Kategorie: Allgemein
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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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Completion And Expression
De Beauvoir, Simone (2005/1960). Memoiren einer Tochter aus gutem Hause, 208. Story behind the Passage Just now when opening de Beauvoir’s book, I had one of these moments again when you are being confronted with things you did in the past, which your “old” self did many years ago, and you had completely forgotten about them….
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Virtue And Politics
Aristotle, translated by David Ross (2009). The Nicomachean Ethics, 3–4. Story behind the Passage At no point in my life so far did I think so much about virtue. Actually, I probably thought about it very much but without being fully aware of it and without naming it like this. And I was not only thinking…
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Bonsai Death
Tanaka, Haruki (2021). Bonsai für Einsteiger — Das Praxisbuch: Wie Sie den für Sie richtigen Bonsai auswählen, aufziehen, zuschneiden und pflegen — inkl. der 10 besten Tipps für die Bonsaizucht. Story behind the Passage These days, I am really into plants. I mean, not plants in the sense of “drugs,” I really mean indoor plants and outdoor plants for…
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Putting Culture Into Words
Horkheimer, Max, and Theodor W. Adorno (1944/2007). “The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception: 41–72. In: Media and Cultural Studies: Keyworks. Ed. Meenakshi Gigi Durham and Douglas M. Kellner, 45. Story behind the Passage To clarify this straight away: Today I am actually dealing with “culture” not in the sense of “languge, habits, norms, etc.” but…
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Book Of The Week Madame Blavatzky
Lachman, Gary (2012). Madame Blavatzky: The Mother of Modern Spirituality. Story behind the Book Choice Many books just come to you via other people. This was the case with this one as well. If I had seen this book in a store or on the screen in the online book store, I would not have…