Born on January 1, 1919, in New York, J.D. Salinger was a literary giant despite his slim body of work and reclusive lifestyle. His landmark novel, The Catcher in the Rye, set a new course for literature in post-WWII America and vaulted Salinger to the heights of literary fame. In 1953, Salinger moved from […]
SIX MONTHS IN A YOUNG WOMAN’S LIFE. “The Bell Jar is a novel about the events of Sylvia Plath’s twentieth year; about how she tried to die, and how they stuck her together with glue. It is a fine novel, as bitter and remorseless as her last poems — the kind of book […]
You go the same pub you order the same exact drink you ordered yesterday. You’ve been going there for along time now, you stopped worrying of who would be there because you are already familiar with everyone. It’s the part of your brain where it keeps sending you those de ja vu images. “Have I […]
Who am I ? I cannot say U see my seasons , they change from day to day Poets, priest assassin, theif.. My magic suspends when I disbelief Who am I? Im just a pack of lies I am a tower of cards Of an old seeing eye Tear down your lying idols And let […]
This piece from Shams Tabriz where Rumi describes his night at the bar: Where am I from? O barman pass me my drink, Pour that cheerful and holly liquor on my soul, O Barman, Put the beloved glass in my hands, thus it is my rock in despair O Barman, You are the […]
What is to be done, O Moslems? for I do not recognize myself. I am neither Christian, nor Jew, nor Gabr, nor Moslem. I am not of the East, nor of the West, nor of the land, nor of the sea; I am not of Nature’s mint, nor of the circling’ heaven. I am not […]
Experience has taught me that silence is part of the spiritual discipline of a votary of truth. From his book – The story of my experiments with truth AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY OR The story of my experiments with truth TRANSLATED FROM THE GUJARATI BY MAHADEV DESAI download ebook: gandhiexperiments
I am He whom I love, And He whom I love is I: We are two spirits Dwelling in one body. If thou sees me Thou see him And if thou sees him Thou see us both With such mysticism we started our journey. We didn’t have anything planned just two souls on the road […]
“My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.” – Rumi Rumi (Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī) was a 13th Century Sufi mystic and poet, from Persia (Rumi was born in modern day Afghanistan and lived for a while in Turkey). Rumi’s poetry expresses his longing for union with […]
