Anna B

If you are meditating in order to grow the wealth of your business then you are approaching the act with, as Buddhist’s would say, wrong intention

And when one submits to the self-compulsion of ideological thinking, one surrenders one’s inner freedom to think.

I don’t think I’m exaggerating when I say that we have grown wildly estranged from genuine wisdom or the humility with which erudition tempers facile notions of invincibility.

1) Write. There is no substitute. Write what you most passionately want to write, not blogs, posts, tweets or all the disposable bubblewrap in which modern life is cushioned. But start small: write a good sentence, then a good paragraph, and don’t be dreaming about writing the great American novel or what you’ll wear at the awards ceremony

I lend you a copy of the novel I loved, you read it, and now its beauty resides in both of our hearts

Woolf herself was ambivalent about “On Being Ill,” and about its opening sentence.

The right and the left share a sense of creeping doom, though for different reasons

On the one hand: “Illness makes us disinclined for the long campaigns that prose exacts