What helps us respond to life as it unfolds? To live freely, stay humble and find comfort in difficult times? Lasīt labu grāmatu ir tāpat kā doties ceļojumā- tu izkāp nezināmajā, ļaujoties iespaidiem un piedzīvojumiem." (7.lpp.) The Sunday Times bestselling book of comfort and timeless wisdom from former forest monk, Bj örn Natthiko Lindeblad Is “I could be wrong” a common appropriate phrase? If yes, when I should use “I may be wrong” and “I could be wrong”.

I found the chapter called ‘It starts with you’ particularly effective. Being compassionate towards ourselves is something we find hard to do. I know I do, and the below resonated with me. I often pass the ruins of a monastery when I’m out for a walk, and I wonder what it would have been like to live there four or five hundred years ago. Spending your days serving others and seeking your own spiritual salvation. I've sometimes wondered what it would be like to join a Buddhist monastery but the closest I ever got was going on a silent ten-day meditation retreat in an old boarding school in Kells, Co Meath. I enjoyed it, and it left me feeling renewed, but I didn't experience what I’d describe as a calling. Forest MonkI was never promised a long life. We, humans, are like leaves on trees in that respect. Most leaves hold on until they're withered and brown. But some fall while they’re still green.’ Svarīgākais, ko esmu ieguvis septiņpadsmit gadus ilgajā garīgajā treniņā, ir atskārsme, ka vairs neticu visam, ko domāju. Tas ir mans superspēks." Andra halvan är sämre, när författaren fokuserar sin egen individ, sin sjukdom och eutanasi, (det som var med i sommarpratet). Den delen får mig att tänka att det han kanske egentligen varit på jakt efter hela tiden var kärleken, och det jag tagit till mig från bokens första halva tappar lite av sin mening. We like to think we understand what's happening around us; that we can determine the path our life takes. But often, things don't go that way - in fact, they rarely do. the song is most definitely a direct reference to advaita vedanta hinduism and buddhism, and many other forms of hinduism/eastern religions.

He didn’t sugarcoat his own struggles in becoming a forest monk, no. When he told the readers his struggles of meditating and understanding different walks of lives that he has encountered, I thought that it was very well explained and explored. I’ve often wondered what it’s like to get 'the call’ - the desire to drop everything and take up a spiritual vocation. I have a cousin who did get the call to be a priest when he had already finished training to be an accountant. At the time I thought it might have been nice if he’d been asked before all those years of studying, but I appreciate it doesn’t work like that. The narrative is structured loosely as the chronological journey of a Swedish man’s journey from the point he abandons a conventional, middle-class life as a budding economist and becomes a forest monk in Thailand. After nearly 20 years of living as a monk, Bjorn leaves the more formalised life of his Buddhist practice but he continues to share what he has learned through lectures and guided meditations. His life has two unexpected twists: one is marriage, after two decades of celibacy; the other is a diagnosis of ALS and his premature death in his late 50s. His experience of dealing with bodily decline and death - and not just his own, but crucially his own - were particularly helpful and worth focusing on. Thom's not the type to usually write about love songs, and especially with the way this song is written and the way he sings the song, I don't think it is a love song. It's one of the more sardonic/sarcastic sounding songs of Radiohead's, and I think it's not about a relationship with a girl...but maybe with God, aka about religion/theism.

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Izņemot melnbaltos vākos ieskauto grāmatu no plaukta, zemē nokrīt pastkarte ar ierakstu "Ja tu lasi šo, mans laiks ir beidzies."... Tas viss liekas tik sirreāli, gluži kā aizkapa vēstījums no paša autora. Tik savādi apzināties, ka persona, kuras grāmatu es turu rokās, ir izvēlējusies aiziet no dzīves. Jā, daudzi autori ir viņsaulē, bet reti kurš iepriekš lasītājam atstāj ziņu. In ‘I may be wrong’ Björn Natthiko Lindeblad does exactly that. After working as an economist, he gives up his promising career to spend 17 years as a forest monk in Thailand and in this book shares what he has learnt in that time. There’s plenty of humour in the initial stages as he talks about the problems he faces as a monk - he doesn’t take himself too seriously. The title itself is based on a talk given by one of his teachers when he told the class he was going to give them a mantra. He said the next time you felt an argument starting, or a conflict brewing, repeat to yourself three times the magic words: What helps us to live freely? How can we find comfort in difficult times? Is there a way to stay humble in the heat of the moment? And what stands out as most important when things are coming to an end?