Leela Kirloskar
Making Meaning of Success
Meaning is not something you stumble across, like the answer to a riddle or the prize in a treasure hunt. Meaning is something you build...
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Leela Kirloskar
- Nov 4, 2022
- 3 min
Letting Life In
You become. It takes a long time. That’s why it doesn’t happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be...
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Leela Kirloskar
- Apr 23, 2022
- 3 min
Bringing in Simplicity
Oh do you have time to linger for just a little while out of your busy and very important day for the goldfinches that have gathered in a...
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Leela Kirloskar
- Mar 1, 2022
- 3 min
Moving from Center
When the big things feel out of control, focus on what you love, right under your nose. ~ Charlie Mackesy We end February on a strange...
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Leela Kirloskar
- Jan 31, 2022
- 3 min
Embodying your Values
Integrity is choosing courage over comfort. It’s choosing what is right over what is fun, fast, or easy. It’s choosing to practice your...
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Leela Kirloskar
- May 13, 2021
- 3 min
Moving through Grief
Those who will not slip beneath the still surface on the well of grief turning downward through its black water to the place we cannot...
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Leela Kirloskar
- Apr 29, 2021
- 3 min
Gathering Barefoot Wisdom
And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair… ~ Kahlil Gibran Spring was...
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Leela Kirloskar
- Mar 4, 2021
- 3 min
The Resonance of Values
The marvelous thing about a good question is that it shapes our identity as much by the asking as by the answering. ~ David Whyte Like...
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Leela Kirloskar
- Jan 7, 2021
- 2 min
A Season of Hope
‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers – That perches in the soul – And sings the tune without the words – And never stops – at all – … ~...
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Leela Kirloskar
- Dec 9, 2020
- 3 min
Life, On Purpose
“…true purpose is found in giving yourself one hundred percent to every moment, rather than having to do with any kind of achievement.” ~...
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Leela Kirloskar
- Aug 28, 2020
- 3 min
Moving through Fear
The price of our vitality is the sum of all our fears. ~ David Whyte Only a few months ago I was posting photographs of dry grass and...
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Leela Kirloskar
- Feb 10, 2020
- 8 min
Clarity in Presence
Remember who you are. ~ Mufasa (The Lion King) To experience untrammelled presence, watch an animal in the wild one day. Whether it’s a...
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Leela Kirloskar
- Nov 27, 2019
- 3 min
A Slice of Holiday Alchemy
And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely...
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Leela Kirloskar
- Dec 24, 2018
- 5 min
The Beauty of Resilience
…, beauty is life when life unveils her holy face. But you are life and you are the veil. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in the...
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Leela Kirloskar
- Jul 25, 2018
- 4 min
Doing Kitchen Work
If you don’t know the kind of person I am and I don’t know the kind of person you are a pattern that others made may prevail in the world...
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Leela Kirloskar
- Jul 16, 2016
- 3 min
Finding Ground
“…to come to ground is to begin the courageous conversation, to step into difficulty and by taking that first step, begin the movement...
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Leela Kirloskar
- Jun 28, 2015
- 5 min
Showing Up for Children
“Do not ask your children to strive for extraordinary lives. Such striving may seem admirable, but it is the way of foolishness. Help...
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Leela Kirloskar
- Feb 10, 2015
- 4 min
Leaning in to Life
I want to think again of dangerous and noble things. I want to be light and frolicsome. I want to be improbable and beautiful and afraid...
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Leela Kirloskar
- Nov 27, 2014
- 3 min
Contemplating Kindness
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness. ~ Dalai Lama XIV Through the window of my gym early one morning two weeks ago, I...
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Leela Kirloskar
- Nov 7, 2014
- 4 min
Accessing Your Creativity
I’m sitting in the November afternoon sun, at the local Starbucks ten minutes away from my little studio apartment in Berkeley. On offer...
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