Column Chronicles: Advanced advice from the Dalai Wally

Advanced advice from the Dalai Wally

Frank Cotolo
April 2, 2026

We continue to offer readers advanced exclusive advice for your life from the great secluded sage, the Dalai Wally.

Once you go somewhere it is where you exist at that moment.

Know the rules as they are written but break those which are merely spoken, no less whispered.

Sometimes a person issues a dynamic impression, usually in words, and other times a person is significant by remaining silent. The ones who shut up make the most sense.

The ones you love are those loved most and the loved ones loved most are those you love.

A goal to be better than the other person is only righteous when the other person stinks on ice.

The true hero is one a person giving to another that which the true hero needs. But a true hero offering another true hero heroics is up to no good.

Sometimes no matter how hard you try you cannot make a difference in what you attempt to try hard about. Other times you try not to do anthing about something and it turn out better for it. Then there's the impossible which try as you will makes a dumb ass out of all. (Dalais are exceptions, of course).

Love not if you judge. Love only if you share. Do not judge sharing if it brings love and love sharing when you judge sharing because of love. Also, be kind to stray dogs.

I do not propose to you that my way is best but do not follow the advice of the lyrics in that terrible Paul Anka's song.

What is yours is yours and what is mine is mine. Yet yours can be mine and mine can be yours. But once you give me yours it is mine no matter how much you want it back.

Frank Cotolo can be found hosting the talk and interview programme Cotolo Chronicles. You can send him an e-mail at this address: frank@148.ca.