Gregory David Roberts. Shantaram
Suffering is the way we test our love, especially our love for God.
Europe, April-May 2018
Just made a small driving trip: 1200+ km in one day to come back home, and almost 4000 km in 9 days to see the world: Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany Luxembourg Paris, France Versailles, France Disneyland, France Brussels, Belgium Gent, Belgium Rotterdam, Netherlands The Hague, Netherlands Amsterdam, Netherlands. Wait for…
Dan Simmons. The Fall of Hyperion
A less-enlightened personage once asked Urnmon. What is the God-nature/Buddha/Central Truth? Ummon answered him: A dried shit-stick
Gregory David Roberts. Shantaram
If fate doesn’t make you laugh, then you just don’t get the joke.
Conversations, thoughts, feelings
People are telling not what they thinking. And they're thinking not the way they are feeling. It is completely unclear what they mean. It seems they said "yes", but later you find out that it can look like "no". And…
Dan Simmons. Hyperion Cantos
On Heaven’s Gate, I discovered what a mental stimulant physical labor could be; not mere physical labor, I should add, but absolutely spine-bending, lung-racking, gut-ripping, ligament-tearing, and ball-breaking physical labor. But as long as the task is both onerous and…
Arkadi and Boris Strugatsky. Monday begins on Saturday
One ape tells the other: "Do you know what a conditioned reflex is? That's what happens when the bell rings and all these quasi-apes in white coats will run toward us with bananas and candies". Одна обезьяна говорит другой: «Знаешь,…
Bad Wolves – Zombie
Accidentally found this cover of The Cranberries - Zombie by Bad Wolves. Touches, as original touches. https://youtu.be/9XaS93WMRQQ?list=RDu9Dg-g7t2l4 #moodoftheday #cranberries #doloresoriordan #badwolves
Baltics 2018 – Route
The beginning of the post: http://korytskyy.lviv.ua/?p=2098 (or FB: https://www.facebook.com/oleksandr.korytskyy/posts/10215327336642153) Route Route is defined. Warsaw West Station - Kaunas - Vilnius - Daugavpils - Riga (2 days) - Narva - Tallinn (2 days) - Helsinki (2 days) - Haapsalu - Tuhala - Matsala - Saaremaa -…
Sun Tsu. Easy to unite people
People can be easily made united in their aspirations, if correct path is chosen, but you cannot discuss this path in their presence. Sun Tsu