Being mindful of how the losses of life affect our hearts. Life guarantees us two things: change and loss, together they make up the unpredictable rhythm of life. They also exert tremendous pressure on the soul. If we don’t stop long enough to notice, we’ll wake up one day and wonder why the light’s gone out of our eyes, and …
Marry a whore. Keep her as your wife. She will betray you continuously, but you must love her and never leave her. You will be rejected continuously. You will be seen as a fool. Your life will be painful. Your reputation challenged. You will need to trust me. You will need to depend on me. You will always need to …
It’s a rainy day today, the kind of day that surrounds one in melancholy. Something stirs in my memory as I reach down to set my warm cup of tea beneath my chaise. It’s sorrow, roaming the distant corridors of my mind and pulling me back—back to those difficult days of grief after my father’s death, where pain and suffering …
Once upon a time, there was a king and queen who were very unhappy because they had no children. Everything else that the heart could wish for was theirs. Yet none of these things made them happy, because they wanted a little child of their own to love and to care for. When a princess was finally born, there was …