You were born with wings; why prefer to crawl through life? ~Rumi Grab your Rumi: A Photographic Gallery of Inspirational Quotes for FREE on Amazon both on Sunday Sept. 30th – Rumi’s 805th birthday – and on Monday Oct 1st. Read it on your Kindle Fire, iPad, iPhone, or computer with a FREE Kindle Reading [...]
Why I Read The Call of the Wild Well, it’s a brilliant classic by Jack London and the main hero is a dog by the name of Buck! Who doesn’t love classics or dogs? I felt that on a miniscule scale, I could relate to Buck in his departure from the comfortable life to follow [...]
“People have frequently complained about the manner in which death interrupts life.” ~Tolstoy I read The Death of Ivan Illyich not only because it is the work of brilliant Leo Tolstoy, a genius whose every prose cuts through my heart, but also because Dr. Wayne Dyer once said that reading this book at 19 completely [...]
Two hours ago, I was in a small jam-packed London theater, joining in on a much-deserved standing ovation to the cast of Shakespeare’s The Tempest. Some of the finest Shakespearean actors, most notably Ralph Fiennes, indulged us tonight with an unforgettably moving performance. Pleasure, sadness, delight and joy, smiles and tears, deep reflection and thrilling [...]
The Happy Journey of the Classics Rudely Interrupted “I would like to read you on a complete disaster of a book and why it should be buried!!” My eccentric Scottish friend sent me these words well over a year ago – and how I have wondered if I would fulfill that request at some point. [...]
I did not expect to find so much lasting imagery from Louisa May Alcott’s beautiful “Little Women“: The sisters writing plays and acting them out loudly up in their attic. Mother coming home to 4 overjoyed girls who hang on her every word and move. The sisters packing up their Christmas breakfast – tea and [...]
How beautiful to see that timeless poetry and literary classics preserve their relevance across generations. How awe-inspiring that they transcend all nationalities, religions, ethnicity and apply to our life today. How extraordinary that such wisdom usually comes to us from the sages who have suffered greatly in their life. How fortunate for us that such [...]
I have a ritual with my books – first, to come into possession of book (through some generous source as I rarely buy books), read/inhale/digest the book, write a deeply personal blog post on book, keep book on shelf (if I loved it)/donate book to library (if I didn’t love it)/give book away to anyone [...]
Reading Anna Karenina has been so overwhelming and gratifying that I chose to walk away from it for a short while. I decided to take time to digest the scope, the breadth, the depth in this masterpiece of a novel. It is of course an overly ambitious task to ever digest it all. This is [...]
Aside from a handful of reading assignments in high school and a few beloved thick classics which slipped through, I turned my back to literature and the classics for the sake of science, engineering, and a career in technology. “How on earth would English Literature or any other classic help me toward excelling in grad [...]
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