Yoga: From the bestselling author of THE ADVERSARY

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.’

still remember it – vividly if confusedly – as being inspired by the Bardo in a way that’s as powerful as Philip K. Dick’s Ubik.

‘You’re not being asked to believe anything. Absolutely not. ‘Don’t believe: try. Take the plunge.

suddenly interrupted by Paul’s stunned, almost shocked voice: ‘Emmanuel, what are you doing? How are you typing?’ I look up, not really following. ‘Tell me it’s not true: are you typing with one finger?’ ‘Yes, I’m typing with one finger. I’ve always typed with one finger.’ ‘Now wait a minute,’ Paul goes on with growing amazement, as if he was gradu

Any situation, any state of the world or the mind is a combination of yin and yang: a changing, transitory combination that’s always evolving towards another combination. A yin force is destined to become a yang force, and vice versa, like night becomes day and day becomes night. The day tends towards dusk, the night towards dawn, yin is yang in th

In the words of one Buddhist sutra I love to the point of having quoted it twice already in my books: ‘A man who judges himself superior, inferior or even equal to another does not understand reality.’

‘martha argerich heroic polonaise’,

Diogenes,

‘If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.’ —Apocryphal Gospel of Thomas