David Cerruti’s Reviews > The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down: How to Be Calm in a Busy World > Status Update

- - - We don’t think twice about spending nine or ten dollars on a glass of wine. And yet we hesitate when it comes to buying a book, which is the price of only one or two glasses of wine.

- - - “A mosquito has been in my room for the last two days, and it still hasn’t bitten me.
OK, let us live together. We must share our karmic affinity.”
(reader comment: Maybe your mosquito is a male. Only females bite.)

- - - Words of wisdom, on the path to mindfulness. An example: “What is the use of someone carrying a designer handbag, when her behavior lacks the same refinement?”