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Genius. The word beguiles, but do I really know what it means? (ERIC WEINER)

Almost everything in this world of illusion is a lie. That is why I ask my apprentices to follow three rules for seeing...

10 August, 2022

If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start. (CHARLES BUKOWSKI)

If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even...

09 August, 2022

I love you more… (JORGE & DEMIAN BUCAY)

My wife often has the following ‘argument’ with our older son: He: “I love you Mom.” She: “I love you too, Son.” He...

08 August, 2022

“Authentic love for another is rejoicing in the loved one’s very existence.” (JORGE & DEMIAN BUCAY)

It feels very good to say to someone that we’ll love them regardless of what happens. The classic wedding vows — “in sickness and in...

06 August, 2022

My grandfather, Gandhi, taught me … (ARUN GANDHI)

Many people today have a cartoon image of my grandfather as a saintly man who gave up all material goods and wore as...

05 August, 2022

Andy Warhol, Albert Einstein and other deranged geniuses

There’s a fine line, it is said, between genius and insanity. But do the two always go hand in hand? In her new book,...

04 August, 2022

All we perform is no other than a cento… (MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE)

Bashful, insolent; chaste, lustful; prating, silent; laborious, delicate; ingenious, heavy; melancholic, pleasant; lying, true; knowing, ignorant; liberal, covetous, and prodigal: I find all...

03 August, 2022

One can only use what one has already learned to handle (IDRIES SHAH)

A LONE fisherman one day brought up a brass bottle, stoppered with lead, in his net. Though the appearance of the bottle was...

02 August, 2022

Nobody could ever be called happy until they were dead (EDITH HALL)

A primordial Greek proverb maintained that nobody could ever be called happy until they were dead. It was a favourite saying of Solon,...