and the precious lessons I learned from it.
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I learnt this from a book of Julia Cameron. She compares art with pearl. Do you know how pearl is created? It is created out of a disturbance: a grain of sand, for example, finds its way inside an oyster’s shell. To protect itself, the oyster releases a substance to cover that grain of sand. That’s how pearl is made. The beautiful pearl is art; the act of transforming pain to beauty is a greater art. That’s the big art of our life.
Read MoreI finally began to enjoy the wind in my hair, the moist fog, the cycling motions and the repeating sounds of the turning wheels. All of a sudden, the sky and street spun upside down and the next thing I knew: I was lying on the ground.
Read MoreWe all have met people who seems to never stop whining. Their lives are like Korean soap opera. There is something alluring about pain. It may sound absurd at first. Who likes pain? But this is an insanely common tendency of the human mind.
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