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Do whatsoever you like, but do it with full awareness (OSHO)

There was one great master, a Buddhist master, Nagarjuna. A thief came to him. The thief had fallen in love with the master because...

11 August, 2021

Small-brained animals, such as sharks, certainly can hurt others, but they do so without the slightest idea of what others may feel… (FRANS DE WAAL)

The possibility that empathy is part of our primate heritage ought to make us happy, but we're not in the habit of embracing...

09 August, 2021

But it is the cruel fate of talkative people to desire hearers but not to get them (PLUTARCH)

ON TALKATIVENESS If however it seems that no attempt at cure has been left untried, let us say to the talkative person, "Be silent, boy;...

08 August, 2021

When the title of nobility is not shown-off… (ALAIN DE BOTTON)

One foggy evening in Paris at the end of the nineteenth century, the bourgeois narrator of Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time...

07 August, 2021

Are you sure what you see is really what you see and not something else? (ROBERT DODSLEY)

A fisherman in the month of May stood angling on the bank of the Thames with an artificial fly. He threw his bait...

06 August, 2021

Don’t ask. In asking you will miss much that is already available to you. (OSHO)

Somebody is asking for money, somebody is asking for bread, somebody is asking for approval. All are beggars. Don’t ask. In asking you...

05 August, 2021

A Dream Within a Dream (EDGAR ALLAN POΕ)

(Imitation - “A Dream within a Dream, 1827) TAKE this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow — You...

04 August, 2021

Baruch Spinoza: Life And Character (ROGER SCRUTON)

Benedict (Baruch) de Spinoza (1632-77) was born, lived and died in Holland, where his family, who were Jews from Portugal, had come as...

03 August, 2021

Rumors say that gentleman is deceived by his wife… (GUY DE MAUPASSANT) | Part B’

When he left this man he began to think things over again. He felt in his soul a strange confusion of contradictory ideas,...

02 August, 2021

Rumors say that gentleman is deceived by his wife… (GUY DE MAUPASSANT) | Part A’

The Bondels were a happy family, and although they frequently quarrelled about trifles, they soon became friends again. Bondel was a merchant who had...

01 August, 2021