The Monk and the Riddle: The Art of Creating a Life While Making a Living

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“The Monk and the Riddle is a reminder that we do not need to sacrifice our lives to make a living. Komisar offers a long-overdue antidote to today's cash-in—cash-out mentality.”

—Stewart Alsop, Columnist, Fortune

“This book makes you laugh. It makes you want to cry. But most important, it makes you stop and think.”

—Bruce Judson, Author, HyperWars and Net Marketing

“Mentor, guide, chief strategist and even spiritual adviser … For Komisar, perfecting the role of virtual CEO has been an opportunity to pare leadership to its essence.”

—San Jose Mercury News

“[Komisar is] part sensitive coach, part tough-talking businessman.”

—Business 2.0

THE MONK

AND THE

RIDDLE

THE MONK

AND THE

RIDDLE

THE ART OF

CREATING A LIFE WHILE

MAKING A LIVING

RANDY KOMISAR

WITH KENT LINEBACK

For D2 and T2

Every moment some form grows perfect in hand or face; some tone on the hills or the sea is choicer than the rest; some mood of passion or insight or intellectual excitement is irresistibly real and attractive to us—for that moment only. Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end. A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to be seen in them by the finest senses? How shall we pass most swiftly from point to point, and be present always at the focus where the greatest number of vital forces unite in their purest energy? To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.

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