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Purple prose
What matter age?
Suvarnabhumi—Golden Land
A response to “A Devoted Heart”
James K. Baxter: New Zealand's greatest poet
Recently overheard in Madal Bal
Pictures of Turkey
O Captain! My Captain!
Mono no aware: the Japanese beauty aesthetic
The Tale of Genji: The world's first novel
Reading Whitman writing Emerson
Ninjas assisting police in the UK
We quit!
Turning Japanese
Lines
Apple iPhone released today
Chinese coffee
The familiar and the familial
Reflections from a higher plane?
Reflections from a higher plane pt.6
Reflections from a higher plane pt.5
The computer generated play
Sweets?
Reflections from a higher plane pt.4
From Oxford to Iceland
The twenty best things ever said—by anyone
Sighted in public
The contributor of the rings
What I still want for Christmas
Reflections from a higher plane pt.3
Reflections from a higher plane pt.2
Reflections from a higher plane pt.1
Technical support
What I want for Christmas
Actual English subtitles used in films made in Hong Kong
Overheard on the subway
Christchurch Centre on TV
13 things that do not make sense
Not Italian for soulful
Artistic use of a MacBook Pro
A pale blue dot
20 funniest analogies collected by high school English teachers
It's Wellington's fault
Hayley Westenra sings "God Defend New Zealand"
German lessons
No free lunch
Teacher knows best?
Ancient mysteries
Thomas Sugrue: There is a River
Spaceship design
Return to puppy power
The World by Ibid
Paris syndrome
Airport anxiety
Cooking lessons
his story
Underhand heating
Intelligent Circulars Only
Where ends meet
Ten seconds of silence
One Tree Hill
Subversion 1.4 released today
Jetlagged
Needle in a Haystack
I wish that I was Hadlee pt.1
I've gone zen in Kamakura
Japan, Land of Beauty

Published Articles

A selection of articles previously published and unpublished on a wide variety of topics by John-Paul Gillespie.

Meditation—City Voice Article — by John Gillespie — last modified 2007-01-13 10:44 PM In May of 2001 Wellington's City Voice Newspaper published an article about the Sri Chinmoy Centre and its' ongoing community service in the form of free public meditation classes. The article was written by Centre member John Gillespie. sri_chinmoy_smiling.jpg — by John Gillespie — last modified 2006-08-31 03:42 PM Sri Chinmoy

Stories

First-hand experiences of meditation and spirituality.

Help From Above

Toshala Elliott Auckland, New Zealand

Experience of the Peace Run in Oxford

Tejvan Pettinger Oxford, United Kingdom

Filled with deepest joy

Tirtha Voelckner Munich, Germany

Meditation Nights at the Sri Chinmoy Centre

Preetidutta Thorpe Auckland, New Zealand

Spiritual Friends

Preetidutta Thorpe Auckland, New Zealand

The inner voice

Lunthita Duthely Hialeah, United States

Spiritual moments with my grandmother

Patanga Cordeiro São Paulo, Brazil

Suggested videos

interviews with Sri Chinmoy's students

Life in a spiritual workplace

Pranlobha Kalagian Seattle, United States

From religion to spirituality

Muslim Badami Auckland, New Zealand

Meditation: you make progress just by doing it

Jogyata Dallas Auckland, New Zealand

Experiences of meditation

Preetidutta Thorpe Auckland, New Zealand

My first impressions of Sri Chinmoy's philosophy

Lunthita Duthely Hialeah, United States

My road from meditation to the Olympics

Samunnati Lehonkova Ternopil, Ukraine

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