An old monk and a young monk were walking along the road when they came to a rushing stream. It was neither too wide nor too deep. They were about to wade across when a beautiful young woman, who had been waiting on the bank, approached them. She was elegantly dressed, and she fluttered her fan and batted her eyelashes, smiling at them with big eyes.
Read MoreIn the dimly lit inner sanctum, there were some thirty pianos, each covered with a soft white sheet. Our host, a wealthy piano collector, told us various virtuosi and composers had owned these pianos. He asked us if we would like to hear a piece. Yeses and nods.
Read MoreSome time ago, I had met Peter, an artist of some note. He had one of those meteoric rises to fame straight out of his master of fine arts education, but, as of late, interest among the public had been waning for whatever reason.
Read MoreHow can your work be original if you think, speak, and act in clichés? Once your ear is attuned to this disability, you will mend your ways and your art will naturally become authentic.
Read MoreHave you ever experienced what you thought was good news that turned out to be bad news—or bad news that turned out to be good news? Only time reveals the future.
Read MoreEpiphanies in the Hood
There are extraordinary life lessons all around us; we need only be aware of them.
Read MoreA Kafka Mirror
In “The Metamorphosis,” Franz Kafka shocked readers with a grotesque fable about a man who wakes up one morning to discover he has been transformed into an insect, which dovetails with the Buddhist world view of rebirth, or transmigration of the soul.
Read MoreAs luck would have it—
Sometimes serendipity is defined as having a natural gift for making wondrous discoveries by accident—but there are no accidents, or coincidences as it were; there is only timing.
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