She took over my treatment. She tied a coloured string round the big toe of my left foot. Then she began to chant Guru Arjun’s hymn Sukhmani. It went on all day and late into the night. She slept in the same room and began the chant again
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“After all, what can a first impression tell us about someone we’ve just met for a minute in the lobby of a hotel? For that matter, what can a first impression tell us about anyone? Why, no more than a chord can tell us about Beethoven, or a brushstroke about Botticelli. By their very nature, human beings are so capricious, so complex, so delightfully contradictory, that they deserve not only our consideration, but our reconsideration—and our unwavering determination to withhold our opinion until we have engaged with them in every possible setting at every possible hour.”
― A Gentleman in Moscow
― A Gentleman in Moscow

“if a man does not master his circumstances then he is bound to be mastered by them.”
― A Gentleman in Moscow
― A Gentleman in Moscow
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