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HUMANS ARE THEIR ACTIONS (JEAN-PAUL SARTRE)

When we say, “You are nothing else than your life,” that does not imply that the artist will be judged solely on the...

27 November, 2022

I have a pain (TERRY EAGLETON)

In a work like Philosophical Investigations, Wittgenstein was alert to the difference between real questions and phoney ones. A piece of language can have...

26 November, 2022

Do you just have to be patient? (IDRIES SHAH)

Once upon a time there was a bird which did not have the power of flight. Like a chicken, he walked about on the ground,...

25 November, 2022

WAKING UP (IRVIN D. YALOM)

At some point in life—sometimes in youth, sometimes late—each of us is due to awaken to our mortality. There are so many triggers:...

24 November, 2022

Invisible Blue: The Color That Ancient People Could Not See

The story of “blue being invisible in history” begins in 1858 when William Gladstone, who later became Chancellor of the Exchequer then Prime...

23 November, 2022

Congratulations! You succeeded… However, what did you succeed in? (OSHO)

You succeeded - and I have said again and again that nothing fails like success. You have reached a place that you wanted to...

22 November, 2022

‘Master, there is only one thing wrong with you: you think too much. You come with me.’

One day Zorba says to his master—which is Kazantzakis himself—‘Master, there is only one thing wrong with you: you think too much. You...

21 November, 2022

He returned to his hiding place every day to drink the clean water (IDRIS SACH)

Once upon a time Khidr, the teacher of Moses, called upon mankind with a war- ing. At a certain date. he said, all...

20 November, 2022

The Boiled Frog Syndrome… (OLIVIER CLERC)

This fable tells the story of how a frog placed in a pot of boiling water is able to make a leap and...

19 November, 2022

The difference is not in possessions, the difference is in possessiveness. (OSHO)

A king was very much impressed by the simple and innocent life of a Buddhist monk. Slowly slowly he accepted him as his...

18 November, 2022