Kategorie: Allgemein
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Theology Philosophy And Experience
Mieth, Dietmar (1990). „Meister Eckhart — Spiritualität des Denkens und Erfahrung des Glaubens.“ In: Spiritualität aus Glaubenserfahrung: Gestaltungen christlicher Existenz. Mechthild Dreyer and Werner Simon, Ed. 45. Story behind the Passage Yesterday in a conversation about education and my long-time vision of building a “school” (whatever that means to people nowadays), I caught myself talking about some really…
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Book Of The Week The Hermetica
Freke, Timothy, and Peter Gandy (1999). The Hermetica: The Lost Wisdom of the Pharaos. Story behind the Book Choice As you can see — I am still deep into my research on ancient Egyptian philosophy and spirituality. If you do that, The Hermetica plays a crucial role. It is actually the collected wisdom of the Egyptian God and…
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Saint Boy
https://www.bbc.com/sport/olympics/58117391 Story behind the Passage Yesterday the most remarkable scene of the Olympics happened. It was a metaphor of contemporary life. It revealed a true Saint. My Learnings Life is a game? We compete with all we have. Some have discuses, Some have spears, Some have fast legs, Others have horses. Go, Saint Boy, go,…
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Availability
Thaler, Rhichard H, and Cass R. Sunstein. Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness, 27. Story behind the Passage No, I am not talking about the kind of “availability” that we know from our daily lives; meaning temporal availability mostly. What is meant in the book is the availability of thoughts to get people…
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Implementing Diversity
Michaels, Walter Benn (2006). The Trouble with Diversity: How We Learned to Love Identity and Ignore Inequality, 6. Story behind the Passage Today I found my new book in the mail. The press sent me 10 copies of it — hardcover. Actually, this should be a day of joy. I worked on the book for at least…
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Learning Like Royal Children
King Abdullah II of Jordan (2012). Our Last Best Chance: A Story of War and Peace, 139. Story behind the Passage Today was a remarkable day in many ways and the most remarkable thing was that I got to talk about education and my vision of it to three different people. All these conversations happened more…
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Divine Animals
Degré, Tippi (2001). Tippi aus Afrika: Das Mädchen, das mit den Tieren spricht, 77. Story behind the Passage Yesterday someone told me that a horse had died in our stable. I was shocked. I mean, yes, animals die just like we do. But horses are very special animals. They are fascinating. You can watch them for…
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Bold Visionaries
Brands, H. W. (1999). Masters of Enterprise: Giants of American Business from John Jacob Astor and J. P. Morgan to Bill Gates and Oprah Winfrey, 188. Story behind the Passage On most of the days when I write for my blog, I wonder why the heck I called this “Startups Story Learning” at the beginning. After…
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The Devil As Role Model
Weisberger, Lauren (2003). The Devil Wears Prada, 368. Story behind the Passage Maybe it is a sign that I am getting old but I catch myself frequently talking about role models in conversations. Yesterday, I did it again when we were talking about politicians. I asked “where are the role models among the politicians nowadays — the Helmut…
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The Grimms Dictionary
Schmidt-Wiegand, Ruth (2008). “Die Brüder Grimm als Mitbegründer der Germanistik.“ In: Die Grimms: Kultur und Politik. Ed. Bernd Heidenreich, and Ewald Grothe, 138–162. 153. Story behind the Passage Yesterday, I watched a lecture online. The speaker, a philosopher, quoted several times from Grimms’ Dictionary. That made me remember that I had wanted to check on the…