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If you want, you can read a little about my life journey...

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Sri Chinmoy teaches the path of the heart, and I am fortunate indeed to be meditating under his guidance. One of the reasons I am inspired to write is to give some testament as to what it is like to be a student of a spiritual Master; there are not many first-hand accounts of the teacher-student relationship to be found at all. You can find out more about Sri Chinmoy on this site....

On my visits to see Sri Chinmoy in his New York home, I try to write a daily diary describing what's going on inwardly and outwardly: I did one in November 2005 and another in April 2006 . The diary of my November 2006 visit is now available on my blog...

Running adventures
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Running for me is a tremendous way to get lots of mental and emotional junk out of the system and stay in the heart. You can read some accounts of marathons and other races I ran...

Encounters with record breakers

I've been fortunate enough to help some amazing people do some pretty amazing things.

 

Found Sounds

2007-02-16 03:30 PM | Posted by Shane Magee | Permanent Link | FoundSounds
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My good friend Pavitrata had a section on his photo gallery called 'Found Sounds' in which he detailed any interesting overheard snippets of conversation he had heard that day. He was rather strict about what went in and what didn't - it had to be written down the evening that he heard it. I, on the other hand, have no such qualms.

Here's one I heard this evening walking home:

You're only as good as your last column inch

Perhaps Noivedya might agree...

Comments

2007-02-17 03:43 AM | Posted by John Gillespie | /Members/john_gillespie/blog

Ssshhh! Don't tell the whole world how insecure writers are! A writer may spend a lifetime writing quality poetry or prose, day after day and page after page, yet sit down to write fearing they may never write another good word.

Incidentally, I wrote a post about “found sounds” recently, although I am hardly claiming to have invented the practise (I found most of mine on another website):

Overhead on the subway
 

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