Neil Patel

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Neil Patel is co-founder and CEO of Awaaz.De, "Solutions for Positive Social Impact," a company that provides "easy-to-use, cost efficient & time saving voice data tools for grassroots organizations and communities in the rural sector including education, agriculture, health, and financial services." His blog can be found at theorganicindian.blogspot.com

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Golden Temple, by Neil Patel

August 25, 2015By Neil Patel

The night Nimo, Jay, and I arrived in Amritsar, India, we made a cursory survey of the Sikh Golden Temple, wandering around the outer area and meditating at its river banks. The next morning, we […]

In his heralded poem “Burnt Norton,” T.S. Eliot speaks of “The still point of the turning world,” a near perfect expression of Change and the Changeless. Eliot attended lectures in 1920s London by the Russian philosopher P.D. Ouspensky, featured in this Spring 2019 issue of Parabola; no surprise as the search for that still point is a perennial spiritual quest, one that has inspired seekers from the Buddha to Thoreau, Thomas Merton, and countless others including G.I. Gurdjieff, Ouspensky’s own teacher. Read more>

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Neil Patel

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Golden Temple, by Neil Patel

Learning to Die, by Brother David Steindl-Rast

The Art of Cleaning, by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee and Hilary Hart

Marion Woodman and the Search for the Conscious Feminine, by Patty de Llosa

Hearing the Cries of the World, by Mark Nepo

To Go Beyond Thought, an Interview with Karen Armstrong