Thee heaven appears in ‹Faust› three times: at the beginning, when God and Mephisto negotiate the soul of Faust, at...
Our language was made for earthly things. It’s harder to speak about the realm of the ethers. They’re difficult to...
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...
He was drawn to the sea. At age 20, he joined the French Navy and began navigating on the surface...
“Here, the audience adds something. Through perception, through listening ‘from outside,’ the ‘unheard’ becomes possible.” This is how author Marc...
Something similar (to initiation) also occurs in a near-death experience. The parallel lies in the fact that a person who has consciously reached the boundary of death cannot actually express in words what they have experienced. They experience a reality that is more real than anything we know here on...
Recently, Stephen Colbert, well-known host of “The Late Show,” received a call from his network’s lawyers informing him that he...
Malcolm Gladwell puts the story at the beginning of his book ‹Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking›: In 1983,...
Truth, beauty and goodness—three heavenly promises. Every guiding principle and every good wish, every happy moment and every intention has these three ideals at its core. Three heavens, three times a promised land for the three powers of our human soul: we come to ourselves, we come home when we...
“Time is life itself, and life resides in the human heart,” writes Michael Ende in the story of Momo. A...
“In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. But the earth was chaos and confusion. Darkness was upon...
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