If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.

— Joseph Campbell

Manpower without unity is not a strength unless it is harmonized and united properly, then it becomes a spiritual power. Vallabhbhai Patel

We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

- Diogenes of Babylon

One of the great benefits of writing down the events in your life is that you will begin to see your existence as a grand story.

"Our various technological prostheses become extensions of our absentmindedness as they become more refined." - Duncan Reyburn

“Our minds are hurt more often by overeating than by hunger.” — Petrarch

The Gardener”

Have I lived enough?

Have I loved enough?

Have I considered Right Action enough, have I come to any conclusions?

Have I experienced happiness with sufficient gratitude?

Have I endured loneliness with grace? I say this, or perhaps I’m just thinking it.

Actually, I probably think too much

. Then I step out into the garden, where the garde

Kanzlerin Angela Merkel und ihre große Koalition haben von 2015 bis 2021 nicht nur für den zweiten russisch-deutschen Gasstrang Nord Stream 2 gekämpft, sondern für ein deutsches Geschäftsmodell, das auf drei Säulen stand: auf billiger Energie der Russen, dem Absatzmarkt der Chinesen und der kostenlosen Sicherheitsgarantie der Amerikaner. Ein solche

“Many people (by which I meant me) seem to feel as if they start off each morning in a kind of "productivity debt", which they must struggle to pay off through the day, in hopes of reaching a zero balance by the time evening comes. Few things feel more basic to my experience of adulthood than this vague sense that I'm falling behind, and need to cl

🎶Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack, a crack in everything That's how the light gets in 🎶 ~ Leonard Cohen, Anthem