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HOW YOUR WOUNDED INNER CHILD CONTAMINATES YOUR LIFE (JOHN BRADSHAW)

The person … in the grip of an old distress says things that are not pertinent, does things that don’t work, fails to cope with...

10 February, 2020

The Hollow Men (excerpt) (T.S. ELIOT)

We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning together Headpiece filled with straw. Alas! Our dried voices, when We whisper together Are quiet and meaningless As wind...

05 February, 2020

Einstein’s equation E=mc2 (ROBERT L. WOLKE) 

Ξέρουμε ότι η εξίσωση  του Αϊνστάιν είναι τρομακτικά σημαντική, και ότι έχει κάποια σχέση με την ατομική βόμβα. Αλλά τι σημαίνει πραγματικά για εμάς,...

04 February, 2020

My mania for creating a false world is still with me (FERNANDO PESSOA)

That, and only that, has been the meaning of my existence. The only thing I’ve ever really cared about is my inner life. My greatest...

30 January, 2020

The Palace and the Fish Market (ALAN COHEN)

Grand theft identity began soon after you arrived on Earth. Parents, teachers, siblings, clergy, and authority figures told you that you are inept,...

27 January, 2020

And one starts feeling a great wonder: why have poets been writing so many beautiful things about love… (OSHO)

If you really love a person, you have to face it yourself. If you don’t face it, that is cowardice. And to hide it,...

25 January, 2020

JULIUS CAESAR: “The die is cast” (PHILIP BARLAG)

Caesar’s biggest bet-on-yourself moment, and one of the most audacious leadership moments of all time, came in 49 BC, when he was faced...

24 January, 2020

Indulging in solitude is certainly selfish, but I do not think it is egotistical. (DANIEL KLEIN)

Language has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word 'solitude' to express the...

23 January, 2020

“It is not by the value of possessions, but by our daily subsistence and tillage, that our riches are truly estimated.” (CICERO)

Amongst human conditions this is common enough: to be better pleased with foreign things than with our own, and to love innovation and...

22 January, 2020

The life of Plutarch

Plutarch, Greek Plutarchos, Latin Plutarchus, (born 46 CE, Chaeronea, Boeotia [Greece]—died after 119 CE), biographer and author whose works strongly influenced the evolution...

21 January, 2020