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...
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...
Questioner: What is the origin of desire, and how can I get rid of it? Krishnamurti: It is a young man who is asking...
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...
George Gurdjieff used to tell a story: A magician deep in the mountains had many sheep, and to avoid servants and to avoid looking...
When you comb your hair, when you put on clean clothes and make yourself look nice, that is all part of your desire...
DOORWAY TO HEAVEN Imagine a prisoner in a cell with heavy bars, in a prison with high walls, with armed guards everywhere. But this...
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...
On Tranquillity of Mind This likewise greatly obstructs the tranquillity of the mind, that our desires are immoderate and not suited to our abilities...
Except for some rather vague, broad and nebulous guidelines, none of us is ever taught how to live. We are not told the...
The truth is, we ought to be wretched, and we are so. The chief source of the serious evils which affect men is...