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Stewart, Iris J. (2000). Sacred Woman, Sacred Dance: Awakening Spirituality through Movement and Ritual, 12. Story behind the Passage Last night, I listened to music till very late. As often happens, I ended up listening to African and Arab music. And then, I also got into the “Jerusalema” song and the story behind it. The song…

Cuddon, J.A. (1999/1977). Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory, 192. Story behind the Passage Today, I had a car crash. Well, actually, I knocked over a street sign and that street sign hit a car. It was not anything major and actually, it turned out as the story of the day! I met a wonderful…

Meijer, E. R. (1963). Rembrandt, 13. Story behind the Passage It is stupid to talk about a “destination” because that does not reflect the life wisdom I have been blessed to gain. If you strive towards some destination, you will never get anywhere. Still, you end up in places that feel more like home than…

Poem Maya Angelou’s SuperSoul Sunday — Part 2 (ca. 24:40) In Peter Modler’s book Das Arroganzprinzip (“The Arrogance Principle”), which we read in my Storytelling AG this week, one finds the following line: “Da ich pragmatisch vorgehe, scheue ich mich auch nicht vor vereinfachten Aussagen“ (19). This is what every person in the business world learns — pragmatism. And I…

Walbank, Frank. W. Polybius: Greek Historian. Story behind the Passage Maybe it is because I am currently reading St. Augustine’s Confessions or maybe these days are simply so extraordinarily transformational that they trigger strong and clear emotions. It does not really matter why exactly this topic has come up now but insights are always related…

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (2005/1855). Die Leiden des jungen Werther, 10–11. Story behind the Passage Yesterday, I started getting deeper into Goethe. What I mean by that is that I really started studying him, not just on the surface like before. What differentiates “deeper” and “on the surface” for “normal” people, I do not know. For…

Nice Little Penguins. “Flying.” LyricFind Story behind the Passage All the way during my run this morning, I had this song in my ear. It was not despite the run, it was because of the run. If you run for so many years, I mean, in total, you go through different phases of running and…

Do What You Can to Help, for Allah Will Ask What You Did Not How Much… | Amaliah Story behind the Passage Today in a conversation with a very wise, kind, and strong man, I learned about this story above. It touched me deeply, just like everything else he said. There were so many sentences which…