The law of attraction tells us that you bring into your life that which you put your attention on. The secret to life is to put your attention on what serves you and take your attention away from what does not serve you.
Does your spiritual growth come from the television? Does television spew forth spirituality [...]
11
Jun
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16
Apr
Seoul;s booming luxury hotel market is being driven less by international visitors than by the city;s 10 million technology-savvy residents. Many Koreans live in small apartments with extended family, so inner-city weekends away are highly appealing.
To meet the demand, the five-star hotel chains, known here as super-deluxe, have colonised the city in the past few [...]
8
Apr
How very distressing to read about the current financial situation at the Maryland Zoo in Baltimore (”Lack of cash, creativity lead to zoo’s decay,” March 30).
I’m a frequent visitor, and it is apparent to me that each year the zoo is suffering. The tigers are gone, the prairie dogs are gone, the hippos are gone, [...]
6
Apr
Ski or snowboard it up and then tee it up.
Hidden Valley and Seven Springs are offering snow sports and golf at reduced rates today and tomorrow. Guests can hit the slopes in the morning and the links in the afternoon
Lift tickets at Hidden Valley are $15 for adults and children. Seven Springs is charging $35 [...]
31
Mar
You’d think that after so many run-ins with rejection, I’d have grown a thicker skin by now.
In the beginning, every fledgling writer falls madly in love with his work. How could a reader not swoon over this turn of phrase or that plot twist? Never mind gratuitous clichés, the young writer rushes into a story [...]
21
Mar
In 1988, a little-known writer called Orhan Pamuk was struggling to complete The Black Book, his fourth and most ambitious novel to date. “As the writing progressedâ€, Pamuk remembers in Other Colours, his new collection of essays and stories, “and the book grew broader, the pleasure of writing it grew deeper.†This was small consolation, [...]
21
Mar
The dilemmas parents place on their children may be unintentional, but they gnaw away the child’s conscience and torment him even in ripe old age. Dmitri Nabokov is the septuagenarian son of Vladimir, the lepidopterist and writer, who left him with note cards which form the basis of a novel called The Original of Laura. [...]
21
Mar
It is a moment famous in Chinese literature: a crowd of Chinese watch passively as a young patriot is led to his execution. Written by Lu Xun in the 1920s, this scene comes from A Call to Arms, a literary wake-up call to throw off the limitations of traditional culture. Perhaps as famous now, at [...]
28
Feb
All I knew about Potsdam in Germany was that some historic post-Second World War treaty had been signed there - Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt carving up postwar Europe.
I knew rather more about Prague - reputedly one of Europe’s most beautiful cities - although I’d never visited. But it had been on my wish list forever. [...]
24
Feb
ABOARD THE QUEEN VICTORIA — The stock market ricocheted and U.S. presidential candidates bared their knuckles, but aboard Cunard’s newest ship, Queen Victoria, in the southern Caribbean, this was water off a duck’s back. In fact, except for the daily “programme” (this is a British ship), which announced the day’s activities, it would have been [...]
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