The Observer Quotes

“The mind is a drama queen that gets too embarrassed to continue acting up, after only a few seconds of getting our undivided attention.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Meditation is generally an alternation between the feeling of bliss and the witnessing of a thought having a problem with the having of thoughts.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“So when, in 1985, Donald Trelford as editor of The Observer did me the honour of offering me a weekly column of opinion, I went cheerfully to that private store and began to unpack it. A horrible discovery ensued. Many of the sealed boxes proved to be empty. Others contained disagreeable spiders or mental fragments decayed to illegibility. The fact was that I had largely forgotten what my own views were, or - where I could retrieve them - sometimes could not imagine why I had ever entertained them.”
― Neal Ascherson, Games with Shadows