According to Herbert Salzmann, the oldest form of cooperation brings the pyramid into view: someone says where to go. The clown Nögge caricatured this authoritarian principle of leadership with a choleric expression: «I’ll tell you what to do – and if you won’t, I’ll tell you what you’ll do instead»...
When visiting another country, I show my appreciation for ‹foreign› people and their culture by trying to thank, greet, and say goodbye to them in their language. I accept one part of the other, the unfamiliar, appreciatively into myself. Giving thanks creates a bridge from myself to the other. This...
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...
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