Awakin Calls

Gayatri Naraine’s spiritual curiosity about “soul consciousness” first awakened after a visit by a Hindu nun early in the morning, followed a few hours later by a cousin’s sudden death in a road accident. It was 1975; she was ...

“Hidden truths permeate our world; they're inaccessible to our senses, but math allows us to go beyond our intuition to uncover their mysteries.”  - Cédric Villani

Cédric Villani is a celebrated French mathematici...

"When Radical Remission survivors talk to me about trying to feel more love, joy, and happiness in order to help their bodies heal, they talk about it as they would talk about flossing their teeth or working out: they see happiness as a habit you hav...

We sweep dust to remove our worldly desires. We scrub dirt to free ourselves of attachments.

Can sweeping the floor or scrubbing a sink unlock the secrets to a peaceful mind? For Shoukei Matsumoto, a Buddhist monk and author rooted in the Japanese Z...

[Special Note: Dr. Jagdish Dave is a regular volunteer of Servicespace – week upon week, one can find his insightful comments on the Awakin readings. On May 15, 2025 he turns 100 and on the brink of the milestone, we are honored to gather for t...

I chose to teach not because I wanted to teach per se, but because I longed to share and play with others. I started what is in truth calling a person from within, seeking to remind the willing soul of the beauty that lies therein.— Zulma Reyo

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The desire to know your own soul will end all other desires - Rumi.

Italian by origin, Roberta Calarese is one of the leading legal professionals in the Middle East. As Chief Legal Officer of Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), she develope...

Join us for an impromptu dialogue between James O'dea and Nipun Mehta. Battling advanced stages of Parkinson's disease,  he felt moved to share two particularly intense and spiritually relevant events that have ignited insight and deeply stirred...

“Plants are our kin and ancestors,” says Jemma Foster, an artist, writer, and researcher-advocate of plants, “and these masters of adaptation and survival can be our greatest teachers, if only we learn to listen.” Through her ...

“We’re all writing the stories of our lives … and we can choose to write stories of the restoration of relationships, and of the rebirth of communities, and of individual dignity being restored.” 

For more than two deca...