Our life begins in pain and often ends in it. Pain is a faithful companion. It takes hold of our...
Aesthetic education has three meanings. To start, it means education through a high proportion of artistic activities. Every child that...
Robinson Crusoe befriends a ‹savage›. In the existentialism of his situation, he overcomes the cultural boundaries that would have made ‹Friday› a slave. He gains a human friend. When a young acquaintance suddenly had a tumor in her head, all our quarrels became null and void. Our trivialities and emotional...
I am no longer the child who looked at the camera from the changing table 50 years ago. But I...
«It seems that mechanical-technical civilization is primarily deadly for the soul. The heart can hardly bear the icy touch of...
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...
Our tour group had booked an auditorium in the hotel in Luxor, Egypt. We were there on time, but an...
Do you know Beethoven’s ‹Immortal Beloved›? Beethoven dedicated all his music from a certain point in time to an ‹immortal...
Who still owns the truth today? The world has become incredibly complex in the last 100 years. The longing for simple answers is greater than ever – but these are more difficult to get than ever. Opinions are plentiful. They often come in black or white. There are endless, contradictory...
Blackbirds, tits, and finches do not argue about the way they sing. They simply sing and chirp the beauty’s tones....
During my Easter visit to Potsdam, I met I., a young mother and sales manager from Odesa in Ukraine. Her...
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