This book offers ten new commandments for coping with the stresses, strains and pressures of modern life. These ten new commandments are ten skillful attitudes for the attainment of your true self: be present; observe yourself; be nothing; flee attachment; transcend suffering; drop your illusions; p[...]
Sometimes we can lose touch with ourselves so much that we spend our days going through the motions, without really experiencing our lives. In today's world, we expend so much energy looking forward, rushing on to the next thing, or looking backwards, stressing and worrying about our perceived mista[...]
Sometimes we can lose touch with ourselves so much that we don't even know we have done so, until suddenly we realise with a start that we have just been going through the motions, without really experiencing our lives. The simple fact is that in today's world, we spend so much time looking forward,[...]
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, a child prodigy who became an adult genius, died in debt and was buried in an unmarked grave in his adopted home of Vienna. Mozart needed no formal lessons in composition. He'd been composing since the age of five, and possessed astonishing musical memory, able to re-create [...]