Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet confinement of your aloneness to learn. –David Whyte “ One wonders only when he is alone, and seeks the truth,” said Einstein. The great thinker and ploymath Goethe, discovered that creative…
If our celestial soul is shrouded in the dark smoke produced by the imperious self, our soul will cease to reflect the divine spark within it. – Ostad Elahi Do you ever find yourself caught between opposing ideas when…
But already my desire and my will Were being turned like a wheel, all at one speed, By the love which moves the sun and the other stars. in his timeless Divine Comedy, Dante described the euphoric state of…
In her heartening story, Amy Cuddy speaks about how she reconstructed her body language and her mindset at the turning points of her life, and how it reaffirmed her presence in the world. You can watch below.
“ Love is really the only thing we can possess, keep with us and take with us when we depart. ” Dr. Elizabeth Kübler-Ross (1926-2004), in her pioneering work with patients nearing the end of their lives in palliative…
“Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.” The great Renaissance polymath Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) –timeless artist, engineer, architect, mathematician, and scientist, with profound knowledge in science from anatomy and optics to physics…
It is an extraordinary exhibition where there is no museum, there are no solid paintings and yet it is a feast for all the senses and for the soul. Vincent Van Gogh’s (1853-1890) genius brushworks become alive in a mesmerizing…
Siri Hustvedt, the prizewinning writer and scholar, describes the meaning of life through her work, the joy she finds in the creative impulse and the urgency to write driven by it. Her knowledge of psychoanalysis, art and neuroscience is woven…
On how dancing boosts morale and revives the soul “ In the dance, one finds the cinema, the comic strips, the Olympic hundred meters and swimming, and what’s more : poetry, love and tenderness,” said Maurice Bejart, the exceptional…
How the intelligence of the trees is measured and what it means for maintaining our life on earth Plants are sentient beings which have emotions, who feel the pain when damaged, enjoy Mozart, can respond to unspoken thoughts of humans…
