I recently stood with some friends in front of a painting by Lucas Cranach at Friedenstein Castle in Gotha, Germany....
It is said that we are all equal before God. Standing naked in the temple, we become aware of the...
A new flute was invented in China. A Japanese master, upon hearing the beauty of its sound, took the flute to Japan and played it all over the country. Once, after playing the flute in a small village, there was hushed silence and then the oldest man present said: “Like...
Robinson Crusoe befriends a ‹savage›. In the existentialism of his situation, he overcomes the cultural boundaries that would have made...
Angels always appear when people encounter border or boundary situations. […] At such moments they are most likely to be...
It’s the end of October. A huge emerald-green dragonfly is skimming across the garden pond again, having warmed itself back to mobility on my finger. Very slowly, its head had started to turn and my anticipation had steadily increased over what was about to awaken. A great force, an instinct,...
Ibrahim Abouleish stood under the expansive sun awning, and a thousand Egyptians sat with their forearms propped up on the...
The horizon is an earthly fact. It is the all-embracing perimeter. It always embraces the center, without which it cannot...
«Dos moi pou sto kai kino ten gae» – Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth. In his mathematical treatises, the Greek mathematician Pappus quotes Archimedes here. This is how the latter illustrates the law of the lever. With a fixed point and a long...
«Who is he up there?« ask visitors, pointing to the small winged creature that Rudolf Steiner recently placed at the...
Michael is on his way. He now understands that drug counseling doesn’t mean that, instead of the drugs, now I...
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