While there is still time

Alexis Zorba: Damn it boss, I like you too much not to say it. You've got everything except one thing: madness! A man needs a little ma...

".....The Buddha’s return is a pivotal movement, one of those rare events when the divine penetrates history and transfigures it. Like ...

"....Anthropologists found that schizophrenia is strongest among those whose ties with the cultural traditions are weakest: drug users,...

...Never the murdered finalities of wherewhen and yesno,impotent nongames of wrongright and rightwrong;never to gain or pause,never the soft...

On that hot summer afternoon in Delhi, on the way to the airport, you see these men in orange robes walking barefeet by the side of the road...

"...He returned to the clarinet, whose emotional range, from the riotous to the stately, he had not suspected when he was younger. He f...

"Henry had written a novel because there was a hole in him that needed filling, a question that needed answering, a patch of canvas t...

New music from Clio, on the Greek Harp - http://www.myspace.com/clioharp

The Five Hundred Gold Pieces One of Junaid's followers came to him with a purse containing five hundred gold pieces. "Have you any ...

The last time I saw you, we met for coffee on a snowy day. Outside the window of the coffee shop, the snow fell silently & heavily, ...

Thanks to a friend who gifted me this book - 'Laburnum for my head' - I got to read my first collection of short stories from a writ...

Going through some Sufi Teaching Stories the other day, I am once again struck by the marked preference for the youngest child.  Have you no...

"".......He (Somerset Maugham) became convinced, like Zola and Dreiser, that what we call character has a physical basis, that it...

On the raft, with old friend Huck... "...We catched fish and talked, and we took a swim now and then to keep off sleepiness. It was kin...

There is no such thing as boredom When you are stuck in a traffic jam, when you are waiting for someone, when you are stranded on a shop ver...