Idleness is a Virtue

Help the folks, who need your help the most at this hour! Donate to Goonj to help our daily wage earners and labourers. click to embiggen “I have often wondered whether especially those days when we are forced to remain idle are not precisely the days spent in the most profound activity. Whether our actions themselves, even if they do not take place until later, are nothing more than the last reverberations of a vast movement that occurs within us during idle days. In any case, it is very important to be idle with confidence, with devotion, possibly even with joy. The days when even our hands do not stir are so exceptionally quiet that it is hardly possible to raise them without hearing a whole lot.” ...

April 27, 2020 · Mario Jason Braganza

Why Wait?

Help the folks, who need your help the most at this hour! Donate to Goonj to help our daily wage earners and labourers. “The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.” — W.M. Lewis P.S. Subscribe to my mailing list! Forward these posts and letters to your friends and get them to subscribe! P.P.S. Feed my insatiable reading habit. ...

April 20, 2020 · Mario Jason Braganza

On Bees

Help the folks, who need your help the most at this hour! Donate to Goonj to help our daily wage earners and labourers. click to embiggen “The lovely flowers embarrass me, They make me regret I am not a bee.” — Emily Dickinson ...

April 13, 2020 · Mario Jason Braganza

Get Lost to Find Yourself

Help the folks, who need your help the most at this hour! Donate to Goonj to help our daily wage earners and labourers. click to embiggen “We need to feel a little bit lost somewhere, physically or intellectually, at least once a day.” ...

April 6, 2020 · Mario Jason Braganza

Being Happy With Life

click to enlarge “All of life is about ending up somewhere you didn’t expect, and learning to just be happy with it.” — Lauren Oliver, Vanishing Girls P.S. Subscribe to my mailing list! Forward these posts and letters to your friends and get them to subscribe! P.P.S. Feed my insatiable reading habit. ...

March 30, 2020 · Mario Jason Braganza

Ryan Holiday’s Question to Change Your Reading Life

Ryan Holiday, writes about a question, he purports will change your reading life. And this was somehow surprising to me, because as a bookworm, I have been slipping this question (or a variant of it) into casual conversations with folks all my life. If I need my reading queue to be always full, I need to always be closing :) And since it has helped me so much, it’s only fair, I share it with you :) ...

March 23, 2020 · Mario Jason Braganza