Cheap and Easy Epiphanies For All

Things I've realized as a result of the Mystery of Pico Iyer:

1) This is taken straight from Iyer's The Lady and the Monk: you cannot find what you are looking for, if you are looking for it. But if you do not look for it, it will surely find you.

2) You can hire a psychic. You can have an awesome plan. You can follow your gut instincts. Life will gladly let slip a glimpse of your destiny - and then take you by surprise anyway.

3) Life is only as strange and wonderful and exciting as you are brave.

4) Things that appear to have no extrinsic meaning - a random book, the yoga class you wandered into because you were bored, the punk rock concert - often turn out to be the most meaningful of all. Because of this, you must treat your whims as seriously as your most heartfelt dreams. They are often the same thing.