Fortunately the Omanis are generally very friendly and in no time at all, I had a knight in shining white dishdasha offering to help me.

At the Beginning there was Incomplete information,then belief and then an abstract idea but if you reach Pure reasoning then you start to understand the dualities of life itself.The sunset,the sunrise;A star from approximately 93...

It is an empty room, that afterwards, a soledad, and it sits there at the center of a person’s life and waits to be filled.

Our stories are mirrors. We can look into them and return to ourselves. We can make of them an offering.

Write them all down. The mistakes and the blessings and the places you cracked in two. Write the prayers and the tantrums. The sacred and the profane. The open roads and the closed doors. Nothing...

In an attempt to help me move on from my failed marriage, my mom set me up with Jesus Freak. In fact, the stoner hadn’t even finished moving out when she told me not to...

I wear the word victim like a badge of honor — my own purple heart. I see what others do more than I see what I’m capable of.

In life you’ll meet a lot of jerks. If they hurt you, tell yourself that it’s because they’re stupid. That will help keep you from reacting to their cruelty. Because there is nothing worse than...

In France, Paul explained, good cooking was regarded as a combination of national sport and high art, and wine was always served with lunch and dinner. “The trick is moderation,” he said.

I’d rather be single, happy, and lonely sometimes than married, lonely, and happy sometimes.

We’re human. We all occasionally wet ourselves. No one is really better than anyone else. We’re just all trying to make it through the year as best we can. We screw up sometimes. We succeed...

Don’t push me, I’m hormonal.”I’m not really a lousy detective, just rough around the edges.

Love is bigger than everything.

A lot of men tend to want “models.” I tell men unless they look like a model themselves, they can’t expect to land one.

You had a certain way of saying my name. It was the inflection maybe, something you put into those three syllables. And now you are gone and my name is just my name again, not...

I believe in beauty. I believe in goodness. I believe in the power of turning: the other cheek, time, curve of the earth.

[V]alue your dreams but . . . be wary of them also, . . . look for integrity in unusual places.

I had a head for religious ideas. They were the first ideas I ever encountered. They made other ideas seem mean….I had miles of Bible in memory: some perforce, but most by hap, like the...

I Have Fought the Good Fight and Won

Into every sunny life a little rain must fall.

I try to be perfect but I’m not. I’m perfectly imperfect in every way.

He was lonely. I could see that. He was working his butt off-and mine, too-in the hope that a million rupees might sort out his sex life. I prayed to Buddha he would be successful....

…I didn’t want to be a passenger on someone else’s motorcycle.I wanted to be the one riding that motherfucker.

A lifelong movie I already knew the ending to

The Lush hadn’t driven in almost a decade – ever since she got in an accident that shook her so badly she refused to get behind the wheel. As you can imagine, someone nicknamed The...

Kadang kita menemukan teman, sahabat, saudara di tempat yang tidak kita duga. Dan mungkin juga cinta. Tapi yang paling menyenangkan dalam sebuah perjalanan adalah menemukan itu semua, termasuk cinta. Apa pun bentuknya.

I never said to myself, I am longing; that feeling lived at a level below language.

futuristic…” Of course there wasn’t any black light in the center of the earth, in the caves where they were quarried; how strange that these stones should have to be brought here, bathed with this...

Meditation and mindfulness are tools for working with the mind, but where they have led me is to a blossoming of the heart…

We are paint streaked runners,deafened by the cries of all the sad people. It’s a powerful sound that practically yanks the tears right out of you. Sometimes, you just can’t help but feel like a...

If I can only write my memoir once, how do I edit it?

In the process of my evolution, I became a victim of domestic war, an emotional casualty for a major portion of my life, entwined, entrapped and emotionally involved, until I learned how to become free....

I was just four when a hired teenage field hand attempted to molest me. Miraculously, I got away, and I told my dad. My father made three important choices that day: He listened to me,...

I want to share my story, and I want to know yours. I believe with all my heart that sharing our stories, the real, ugly, broken ones, is one of the most powerful things in...

Sebuah memoir bukan sekadar bercerita tentang episod-episod, watak-watak dan diri pengarang dalamnya, tetapi juga persoalan kepercayaan, nilai-nilai zaman, visi manusia, dan dialektik yang terjadi hasil perbenturan intelektual dalam kalangan masyarakat.

At times I feel as if I am spread out over the landscape and inside things, and am myself living in every tree, in the splashing of the waves, in the clouds and the animals...

I like it here. I like the girls, and I like the DJ’s, and the cocktail waitresses, and the loud rock’n’roll (though I would happily beat everyone in Poison to death with the severed limbs...

Negative self talk costs more than even the richest person can afford. So be nice to yourself whenever possible … and know that it is always possible.

…Having felt the piercing gash of grief and lived through it, having loved to the brink of brokenness, and having learned the difference between friendship and frivolity, one eventually takes a conscious step through the...

I had to get a close-hand view of the misery and unhappiness of a man made world, before I reached the point where I could successfully revolt against it.

Time is going really faster than you think. That second just passed now, get up, pack the bag, get lost…

I’d written Smashed not because I was ambitious and not because writing down my feelings was cathartic (it felt more like playing one’s own neurosurgeon sans anesthesia). No. I’d made a habit–and eventually a profession–of...

Royal Young has accomplished a rare feat in his fresh and riveting debut: he manages to recount his fascinating youth and unconventional family with a mixture of humor, scathing honesty and tenderness. Much more than...

One last characteristic of the memoir that is important to recognize is one which also applies to essays, and which Georg Lukacs described as “the process of judging.” This may seem problematic to some, since…we...

A vow is a heavenly created obligation in motion that only ends when fully completed.

Choose this life. Choose this body. Say yes to all of it. Say yes to the beauty and the good and the ugly and the difficult. Choose what you have, what you are. Choose this...

It’s why I get miffed at all the dashing around in recent zombie films. It completely misses the point; transforms the threat to a straightforward physical danger from the zombies themselves, rather than our own...

It’s very kind of you to take us in,” said the vicar, smiling. “We’re so sorry if we’ve put you out at all.” “Not at all!” I said, lying through my teeth.

We must define a story which encourages us to make use of the place where we live without killing it, and we must understand that the living world cannot be replicated.

How deluded we sometimes are by the clear notions we get out of books.