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A blind beggar and a crippled beggar (OSHO)

You know the story of a blind beggar and a crippled beggar...

08 February, 2022

Relativism. Is beauty in the eye of the beholder? (BEN DUPRE)

Doubtless the most familiar question in the field of aesthetics is whether aesthetic values such as beauty are ‘real’ – inherent, objective –...

07 February, 2022

Love is the food of the soul. But you have been starved. (OSHO)

WHAT IS LOVE? It is unfortunate that we have to ask this question. In the natural course of things everybody would know what love-is. But...

06 February, 2022

Julius Caesar: betrayal and surprise after the murder (PHILIP BARLAG)

It was 44 BC. Caesar had come an extraordinary way. He had rebuilt his family’s fortunes and cemented his personal legacy in the...

05 February, 2022

The Riddle of the Missing Dollar (JIM AL-KHALILI)

Three travelers check into a hotel for the night. The young man at the reception desk charges them $30 for a room with...

03 February, 2022

Unless you are finished with the past you are living a ghost life (OSHO)

You need space; the past is so much inside -- a junkyard of dead things. There is no space for the present to...

02 February, 2022

Question: Why am I never satisfied with anything? (JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI)

Question: Why am I never satisfied with anything? Krishnamurti: A little girl is asking this question, and I am sure she has not been...

01 February, 2022

But while I was in Rome, I gained a better grasp of the meaning of guilt from another image, a timeless painting in a museum. (GIOVANNI FRAZZETTO)

A restless genius From Piazza del Popolo, I climbed the many steps of the Pincian Hill. Before my trip to Rome, a sculptor friend...

31 January, 2022

The Monogram (ODYSSEAS ELYTIS)

III. So I talk about you and me Because I love you and in the love I know To enter like a Full Moon From everywhere,like your...

30 January, 2022

CONCEIT: That is, could it be that the very thing you think is the source of your happiness is the cause of your misery? (JOHN IZZO)

At some level we know that the more we focus on the self and our small, singular story, the more lost we can...

29 January, 2022