“Nothing can have a goal that it doesn’t already have as its origin,” wrote the philosopher and mystic Simone Weil....
The effort for spiritual development should not only lead to more insights. A comprehensive understanding of truth also aims at...
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,...
Just after the sun sets, the two brightest planets, Jupiter and Venus, can be seen shining in the western sky...
A new flute was invented in China. A Japanese master, upon hearing the beauty of its sound, took the flute...
In 1961, the astrophysicist Francis Drake came up with the equation later named after him, with which one should be able to calculate how much intelligent life there would be in our Milky Way. He ranked seven factors, from the formation rate of new stars to the estimated probability of...
Growth in knowledge enables us to perceive the weaknesses of other people much more clearly than before and, depending on...
Older Christian tradition considered human beings to be connected to the world in two ways. As ‹creatures of nature›, human...
The atmosphere in the room was uncomfortable and charged with tension. People weren’t looking at each other, but were watching each other. There was suspicion and caution in the air. Or also: The mood was exuberant. The atmosphere was warm and open. People smiled and waved to each other. Everyone...
If someone walked day and night for a whole year, they could walk around the Earth. This idea has been...
And these are not things to be ashamed of; they are deeply human. They are a kind of “human condition,”...
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