Kategorie: Allgemein
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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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Intellect
Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1983). Emerson: Essays and Lectures, 421. Story behind the Passage We forget so much, it is incredible. I admire the people who can quote passages and the corresponding authors’ names by heart. I have never been able to do this. I am happy if I remember a central statement by a sole…
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Chimney Philosophy
Williams, Tennessee (1999/1945). The Glass Menagerie. “The Catastrophe of Success,” 99. Story behind the Passage Today the chimney sweeper came to visit. She had to inspect the chimney and the heater, which is something she needs to do every three years. The checking does not take long or require too much concentration. A conversation unfolded…
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After Language
Burrow, J. A., and Thorlac Turville-Petre (2005): A Book of Middle English, 15 Story behind the Passage One of the supposedly most sophisticated things that make us human is also one of the most limiting things: verbal language. I am writing “supposedly most sophisticated” and “verbal language” because, of course, the more sophisticated we truly are,…
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Snakes
Bruce-Mitford, Miranda, ed. (2020/2008). Zeichen und Symbole: Ihre Geschichte und Bedeutung, 67. Story behind the Passage This morning during my run I saw a snake. Well, it was not a real snake but a blind worm, as I later googled (they are not real sknakes but lizards). Still, they look like snakes and are actually…
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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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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…