Archive for Sadness

Art and Facing Darkness

Last night A.R. Rahman won an Oscar for Best Original Song and this is what he said:

All my life I have had a choice of hate and »»

Illness & the Divine

You are in love with me,
I shall make you perplexed.

Do not build much, for I intend to have you in ruins.

If you build two hundred houses »»

More on Sadness: Tagore Poem

This Tagore poem links sadness with creation:

It is the pang of separation that spreads throughout the world

and gives birth to shapes innumerable in the infinite sky.

It is »»

Sadness: Is It Necessary To The Spiritual Path?

On The Wild Things of God (I love that name!) today there is a about sadness. He describes the feeling of needing to fight sadness, to »»