Kategorie: Allgemein
-
Culture And Politics
CultureReport. Eunic Yearbook 2017/2018. Mafaldo Dâmaso, 151. Story behind the Passage This passage is from a book that I picked up at a huge Middle Eastern conference three years ago. It was actually the last academic conference I attended, I think. If it will remain the last academic conference I ever attended, I do not know.…
-
Breathing
Iyengar, B. K. S. (2015/1966). Light on Yoga: The Definitive Guide to Yoga Practice, 361. Story behind the Passage A few weeks ago, I noticed that my breathing was slightly off. This does not happen to me that often anymore, but it did. So, it was like an alarm bell going off. I have to…
-
Bearing Freedom
Bergmann, Frithjof (1977). On Being Free. Kindle. Story behind the Passage It is still so remarkable that all this New Work talk was triggered by a man who wrote his book On Being Free close to five decades ago. Nobody knows exactly how it then ended up as this hype and how he was involved in…
-
Book Of The Week The First And Last Freedom
Krishnamurti, J. (2013/1954). The Last Best Freedom. Story behind the Book Choice Krishnamurti has been on my reading and learning list for a long time. In a way, his teachings have already reached me via different channels. Still, it needed the project I am currently working on to finally read one of his books. This one…
-
Reentry From Error
Al-Ghazali (1107). Deliverance from Error. Story behind the Passage For 318 days, I have been blogging about a book passage or text excerpt now. Every single one of these books stayed in my memory because it had taught me something. Yet, since the reading had mostly taken place a long time ago, the insights were not…
-
Slug Sex
Stable, Michele, and Linda Gamlin (1990). Wissen für Kinder: Tiere, 15. Story behind the Passage No, I am not kidding. Yesterday in the garden while chaffing some wood, I happened to notice a slug couple underneath a shadowy bush. Actually, that was the bush where I had buried the snake from a few weeks ago. The…
-
Will Moves Mountains
Cliff, Jimmy (1970). “You Can Get It if You Really want.” Musixmatch Story behind the Passage How much needs to happen for people to finally ACT? I am not talking about any specific action. I am simply talking about my life-long topic: the gap between thinking, talking, and acting. The question is always on my…
-
Book Of The Week Teresa Von Avila
Prinz, Alois (2017). Teresa von Avila: Die Biographie. Geschichte hinter der Buchauswahl Diese Biographie über Teresa von Avila ist sozusagen eine Biographie über die Biographie. Teresa selbst schrieb zu ihren Lebzeiten ihre Geschichte in La Vida auf. Prinz integriert Erkenntnisse aus dieser und weiteren Schriften in seine eigene historische Recherche. Diese Mischung erlaubt es, zwischen…
-
Soccer Language And Leadership
Roberts, Wess (1987). Leadership Secrets of Attila the Hun, 25. Story behind the Passage Today in a conversation, I suddenly noticed that 80% of our analogies revolved around soccer. We compared business characters to famous players, we talked about certain moves in a way that you describe a player’s typical position in the game. And altogether…
-
Neurotic
Plath, Sylvia (1963). The Bell Jar, 98. Story behind the Passage Maybe it is fall or maybe the full moon. I do not know. But sometimes the days are gloomy without you knowing why. Or you know why but you to not want to know. That is the worst kind of non-knowledge ever. So, I decided…