By Sudanese-born prolific author Amr Muneer Dahab

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In “Wisdom Highway,” translated into English from the Arabic origin by the author himself, Sudanese-born poet and essayist Amr Muneer Dahab questions ideas that people accept as standard rules for living, aiming to make individual life paths easier to navigate rather than providing rigid success formulas. He uses short, witty statements to prompt deep thought ins. In this series of posts, the prolific author shares excerpts from the book.

Week 5: What Is Lying?

• In our judgments of values, we are usually motivated by the desire to exaggerate. Lying is nothing more than our inability to tell the truth.

• This world: Me.

• Simple is the difference between aspiration and a dream, one of which is fueled by sleep.

• The easiest job: A competent employee.

• Emptiness: Finding neither something to do or not to do.

• We should not exaggerate. Vice is nothing but the capacity in which the forces of virtue have collapsed.

• It is a trivial matter that it is OK to finish it so that you do not get busy with it. That looks like life.

• Upbringing: Choosing which mistakes you would rather like to see in your children.

• It won’t be a problem until it hurts you.

• This man is an angel because I don’t know his flaws yet.

• Repetition: The great excuse for passing the feasibility of survival.

• Virtual reality: What we live online. The greatest virtual reality: Life.

• Miracles: Other possibilities of reality that we think are impossible.

• Times of boredom: The period necessary to recharge the energy needed for happiness.

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Amr Muneer Dahab is a Sudanese-born passionate essayist, literary critic and poet. An electrical engineer living in the United Arab Emirates, he juggles his professional career and writing, which has birthed so far 50 books.