IS ANYBODY THERE?



















“Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us
what we need to know.”

Pema Chodrun

Spirituality has nothing to do with our religions and rituals. What happens inside our hearts, at present, is enough to make us all spiritual… There is no ‘Your God’, “My God’ and ‘Their God’. And, God doesn’t need those colossal worship places… not even those Holy Books… What goes on inside us, that’s enough!

If men don’t want to budge an inch, or even half-an-inch, let it be… They all will be swept away, anyway, when God strikes down his whip!

Funny it all seems… This brute arrogance and resistance!

Who is the ‘persecuted minority’ on this planet, now? Who is going to give shelter to whom? Who is going to include or exclude whom?

We all seem standing alone and crying out:
“Is anybody there?”
“Is anybody there?”
“Is anybody there?”

That’s how we all learn to know the difference between our religions and spirituality…

To be spiritual, our hearts are enough!

In this eerie silence, we all can hear the voice of God and see Him very, very clearly… The mighty monuments we built for Him, He never wanted anyway…

And who are we to give anyone a ‘citizenship’ here?
Whose land is it, anyway?

Time to bring about another CAA – the ‘Conscience Amendment Act’…

Yes, I said, ‘ACT’!






GERALD D’CUNHA

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Video: tandav films


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muskaan said…
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March 31, 2020 at 8:45 PM
ap.littlehappynotes@gmail.com said…
is anybody there? ..... oh no,right now, we are in a 'no human's land' 🙂
March 31, 2020 at 8:55 PM
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