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Excerpts from Voices 1:3,
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Every morning began at 4:00 am with a hard set of Kundalini Yoga followed by 2 and a half hours of serious meditation. That sounds extreme and it probably was. With the enthusiasm and energy of a teenager I dove into this lifestyle and in a few years I adopted the Sikh faith as my own religious path.

rust coloured dash Shanti Kaur Khalsa in "Following Yogi Bhajan: Sikh dharma thrives in the high desert"


The idea of diaspora implies multiple points of departure and multiple destinations; it implies instabilities and inequalities, not only in the meeting of two different cultures or populations but also within any of those cultures, groups and communities.

rust coloured dashJacinta Goveas in "Keeping the Faith: Change and continuity in the diaspora"


I honestly believe that if Indonesian Muslims were given what they deserve as citizens of a free country, they would prove themselves ardent defenders of pluralism and tolerance.

rust coloured dash Mohamad Ihsan Alief in "The Making of a Santri: Muslim or Indonesian?"


Many factors, including the international proliferation of the Hindu Diaspora, guru-based movements, and the pervasive impact of Hindu thought on contemporary Western spirituality, consciousness movements, alternative medicine and New Age ideology over the last several decades, have all thrust the Hindu ethos into the global arena.

rust coloured dash Rita DasGupta Sherma in "The Gifts of Exile: On being Hindu in the global era"


If the contest between individual liberty and communal identity is rendered contingent on individual choice, then the balance is already tilted toward the individualist side, and a form of community life that is more than a construction of individual choices is surreptitiously removed as a real possibility.

rust coloured dash Ronald Beiner in "Seeking the Holy Grail?: The communitarian-liberal debate"


The technological advances of cyber space have suddenly brought together Zarathushtis from Azerbaijan and Singapore, Houston and Montreal, who had not interacted with each other for thousands of years.

rust coloured dash Dolly Dastoor in "Zoroastrian.com: Internet reunites a scattered community"



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