In India an explanation is often more confusing than what prompted it.
Close your senses and the imagination comes alive. It's inside us al, dulled by endless television reruns and by a society that reins in fantasy as something not to be trusted, something to be purged....
As I saw it, a little threatening was a good thing. It kept the men on their toes.
The pursuit of illusion is not about studying for prizes, or for study's sake. There's no right or wrong, no pass or fail.
In Morocco, said Osman, word spreads like a fire tearing through the depths of Hell.
I can’t believe there’s a prison anywhere out here,’ Blaine said, turning the engine off. ‘It’s the middle of nowhere.
He came to the conclusion that humans confused the content with the container.They would gorge themselves on great plates of inferior food, imagining it to be delicious because there was simply so muc...
Don’t waste your life following others! Be individual! Live your dreams!
These days no one challenges us,' he said. 'And because there is no challenge, there is no reason to work hard. And with no reason to work hard, we have all become lazy.
Time spent in India has a extraordinary effect on one. It acts as a barrier that makes the rest of the world seem unreal.
The idea of my heart dancing with delight was far too good to pass up.
That Morocco is not just another Arab country. It’s a crossroads – between Africa and Europe, and between Arabia and what lies west, beyond the Atlantic. But...’ Ghita said, her voice touched with an...
Never give charity if the reason is to make yourself feel better, he said. Real charity is not selfish, but selfless. After
I take reeds from the river that have been nurtured by fresh water and grown in good soil, and I turn them into baskets, a product that has so many uses. I know how to make baskets from something so s...
The first few hours in the cell were quite stimulating. I'd never been in a prison cell before and was quite enjoying the experience.
The backstreet cafe in Casablanca was for me a place of mystery, a place with a soul, a place with danger. There was a sense that the safety nets had been cut away, that each citizen walked upon the h...
I'm a fool, that I should simply trick the tourists like everyone else. after all, most of them will never come back. and what are tourists for but for tricking?
Two reeds drink from the same stream. One is hollow, the other is sugarcane. —MOROCCAN PROVERB
ORIENTAL CULTURE, OF which Morocco is certainly a part, has at its root a belief in selflessness. It’s a subject rarely spoken of in the West, and even less frequently understood. To be selfless, you...
In the West we are driven by an extreme form of guilt -- if you are not seen to be working like a dog, you're perceived as being slothful.