A Globe of Creatures, We're In This Together
We are but mere flickers on this time and space continuum; it's a travesty that we're not enjoying this magical journey as much as we could.
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Nikhil Dhawan
- Nov 25, 2020
- 4 min
The Currency Of Time
How Notifications Are Making Us Go Broke On a recent Fall evening, I was out for a stroll in the crisp weather. The clouds in the sky...
Nikhil Dhawan
- Jul 2, 2020
- 13 min
The Time I Went Searching For My Dad's Birthplace
The date is June 22, 2017. I'm in Himachal Pradesh, the northern tip of India, near Pakistan's border. It's about 6 a.m., and I'm getting...
Nikhil Dhawan
- Jun 26, 2020
- 6 min
Purposeful Wounds
The easiest way for me to tell stories is by using phases of my life and sharing some context so you can put yourself in my shoes. This...
Nikhil Dhawan
- Mar 23, 2020
- 4 min
Accountability & Sharing
Last week I posted a piece about how I'm spending my time during this unique point in human history. Because of that post, I had a few...
Nikhil Dhawan
- Mar 16, 2020
- 3 min
How I'm Spending My Time
It's a unique time in history; it calls for changed behavior. If someone told us that we'd get a 2-3 week "break" from work or social...
Nikhil Dhawan
- Nov 19, 2019
- 3 min
Curating our Thoughts
Do you ever catch yourself drifting into a completely random train of thoughts and wonder why you just thought those things? Our inner...
Nikhil Dhawan
- Oct 21, 2019
- 1 min
Care for Your Mind, Care for Others
"How do you get an empathetic child? You get an empathetic child not by trying to teach the child and admonish the child to be...
Nikhil Dhawan
- Oct 16, 2017
- 4 min
End of the World
With everything that's going on in the world right now, it's understandable for people to question the signs of the universe. Are we...
Nikhil Dhawan
- Aug 10, 2017
- 3 min
When You Feel Uninspired
"The obstacles in our way are only two, though caused in various ways, namely, dullness and distraction (avarana and vikshepa)....The...
Nikhil Dhawan
- Jul 4, 2017
- 11 min
Earthly Angels
This is a follow-up to my last post, in case you haven’t read it. Friday, May 19 at approximately 7:00 in the morning, I published the...
Nikhil Dhawan
- May 18, 2017
- 5 min
Teaching or Learning?
Five weeks of teaching at a school in Nepal and the most popular questions (rightfully so) from my friends and family back home have...
Nikhil Dhawan
- May 10, 2017
- 2 min
Get Out of the Boat and Swim
“Most people are deeply attached to thinking…most people celebrate thought and value their ideas as their most personal property....
Nikhil Dhawan
- Apr 3, 2017
- 1 min
Don’t let your own thoughts take advantage of YOU.
“One of the hallmarks of experienced meditators is their ability to experience negative emotions without necessarily ‘getting caught up’...
Nikhil Dhawan
- Apr 3, 2017
- 6 min
The Announcement
If you’re thinking that I’ve been completely invested and inspired by what I’m doing in my life, then I’ve been unintentionally fooling...
Nikhil Dhawan
- Mar 31, 2017
- 7 min
Where Do We Belong?
Where do immigrants belong? This is a question that has been in the news for the past several months, and one that has plagued me...