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THE BIRDS, THE BEASTS, AND THE BAT (AESOP)

The Birds and the Beasts declared war against each other. No compromise was possible, and so they went at it tooth and claw....

19 May, 2019

The Treasures Inside Notre Dame Cathedral

Paris’s Notre Dame cathedral took more than 200 years to build and just a few hours to burn. The structure’s construction began in...

23 April, 2019

Beyond good and evil (FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE)

Because solitude is a virtue for us To live with immense and proud composure; always beyond –. To freely have or not have your affects,...

14 April, 2019

Why me? Everybody seems to be so happy (OSHO)

There is an ancient Sufi story: A man was very much burdened by his suffering. He used to pray every day to God, “Why...

09 April, 2019

… You Must Give Up the Hope for a Better Past (IRVIN D. YALOM) | Part B’

“Well, here are the first lines of a poem I don’t recall at all. It’s dated 1980.” To want words Is not hunger But disease Dis ease A...

28 March, 2019

… You Must Give Up the Hope for a Better Past (IRVIN D. YALOM) | Part A’

I want this to be different from our last consultation. This time I want a complete overhaul. My sixtieth birthday is approaching, and...

27 March, 2019

The impossible miracle is to be just ordinary (OSHO)

Bankei was preaching quietly to his followers one day when his talking was interrupted by a priest from another sect. This sect believed...

22 March, 2019

Ode on Solitude (ALEXANDER POPE)

Happy the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground. Whose herds with milk, whose...

08 March, 2019

The war is nothing by comparison, it is a tiny affair… (OSHO)

A sannyasin told Osho that he had been being intimate with different women, and wondered if he should continue to do that. There is nothing...

03 March, 2019

Our dispositions are so prone to upbraidings and to be tainted with envy, that the grief we conceive at others’ prosperity lessens the joy we ought to take in our own. (PLUTARCH) | Part B’

Besides, this is a thing highly conducing to the tranquillity of the mind, for a man chiefly to consider himself and his own...

02 March, 2019