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The steps of crisis that a family faces (VIRGINIA SATIR)

I would like to describe the major, natural steps a family undergoes at its members grow. All of these steps mean crisis and...

11 December, 2020

It takes time to learn to be laid-back (DALAI LAMA, DESMOND TUTU, DOUGLAS ABRAMS)

Dalai Lama: When a fear or frustration comes, we have to think, what is causing it? In most cases, fear is simply a...

10 December, 2020

Intelligent people cooperate whereas silly people compete (KISHIMI ICHIRO & KOGA FUMITAKE) | Part B’

YOUTH: All right. The points of conflict are clear. You are saying that it is not a problem of the individual, but of the whole classroom—the principle of competition permeating the classroom is the root of all evil. I, on the other...

09 December, 2020

Intelligent people cooperate whereas silly people compete (KISHIMI ICHIRO & KOGA FUMITAKE) | Part A’

PHILOSOPHER: There is no contradiction or anything of the sort. Try to think of life as a kind of marathon. There are rivals running beside you. As this itself may act as a stimulus and feel reassuring, it does...

08 December, 2020

No one will bring back the years (SENECA)

Yet no one will bring back the years, no one will bestow you once more on yourself. Life will follow the path it...

07 December, 2020

The infamous episode between Socrates and Xanthippe that the whole of Athens was talking about … (PHILIP MATYSZAK)

Xanthippe is recalling her recent dinner – a meal that became the talk of Athens. Socrates had spontaneously invited a group of friends to...

06 December, 2020

Independence (EPICURUS 131-132)

We regard independence of outward things as a great good, not so as in all cases to use little, but so as to...

05 December, 2020

Being deprived of hope is not despairing (ALBERT CAMUS)

Let me repeat that these images do not propose moral codes and involve no judgments: they are sketches. They merely represent a style...

04 December, 2020

To the administrator of the free cities who was an Epicurean (DANIEL KLEIN)

When the administrator came to visit him, and the man was an Epicurean, Epictetus said, It is proper for us who are not philosophers...

03 December, 2020

Whatsoever is done with your body reaches to the mind and whatsoever is done with the mind reaches to the body (OSHO)

Your body is not simply physical. In your body in your muscles in the structure of your body, many other things have entered...

02 December, 2020