Sembra un paradosso ma per esser davvero oziosi bisogna essere efficienti
Therefore, the idle parent who wants to stop the whining needs to stop whining himself, and one way is to resist the call to work ever longer and harder hours. Throw your BlackBerry into the river. Un...
The pedestrian is the highest and most mighty of beings; he walks for pleasure, he observes but does not interfere, he is not in a hurry, he is happy in the company of his own mind, he wanders detache...
The first drink of the day brings us into the present moment: we become Buddhists. That first drink also has a physically restorative effect. I find I can spend all day complaining about being tired,...
Self-importance is a trap, because the moment we start to think that we actually matter is the moment when things start to go wrong. The truth is that you are supremely unimportant and nothing matters...
Existuje pošetilá představa, že nemá cenu něco dělat, pokud v tom nejste absolutně nejlepší, což vede k tomu, že většina z nás nedělá vůbec nic.
Being safe is fiction.
Behaving as if you are better than others shows a lack of regard for other people.
The myth suggests to us that a good job will offer us ample money, a social life, status and work which we will find rewarding. It’s actually astonishing how little we pause to reflect on these terms...
You don’t get ads on the Underground saying: Tired? Then Sleep More, as no one has figured out how to make money this way.
This is possibly what drove Amy Winehouse and Kurt Cobain to early graves. They could not handle being cogs. They could not handle monetizing their content. That was not the reason they become bohemia...
Beauty feeds us. Anarchy is beauty. We are against the grey people. We want to decorate, like those fantastic Indian lorries which are covered with flowers. Beauty must conquer the lust for order; ord...
After the alarm clock, it is the turn of Mr Kellogg to shame us into action. 'Rise and Shine!' he exhorts us from the Corn Flakes packet. The physical act of crunching cornflakes or other cereals is p...