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My Mother

The hours I spent with my mother were full of mystery; we sat opposite each other, she on a chair beside the window,...

01 July, 2021

The only thing that matters is how you played the game (OSHO)

The winner sows hatred because the loser suffers. Let go of winning and losing and find joy. How to find joy? Let your ambition disappear;...

01 July, 2021

Beyond resilience: antifragility. (HECTOR GARCIA και FRANCESC MIRALLES)

As the legend goes, the first time Hercules faced the Hydra, he despaired when he discovered that cutting off one of its heads...

30 June, 2021

So Robin needs to think about what long-term virtues he is trying to protect through his short-term acts in desperate times. (LOU MARINOFF)

Virtue ethics’ weaknesses are twofold. At one extreme, in Asia, the Confucian emphasis on family as the building block of community, society, and polity...

29 June, 2021

In a mother’s womb were two babies … (PABLO J. LUIS MOLINERO)

In a mother’s womb were two babies. One asked the other: “Do you believe in life after delivery?” The other replied, “Why, of...

28 June, 2021

This ignorance is beautiful, but it is attained through knowledge. (OSHO)

When you have gathered enough knowledge and you throw it, then ignorance is attained. Then you really become ignorant - like Socrates who can...

26 June, 2021

These are the things we your friends ask of you, these become you, for these you are designed by nature [(Homer) PLUTARCH]

But since "neither," to use the words of Euripides, "do all troubles proceed only from old age," nor from the stupidity of our friends,...

25 June, 2021

LETTER TO MY YOUNGER SELF (MAYA ANGELOU)

Dear Marguerite, You’re itching to be on your own. You don’t want anybody telling you what time you have to be in at night...

24 June, 2021

The “cycles” of growth and recession of the economies of Western nations. (ALAIN DE BOTTON)

The history of the economies of Western nations has, since the early nineteenth century, been one of repeated cycles of growth and recession....

23 June, 2021

It’s stupid to show that you are intelligent (ROBERT MUSIL)

! If one investigates this question of why making a show of being clever should be considered stupid, the first answer that comes to...

22 June, 2021