Buddhism, Religion and Spirituality, which re...

Paul Auster shares heartfelt and personal meditations on fatherhood that “integrates heart and intellect, sensation and speculation . . . as it relentlessly tries to make sense of the shocks of living” 

Facing death he guides readers through scenes of profound loss and quiet hope: “Paul sets the stage for his own tragedy.” When the results arrive, a glaring image of stage IV lung cancer, Paul is under death’s shadow, grappling with his mortality through the words he weaves.”

Emily Brontë, in Wuthering Heights  expresses the pain of missing presence, the yearnings and stinging memories  of her lover and loneliness; “I knew I would love you the moment I saw you, and I would have loved you forever had you stayed. But you left me with nothing but memori...

"The true horror of existence is not the fear of death, but the fear of life. It is the fear of waking up each day to face the same struggles, the same disappointments, the same pain.”— Albert Camus, The Fall

Cecile De Forest, a reader of Prophet Song, argues that the book written from a desperate mother’s point of view couldn’t have been a better choice.

Who are we? Where did we come from?  What is our address in this universe? Where is it (the universe) going?  Are we alone and lonely in the cosmos? How did life begin? Are there more dimensions besides space, time, and mass? Profound questions, they raised without the help of God.  Is God, too, a c...