Lamp - Marko Pavliha

He admits that in his life he has fallen into the depths of alcohol and the heights of an inflated ego. With the consent of his wife Ester, he repeats how she awakened him to coexistence and honesty, and also describes his withdrawal from the political arena.

''After dynamic life trials, harmful environmental influences, innate characteristics, falls and psychophysical injuries, I had two alternatives: to surrender to fate, lose everything and perish, or to start picking myself up and improving myself. I chose the second path, which is why I am still among you, happy as never before.''Marko Pavliha 

As a boy, he introduced himself as Mato Lita, fell off a wooden horse and broke his forehead, climbed Triglav at the age of six, wrote poems and free writings, survived a rat bite and an attack by a witch and ran away from home. The love of his life found him, he completed his doctorate in wartime conditions, and was awarded an honorary doctorate at the age of 60. After a long process, he got rid of alcoholism, overcame the burns of the political baptism of fire in Brussels and had a few more surgeries to top it off... In short, he was never bored, not even by the people around him.

''If falling is normal, getting back up is phenomenal - and that's the whole difference between more or less successful and happy people.'' Marko Pavliha

Marko Pavliha, who also bursts with sparkling insight in his live performances, reminds us in the book of an old Hindu proverb that he writes: ''As the mind, so is the person. And the mind, which is reflected in his skillfully crafted words, is distinguished by his flinty actions; with them, he will certainly be a bright support for many in these stormy times. This is the Lighthouse.''

And for him, as he says, the most important beacon of all is always love.

''The truth is that in this book Marko Pavliha is surprisingly painfully self-confessed. And in love with his 'Madonna', as the love lyricist says.''Tone Partljič