Our life begins in pain and often ends in it. Pain is a faithful companion. It takes hold of our...
“I made it for you!” my little three-year-old friend says shyly. Delighted, I stoop down to her level, and we...
Growth in knowledge enables us to perceive the weaknesses of other people much more clearly than before and, depending on our temperament, to address or possibly criticize them. This touches on the problematic side of knowledge, cognition, and thinking. When we see something clearly, when we “know,” there is always...
Malcolm Gladwell puts the story at the beginning of his book ‹Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking›: In 1983,...
We, the living, are always present for the deceased. We should never forget that. Their world encompasses ours; our world...
What can philosophy do about uncertainty? This is what two journalists of the ‹NZZ› asked Peter Sloterdijk a few years ago. The philosopher replied that a story had to be told in which the insecure could find themselves. This narrative must reach as far as the French Revolution because, since...
Summer 2020, I was on a chapel tour with an architect friend. We finally reached Dornach via Cologne, the Eifel...
“The traffic light is green!” says the passenger to the driver. Friedemann Schulz von Thun uses this example in his...
Karma is about shifting responsibility from heaven to yourself. In this, you become the very maker of your own destiny. Sadhguru Karma gives freedom! This is the first and most intimate message I learned from Sadhguru, who became world-famous with his Isha Foundation. In many other contexts, I have heard...
During my Easter visit to Potsdam, I met I., a young mother and sales manager from Odesa in Ukraine. Her...
For this piece to be creative, I have to throw it into the unknown. So, I don’t know where my...
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