The experience of powerlessness is part of inner transformation. Some thoughts on encountering the spirit of the times. Every day,...
What is the significance of tears today? Does what brings us to cry, bring us to our ‘I’? How do...
Changes in the demographics of Central Europe are placing a significant strain on society. The first wave of people born between 1950 and 1972 are now retiring or have already done so. Not all of them are in good health, which means the costs of caring for the older generation...
Franka Henn begins the conversation with Bart Vanmechelen by asking him about his capacity to be humorously self-deprecating. Bart says...
Three images define the Pentecost event in the Bible. First, everyone is gathered in the house. It is the community...
In Memory of Margot Friedländer One cold January morning in 1943, Margot Friedländer’s brother was arrested in the family apartment in Berlin. Her mother came home an hour later and learned what had happened from the neighbors. Without waiting for Margot, she turned herself in to the Nazi police. She...
“Build noodle bridges!” a physics teacher friend of mine recommended. I was substitute teaching a three-week physics block in mechanics...
Your path constantly leads to a fork in the road, though it often goes unnoticed because habit takes over the...
A deepening respect and awe for the human being come about on the path to self-knowledge. The regular, the day-to-day, everything that is taken for granted can begin to reveal unexpected dimensions. What seemed plain and mundane is enriched and enlivened. But this path is not limited to positive experiences...
It occurs to me that I will not survive purgatory. I realize, all too painfully, that I also have a...
The sculpture of the Representative of Humanity, known as the “Group,” invites an inner conversation, a search for its center—“in...
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