When I was researching educational issues at the Central Round Table in the archives of the GDR opposition this summer,...
Growth in knowledge enables us to perceive the weaknesses of other people much more clearly than before and, depending on...
Intimacy is within and without. In the aridity and solitude of the desert, I am thrown back on myself, while in the play of water in all its forms in Iceland, I am constantly invited to dive in, to be touched at my outer limit, to connect. Both landscapes resemble...
All creation is born from nothing. This applies not only to the creation of the earth, which was “desolate and...
When speaking of Africa, it’s not uncommon to speak of ‹Mother Africa› or the ‹motherland›, which corresponds to the Egyptian...
Our life begins in pain and often ends in it. Pain is a faithful companion. It takes hold of our bodies, sometimes warning us, sometimes pinching us, sometimes vague and speaking softly, sometimes overwhelming us. Who does not know the pain of the soul, the quiet melancholy in which it...
After a heated argument with my twelve-year-old son, he comes home with a somewhat tacky mug he found in a...
«Who is he up there?« ask visitors, pointing to the small winged creature that Rudolf Steiner recently placed at the...
Humanity has steadily continued to develop its moral consciousness over the past centuries – solidarity, respect for others, human dignity, equality, environmental protection, and pacifism… However, it seems that there is still a huge gulf between these moral ideals and the reality of the world – a reality still marked...
Malcolm Gladwell puts the story at the beginning of his book ‹Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking›: In 1983,...
«What’s new?» Frederick the Great asked his court astronomer, who, according to tradition, replied: «Do you already know the old,...
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