Quoting D.H. Lawrence
Jean Toomer (December 26, 1894 – March 30, 1967) was an American poet, novelist and important figure of the Harlem Renaissance and modernism.
Pope Francis is launching a monthly video where he will outline his proposals and prayer intentions.
I want to believe that there is no madman on Earth who would decide to use nuclear weapons. Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (1952 – ), President of Russia Photo: © Sputnik / Ramil Sitdikov Source: Sputnik News, December 20, 2015
Jiddu Krishnamurti asserts that the activities of the computer will take over the activities of the brain, and can even invent a new religion.
Alan Watts (1915 – 1973), the British philosopher, writer and speaker, on the necessity of accepting death (original audio).
Viktor Schauberger (1885 – 1958), was an Austrian forest caretaker, naturalist, philosopher, inventor and biomimicry experimenter. He developed all his ideas on what he observed in nature. Credit to Rasesh
Novalis (May 2, 1772 – March 25, 1801), pseudonym of Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg. He was a poet, author, and philosopher of early German Romanticism.
Nikolas Tesla (1856 – 1943) was an eminent if not misunderstood Serbian-American inventor, electrical and mechanical engineer, and futurist.
Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is humanity’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion. Oscar Wilde
1. The average human life is relatively short. 2. You only ever live the life you create for yourself. 3. Being busy does not mean being productive. 4. Some kind of failure always occurs before success. 5. Thinkinng and doing are two very different things. 6. You don’t have to wait for an apology to
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) is the composer who established a strong national tradition for musical creativity in Finland, which flourishes to the present day. He grew up at a time when Finland was fighting for independence from Russia, and the nationalist flavour of his early works invoked adoration from the public and consternation from the authorities.
Let us take some event in the life of humanity. For instance, war. There is a war going on at the present moment. What does it signify? It signifies that several millions of sleeping people are trying to destroy several millions of other sleeping people. They would not do this, of course, if they were
Tim Sparks, on IdeaPod, September 14, 2014
Your car is German Your vodka is Russian. Your pizza is Italian. Your kebab is Turkish. Your democracy is Greek. Your coffee is Brazilian. Your movies are American. Your tea is Tamil. Your shirt is Indian. Your oil is Saudi Arabian. Your electronics are Chinese. Your numbers are Arabic. Your letters are Latin. You are
We like this quote because it reminds us of the many jobs we came to do in the commune without prior knowledge, in particular in Rajneeshpuram, where we learned our skills ‘on the job’. Richard Branson is a British business man and investor, best known as the founder of the Virgin Group (airline, music, space
Take a few minutes to listen with full awareness – and be enchanted by the beauty of the splendid movements of the flowers …
A selection from an article in The Guardian.
New York photographer Richard Renaldi grabs strangers off the street and takes photos of them together.
Bond University, Australia, has an annual contest calling for the most appropriate definition of a contemporary term.