Blog – Vitamita

Man is related to the whole thing, related inextricably to all reality, known and unknowable. This is a simple thing to say, but the profound feeling of it made a Jesus, a St. Augustine, a St. Francis, a Roger Bacon, a Charles Darwin, and an Einstein. Each of them in his own tempo and with his own voice discovered and reaffirmed with astonishment the knowledge that all things are one thing.

John Steinbeck

January 29, 2022

A Viral Pause for Viral Peace

By Amita ShuklaFood for thought

A Viral Pause for Viral Peace By Amita Shukla (This is adapted from a piece written for the JHU Last Lecture Series on “Wellness of the Mind” in 2020, where Amita was invited to speak before the pandemic turned those lectures into essays.) As the Covid-19 pandemic swept the globe,...

July 1, 2020

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Over the clean stones by the sea/ I came jumping today/ Stone cool/ Jumping fit/ I meant to ask the sea about something/ that’s troubling me/ The sea listened/ and I forgot the question.

Helge Torvund (Norwegian poet)

August 18, 2017

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Into the 3D Mind in the Land of Fjords and the Midnight Sun

By Amita Shukla3D Mind

Majestic mountains, glittering seas, lush forests, and vast open fields reveal Earth’s beauty in its purest form. When we surround ourselves with Nature—and surrender to it—serenity enters our being. The body relaxes, the mind reboots, the spirit rejoices. Being in Nature is one of the most powerful paths into the...

August 2, 2017

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Vital Words for Our Times from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

By Amita Shukla3D Mind, Food for thought

Vital Words for Our Times from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by Amita Shukla January 16, 2017 Washington, DC – A year ago I shared Dr. Martin Luther King's insightful words on the mind in a short article. Many said it touched a nerve and noted the urgent relevance to...

January 16, 2017

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Each of us has the capacity, if only in some little way, to lift the level of humanity to higher heights, and thereby share in a greatness that outlasts the fall of empires. All history in the end bears witness to the fact that greatness—all greatness that lasts—is service.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

January 15, 2017

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The Vitamita Credo

By VitamitaVitamita

One winter evening over a decade ago, I came home after an especially challenging and exhausting week at work. As I began to unwind, I wondered what advice I could offer the entrepreneurs and leaders I had met that week. Over the next hour, I wrote down the core principles...

February 1, 2015

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The American commitment is not to affluence, nor to all the cushioned comforts of a well-fed nation, but to the liberation of the human spirit, the release of human potential, the enhancement of individual dignity. Those are the great themes of our life as a people. Everything else is a means to those ends.

John Gardner

January 29, 2015

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