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Is motion an illusion? (JIM AL-KHALILI)

The Dichotomy is the next of Zeno’s paradoxes and it is very simple to state: In order to reach your destination you must first...

17 February, 2022

We need to understand our desires, not trying to get rid of them. (JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI)

Questioner: What is the origin of desire, and how can I get rid of it? Krishnamurti: It is a young man who is asking...

16 February, 2022

Horace’s Odes – Β΄-10

RECTIUS VIVES   You will live better, Licinius, by neither always pressing the deep nor, while you carefully dread storms, by excessively pressing the treacherous shore.   Whoever values a...

15 February, 2022

To some he said, “You are a lion, not a sheep”… (OSHO)

George Gurdjieff used to tell a story: A magician deep in the mountains had many sheep, and to avoid servants and to avoid looking...

14 February, 2022

Happiness does not come when you are striving for it (JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI)

When you comb your hair, when you put on clean clothes and make yourself look nice, that is all part of your desire...

14 February, 2022

Hell would become overpopulated in a hurry – and it is, right here on earth.  (LOU MARINOFF)

DOORWAY TO HEAVEN Imagine a prisoner in a cell with heavy bars, in a prison with high walls, with armed guards everywhere. But this...

13 February, 2022

I trust someone means I believe in their worth as a human being (ICHIRO KISHIMI & FUMITAKE KOGA)

Trust” is believing in the other party with conditions. For example, when one borrows money from a bank. It goes without saying that the bank...

12 February, 2022

“You are a citizen of Sparta: see you make the most of her.” [(Euripides) PLUTARCH]

On Tranquillity of Mind This likewise greatly obstructs the tranquillity of the mind, that our desires are immoderate and not suited to our abilities...

11 February, 2022

There is no school for living, and a dearth of teachers of life (LEO BUSCAGLIA)

Except for some rather vague, broad and nebulous guidelines, none of us is ever taught how to live. We are not told the...

10 February, 2022

” Homo homini lupus”, man is a wolf to another man (A. SCHOPENHAUER)

The truth is, we ought to be wretched, and we are so. The chief source of the serious evils which affect men is...

09 February, 2022