If you’re not very careful, your creative business, the very thing which you hoped would lead to liberty and riches, will instead trap you in a hell of hard-working poverty.
Anxiety suits the status quo very well. Anxious people make good consumers and good workers. Governments and big business, therefore, love terrorism – they adore it, it’s good for business. Anxiety wi...
I could happily lean on a gate all the livelong day, chatting to passers-by about the wind and the rain. I do a lot of gate-leaning while I am supposed to be gardening; instead of hoeing, I lean on th...
The terrible irony is that when our current job turns out to provide neither much money nor much fun, we think we can solve the problem by getting a better job. So it goes on: an endless cycle, a mise...
When people say I just don't have enough time they mean I prioritized something else.
We feel small under the stars, yet paradoxically we feel more ourselves. We are who we are.
The idea of the job as the answer to all woes, individual and social, is one of the most pernicious myths of modern society. It is promoted by politicians, parents, newspaper moralists and leaders of...
Screens make us into passive receivers. Smash the screen and find a pencil and a piece of paper instead.
If we realized that meditation simply means staring into space, then it would be more accessible to more people. It’s easy. A window is all you need. I remember being at school and being able to spend...
There is a vast gap between the promise of the job and its reality. When we enter the ignoble world of work, we are soon shocked at the humiliations we encounter there.
Pain will never leave us. Instead of putting energy into destroying pain, we need to put energy into creating pleasure.
Malé děti poznají lépe Coca-Colu než pórek. Je to tím, že Coca-Cola za marketing ročně utratí dvě miliardy dolarů.
Making stuff is easy. Selling it is not.
How much more fun life must have been when we went around on horses, chatting to strangers, leaning over gates, leaping over fences, singing with joy, being at one with nature, its animals and its wea...
Being safe is fiction.
The fat cats used to send us into the mills to make their millions, and now they send us to the shopping centres.
Even though, as children, we hear our parents complaining every night about their bosses or co-workers, it doesn’t put us off the world of work. We think it will be different for us.
The art of living is the art of bringing dreams and reality together.
Take responsibility for our lives and recognize that we choose how we react to situations and that we can choose to be free if we so wish.
We bore ourselves in order to earn money that we'll later spend on trying to de-bore ourselves