Yoga: From the bestselling author of THE ADVERSARY

‘If you’d known, what would it have changed?’

I’ll say more about the Bardo, and in that context about a fantastic short story

They lie for twenty-odd years the way Jean-Claude Romand – whose devastating story I spent seven years writing – did, and then they end up massacring their family, wife, children, parents and dog, because now that we’ve come this far into the void, that’s all there’s left to do.

love this sentence by the anonymous fourteenth-century English mystic who wrote The Cloud of Unknowing: ‘It is not what you are nor what you have been that God looks at with his merciful eyes, but what you desire to be.’

when push comes to shove my favourite sentence is still Captain Haddock’s memorable line, the one I thought about a while ago, and which I think about quite often in fact: ‘It’s both very simple and very complicated.’

‘martha argerich heroic polonaise’,

When asked ‘Why is man on earth?’ Pythagoras answered: ‘To observe the heavens.’

also watched a documentary about Ram Dass on Netflix. Ram Dass, whose real name was Richard Alpert, was an apostle of LSD in the 1960s, along with Timothy Leary. Later

That’s a classic metaphor, the buffalo in its pen. It symbolises the mind: powerful, capable of great tasks, but also wild, impulsive, perpetually charging off in all directions. It must be tamed. That takes time, patience, skill. We let the buffalo run wild in its pen, then, tirelessly, we bring it back to its post. At the end, the trainer holds t

As the I Ching, the ancient book of divination that is at the source and heart of Chinese thought, says: ‘Perfect grace consists not in exterior ornamentation of the substance, but in the simple fitness of its form.’