“Do you feel like a war is happening inside you?” – Rabbi Simon JACOBSON

What seems to be singularly human is not consciousness or free will but inner conflict – the contending impulses that divide us from ourselves. No other animal seeks the satisfaction of its desires and at the same time curses them as evil; spends its life terrified of death while being ready to die in order…

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“Anxiety and Lucidity: Reflections on Culture in Times of Unrest” – Leszek KOCZANOWICZ

What has happened to us? What is the meaning of what has happened to us? Bewilderment is perhaps tbe most frequent and at tbe same time most adequate response to the phenomenon of modernity. Emotion underlies even the most learned reflection on the modern age. All attempts at grasping its definitive characteristics have ended in…

Journey to Hell: The Path to Self-Knowledge | Eternalised

“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.” J. MILTON, Paradise Lost “Hell — as precise as a ticket for a traffic violation;Purgatory — false as all allusions to Heaven;Paradise — window dressing of fictions and vapidity…Dante’s trilogy constitutes the highest rehabilitation of the…

“Behind Our Anxiety, the Fear of Being Unneeded” – Dalai LAMA

THE NEW YORK TIMES, November 4, 2016 In many ways, there has never been a better time to be alive. Violence plagues some corners of the world, and too many still live under the grip of tyrannical regimes. And although all the world’s major faiths teach love, compassion and tolerance, unthinkable violence is being perpetrated…