Since I’m a practicing Buddhist I meditate regularly. The main goal of meditation is to reduce the difference between the state experienced during meditation and the state after meditation. During Buddhist meditation we experience that each moment is loaded with endless opportunities and that we are full of energy and can look forward to every second. Basically in our everyday life we get tired because we see the things surrounding us from the same perspective, the same things happen to us and we react in the same way all the time and don’t try consciously to change it. We get so wearied in it that we often feel ourselves unable to continue. Meditate if you can because it has curing effects!
When All Seems Lost — and Even When It Doesn’t… As a writer, I read more than average. Not necessarily books that fall within my immediate interests, but rather those I can learn from, marvel at, analyze word by word, and sometimes even those that demand more effort from me than usual. That is how it is with Alice Munro. I bought my first book by her when she received the Nobel Prize. Then life happened, and the volume sat on my bookshelf—either I had no time for it, or it lingered somewhere at the bottom of my list of priorities. When I finally picked it up, I could hardly believe my eyes—or my reaction. First, I was utterly outraged; my blood pressure shot through the roof in an instant, and I almost started swearing in disbelief. I had barely skimmed the first few lines, yet that was enough to know: it was perfect. A true masterpiece. Excellence among the excellent. Every word reached the deepest layers of my soul. I was touched by its purity, its delicacy, the noblest simpli...
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