THE INTEREST WITHOUT THE CAPITAL "The lover's food is the love of the bread; no bread need be at hand: no one who is sincere in his love is a slave to existence. Lovers have nothing to do with existence;

"Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure." --- Rumi

Malaysia has long had some of the harshest drug laws on the planet - the death penalty. When I was young I can remember the pilots always informing passengers that drug smugglers would be executed as we

"Though spiritual truth is inscrutable, still we all benefit from it through the embodiment of form. Just as you see the changes brought by the stars, moon and sun turning in the sky, the rain from

I lived in Malaysia's capital city as a child and was always fascinated by the name. It's such an odd sounding name and unlike most capital cities it has two words in it instead of one. I always wondered

The ranks of our politicians and civil servants are riddled with pedophiles and have been for a long time. When I say "rank" I do mean "rank!" How can this be and why has it come to

"Be courageous and discipline yourself. Work. Keep digging your well. Don't think about getting off from work. Submit to a daily practice. Your loyalty to that is a ring on the door. Keep knocking,

"Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free." --- Rumi

Cerberus was the hound of Hades in Greek mythology. Why would you name your business after this scary beast? The name stands out for its incredible oddness but perhaps an analysis of what kind of work

"Come, seek for search is the foundation of every fortune: every success depends on focusing on the heart" --- Rumi

The most ancient literal references in the western literature we have concerning Cannabis are from Herodotus. As Cannabis is being legalized around the world it behooves us to look back to the most ancient

I saw this sign and had to make a post about it. It is so Malaysian! Malaysian's love their newspapers and always have. Reading the newspaper is more prominent in Malaysia than anywhere else I have been

As I write this there is a python loose and hiding somewhere in this apartment! We made the ghastly discovery today when we saw that the ball python had escaped her enclosure. This is not my pet rather

"Here in my chest a Star came out so clear it drew all Stars into it." --- Rumi

"A pearl in the shell does not touch the ocean. Be a pearl without a shell, a mindful flooding, candle turned moth, love lived." --- Rumi

"Worry about the others, who give you delicious comforts that keep you from prayer. Friends are enemies sometimes, and enemies friends." --- Rumi

I spoke to a career pilot with decades of flight experience about the 9/11 attacks and asked if the planes could have been flown in the manner we were told. This contact of mine is an old and dear friend

"The intellect is luminous and seeks justice so why does the dark ego prevail over it? Because the ego is at home in the body while the intellect is only a visitor, the ego-dog at his own door is

".....every form puts a limit on mystery" --- Rumi

Australia's ABC news agency just announced that a computer running AI has created a flu vaccine which is to be trialed in the US. That's totally wild and almost sounds insane to me given what I know about