“For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves. And even more I revere them when they stand alone. They are like lonely persons. Not like hermits who have stolen away out of some weakness, but like great, solitary men, like Beethoven and Nietzsche. In their highest boughs the world rustles, their roots rest in infinity; but they do not lose themselves there, they struggle with all the force of their lives for one thing only: to fulfil themselves according to their own laws, to build up their own form, to represent themselves. Continue reading
Spirituality
A person is a person through other persons
“Ubuntu […] speaks of the very essence of being human. Continue reading
Candy Chang: Before I die I want to…
Sometimes, it is our task to find out how much music we can make with what we have left
Yitzhak Perlman, the great violinist, was playing in New York. Yitzhak Perlman was crippled by polio as a young child, so the bottom part of his body doesn’t work well and he wears these very prominent leg braces and comes on in crutches, in a very painful, slow way, hauling himself across the stage. Then he sits down and, very carefully, unbuckles the leg braces and lays them down, puts down his crutches, and then picks up his violin. So, this night the audience had watched him slowly, painfully, walk across the stage; and he began to play. And, suddenly, there was a loud noise in the hall that signaled that one of his four strings on his violin had just snapped.
You are the greatest story ever told
I have great news.
You are the star of the most poignant film ever conceived. An unprecedented epic saga, it is filmed in one continuous shot, from the first-person perspective. The sets are rich with detail, the lighting always underlines the mood perfectly, the cinematography always magnificent yet unpretentious. Continue reading
a friend who cares
“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. Continue reading
The necessity of understanding ourselves….
We do not see the importance, the significance, of exploring ourselves directly, not according to any idea, pattern, or teacher. Continue reading
The Best
The best, like water, Benefit all and do not compete. They dwell in lowly spots that everyone else scorns. Continue reading
The Whole World Is Your Own
I tell you one thing –
if you want peace of mind,
Our everyday actions speak for themselves…
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
– SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI Continue reading
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