Many of you surely know the risen Christ by Matthias Grünewald, which belongs to the Isenheim Altarpiece. This being floats, so illuminated in the vault of wholeness that the Roman soldiers turn away, blinded. I used to wonder if you could still be physically intimate with such a being. Actually,...
There are 10,000 things in every household – that’s how it is often said. No one has counted them, and it is unclear whether a mineral cabinet accounts one or a hundred times, a library one or a thousand times. Nevertheless, many things surround a personality, like second clothing or...
We do not read in order to collect information, but rather to learn and practice reading, in every sense. On any day, read only as much as you can work through, inwardly, in the time before the next reading. The slower you read, the greater will be the possibility that...
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