Singer and activist Sting talks about the meaning of manhood and the importance of incorporating also the female principles.
Maria Popova writes about the complaints by medieval monks that were found scribbled in the margins of illuminated manuscripts.
The Dalai Lama delivers a humorous speech on humans, visitors from other galaxies, East-West, higher and lower…
Physicist and Nobel laureate Niels Bohr was one of the major figures in the early development of quantum physics.
Mindblowing comments on video of astronauts about the way they experienced seeing the earth from outer space.
An excerpt from the excellent movie, ‘My Dinner with Andre’, directed by the brilliant Louis Malle in 1981. As the situation was true then, it is as true now…
Reputed violinist Daniel Hope sees a link between science and music and is inspired by the movements of the planets.
We need more understanding of human nature, because the only real danger that exists is man himself. He is the great danger. And we are pitifully unaware of it. We know nothing of man… far too little. His psyche should be studied – because we are the origin of all coming evil. Carl Gustav Jung
Among the horrors we read about in the media on a daily basis, a little reflection on the response of Spanish passer-by’s upon hearing this unconventional rendering of Beethoven’s eternal master piece.
Music by Johann Strauss immediately inspires to revel and waltz with abandon. The overture to ‘Die Fledermaus’ is one of those everlasting masterpieces one listens to with joy. Now here’s a performance with an unusual conductor, Edward Yudenich, at the time seven years old, yet already conducting like a maestro and with totality!
“How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the present, if it were always present and never moved on to become the past, it would not be time, but eternity.” ― St. Augustine of Hippo, 354 – 430 AD
Credit to Zen Gardner Related article: Compliance Osho’s discourse excerpt: Obedience Has Been Exploited
First they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew. Then they came for the Communists and I did not speak out because I was not a Communist. Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out because I was not a trade
Should there be any illusions left about the true state of American politics and government, George Carlin shreds them to pieces.
More than fifty years ago, on April 27, 1961, John F. Kennedy gave a speech before the American Newspaper Publishers Association, in which he warned the press about the secret societies that are the real power in global affairs.
Jubilee Celebration song composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Gary Barlow. Latter travelled to many Commonwealth countries to get people to contribute to the song. Listen carefully to the blind aboriginal in the Blue Mountains in Oz. Somehow very sannyasin-like!
H.G. Wells was a fearless, outspoken and prophetic writer; ‘The Time Machine’ is among the many books he authored. His most consistent political ideal was the ‘World State’.
Philip Gould, Baron Gould of Brookwood (30 March 1950 – 6 November 2011) was a British political consultant and former advertising executive, closely linked to the Labour Party.