I hope we have a beautiful day. ♡
Here’s another light-filled ¤ Gem ¤

“Ross Gay, who’s a poet who also speaks very highly of your work. He said in an interview with Krista Tippet, ‘Sometimes I think there’s this conception of joy as meaning something easy. To me, joy has nothing to do with ease, and joy has everything to do with the fact that we’re all going to die. When I’m thinking about joy, I’m thinking that at the same time as something wonderful is happening and that connection is being made in my life, we’re also in the process of dying.’ And that’s every moment. Your work is so joyous, and it comes up in a lot of the reviews that people write about your work. “It’s exhilarating. It’s exuberant. It’s joyful.” And I’m wondering, for you, how does that joy connect with transience or impermanence?”

-Pavi Mehta, quoting Ros Gay to Krista Tippet, to Amy Leach, Awakin.org

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Pavi often hosts Awakin Calls. Here’s one of my favorite videos of Pavi speaking about her beloved grandfather, the founder of Aravind Eye Hospital, Dr. Govindappa Venkataswamy and the book she wrote about this miraculous Infinite Vision.