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Metaphor and Reality, Part III:
Letter & Spirit #57 YUKTANAND SINGH

Gratitude, compassion, empathy and forgiveness detoxify our body …

Carrying On T. SHER SINGH

I have these mini-arguments with myself every morning, even in normal times: do I really need to get up? Why do I need to be there? Wouldn’t it be better if others went, and I didn’t?

There Is No Stranger in a Gurdwara, Part II
Janam Da Firangee,
Sikhi Mai Mangee FATEHPAL SINGH TARNEY

Gurbani is water that can quench spiritual thirst. We should share this water.

There Is No Stranger In A Gurdwara, Part I
Janam Da Firangee,
Sikhi Mai Mangee FATEHPAL SINGH TARNEY

We should welcome and be hospitable to all non-Sikh visitors …

The Joys of Grandparenthood T. SHER SINGH

Life is an ongoing shower of gifts and blessings. The trick, they say, is standing still from time to time to catch a few of them.

Some Reflections On
The Fourth of July:
The U.S. Independence Day -
Janam Da Firangee,
Sikhi Mai Mangee FATEHPAL SINGH TARNEY

I see Donald Trump not so much as president of the United States, but functioning more as the head of a Western dera.

Pita ji's Dream:
Happy Father's Day
Sunday, June 17, 2018 T. SHER SINGH

Decades later, as he lay on his deathbed, a dream revived a memory. "I want to go to Rome," he said.

Vairaag:
The Story of Bhai Joga Singh
Part II EK ONG KAAR KAUR

Saakhis (stories) from Sikh history get carried through the centuries; it is important to understand WHY they get retold again and again. 

Under The Songbird's Wing FELICIA KAUR JODHKA

It is only in giving myself wholly to another that I set myself free …

Vairaag:
The Story of Bhai Joga Singh
Part I EK ONG KAAR KAUR

Does the Guru make us holy? Or does the Guru make us whole?