Along came a centipede One day I got up to write early in the morning, and for an hour or so this was my only occupation as the last shades of night were fading and the dawn illumined the sky. I was working on a novel, researching the works of Albert Camus and Alan Watts. The text flowed meekly onto...

Nathen checked the time it was 12:20 PM. They still had 40 minutes left from their lunchbreak so he left his phone on the table and continued to explain: “All of these office dwellers, from the office assistants to the CEO himself, have one thing in common. They are constantly looking for a way out”,...

Great despair prompted my travel to Tibet in search of truth. Even greater despair came in seeking out a Guru named Wangdue, a hermit and sage who was able to become invisible whilst meditating. While hiking and camping in the Tibetan mountains for months on end, I got only two glimpses of what seemed...

This book was my first major introduction into Zen Buddhism. Its author Alan Watts started as an Episcopal priest, but soon after joined the American Academy of Asian Studies and consequently wrote many books on Zen Buddhism, on Taoism, Hinduism, Christianity, conscientiousness, religion and philosophy....

This story will start particularly embarrassing. It was a warm Sunday around the beginning of May when a wave of anxiety came over me. I was researching different platforms, wondering, which one to pick as my first attempt in blogging. In an instances I felt tremendously overwhelmed and inadequate. My...

For this review, I went and re-read “Night flight” by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, who is most famous for his novella “The Little Prince”. I read “Night flight” for the first time when I was 17 years and in my memory, it was at least 150 pages long. It actually is only 58! It is not an accident that my...