We all love Grumpy Cat. Not just because she is a feline with an amusing frown and scowl. Nor because her response to everything seems so irredeemably – if humorously – grouchy. I suspect we also love her because we recognise that there is a little bit of Grumpy Cat in us all. She is...
Author: David Michie (David Michie)
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How meditation helps create ideas that resonate
As every creative person knows, coming up with fresh ideas is often not the challenge. The challenge is coming up with fresh ideas that resonate. Whether you wish to be taken seriously by the literary elite, sell truckloads of paintings to hotel decorators, or have your sculpture find a permanent home on a...
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Mindfulness and the Creative Process – Perth Seminar with David Michie!
Do you often start creative projects but can’t seem to follow them through? Are you frustrated by the results of your creative efforts to date? Do you know you could do more with your creativity but aren’t sure where to start? Would you benefit from a creative kick-start? David Michie is the internationally best-selling...
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Exciting news: The Dalai Lama’s Cat Movie
I am thrilled to let all my enthusiastic supporters around the world know that work has begun on The Dalai Lama’s Cat Movie! It is especially wonderful that seasoned movie producer, Ileen Maisel, has optioned the book and is driving the project. Ileen’s stellar line-up of films includes such hits as Dangerous Liaisons, Romeo and...
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What does The Power of Meow really mean?
I am sometimes asked by some readers to explain the meaning behind the title of my third Dalai Lama’s Cat book, The Power of Meow. Just as the second title, The Art of Purring is a play on The Art of Happiness – a book closely associated with His Holiness – this third title is a similarly...
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Prague launch of ‘The Magician of Lhasa’
Earlier this month, Robert Gajdos and the team at Synergie Publishing hosted the launch of my novel The Magician of Lhasa in Prague, Czech Republic. Launch activities included a signing at Neoluxor Books – a very large bookshop in Wenceslas Square – and a separate media launch. Two Czech TV and theatre stars, Ivana Jiresova...
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Read the Prologue and Chapter One of ‘The Power of Meow’
Prologue I am ashamed to have to begin this book with a confession. A revelation so embarrassing I’d much rather not be making it. Living with the Dalai Lama, surrounded by monks at Namgyal Monastery, and constantly encountering the most revered meditation masters in Tibetan Buddhism, one would assume that among my many admirable qualities...
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Suffer from mental fleas when you meditate? 4 points to encourage you from The Dalai Lama’s Cat.
In my book, The Power of Meow, the Dalai Lama’s Cat begins with an embarrassing confession: “Living with the Dalai Lama, surrounded by monks at Namgyal Monastery, and constantly encountering the most revered meditation masters in Tibetan Buddhism, one would assume that among my many admirable qualities I am an accomplished meditator. Alas, dear reader, I...
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Pets as partners on our spiritual journey – Buddhist wisdom
Buddhism is well-known as a tradition of inner transformation. But great practitioners down the ages have also emphasized that freeing ourselves from suffering depends on others. Progress in our inner development goes hand and hand with our outward behaviour. It is no coincidence that of the six perfections taught by Buddha, we practise the first...
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Win one of 25 FREE copies of ‘The Dalai Lama’s Cat and The Power of Meow’!
To celebrate the launch of third book in The Dalai Lama’s Cat series, I am delighted to announce a 25 book give-away of ‘The Power of Meow‘! My publishers at Hay House are kindly offering 5 free books in each of the following territories: USA and Canada UK Australia and New Zealand India South Africa...
