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Brain Rules for Baby (John Medina)
Parenting is about developing hearts
Seeing his personality blossom was truly a gift. This is the message I want to leave you with as we part ways. As a new parent, you may feel sometimes that all children do is take from you, but it is just a form of giving in disguise. Kids present you with an ear infection, but…
Human, All Too Human: A Book For Free Spirits
Fate of Christianity
Fate of Christianity.—Christianity arose to lighten the heart, but now it must first make the heart heavy in order to be able to lighten it afterwards. Christianity will consequently go down.
La Formica Zen (italian Edition) ( )
Chi guarda dentro apre gli occhi
La vostra visione diventerà chiara solo quando guarderete nel vostro cuore. Chi guarda all'esterno, sogna. Chi guarda all'interno, apre gli occhi. (Carl Gustav Jung)
Questa strada ha un cuore?
Ogni strada è soltanto una tra un milione di strade possibili. Perciò dovete sempre tenere presente che una via è soltanto una via. Se sentite di non doverla seguire, non siete obbligati a farlo in nessun caso. Ogni via è soltanto una via. Non è un affronto a voi stessi o ad…
Il cuore di un uomo e gli animali
Puoi conoscere il cuore di un uomo già dal modo in cui egli tratta gli animali. Immanuel Kant
Non perdere il cuore di fanciullo
L'uomo grande è colui che non perde il suo cuore di fanciullo. (Mencio)
Shantaram (gregory David Roberts)
The famous indian head wiggle
No discovery pleased me more, on that first excursion from the city, than the full translation of the famous Indian head-wiggle. The weeks I’d spent in Bombay with Prabaker had taught me that the shaking or wiggling of the head from side to side—that most characteristic of…
The soul has no culture
At one point, Prabaker’s father reached out from his place at my left side to rest his hand on my shoulder. It was a simple gesture of kindness and comfort, but its effect on me was profound. A moment before, I’d been drifting toward sleep. Suddenly I was hard awake. I plunged…
Every act of pity is a kind of prayer
Dead and naked he looked thinner, feebler somehow. I should’ve pitied him. Even if we never pity them at any other time, and in any other way, we should pity the dead when we look at them, and touch them. Pity is the one part of love that asks for nothing in return and, because…
The world and i are not on speaking terms
The world and I are not on speaking terms, Karla said to me once in those early months. The world keeps trying to win me back, she said, but it doesn’t work. I guess I’m just not the forgiving type. And I saw that in her, too, right from the start. I knew from the first minute…
In India the heart guides better than the head
The simple and astonishing truth about India and Indian people is that when you go there, and deal with them, your heart always guides you more wisely than your head. There’s nowhere else in the world where that’s quite so true. I didn’t know that then, as I closed my eyes in…
A beauty that sours without goodness
It was impossible for me to tell her age or her nationality. She might’ve been Spanish. She might’ve been Russian. She might’ve been Indian, in part, or Chinese, or even Greek. And Karla was right—she had been beautiful once. It was the kind of beauty that grows from the sum of…
Only a wicked man benefits from good works
‘This social work seems to suit you,’ Didier commented through an arch smile. ‘You look so well and so fit—underneath the bruises and scratches, that is. I think you must be a very bad man, in your heart of hearts, Lin. Only a wicked man would derive such benefit from good…
The Book: On The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
The stomach strike and bad politics in science
Man aspires to govern nature, but the more one studies ecology, the more absurd it seems to speak of any one feature of an organism, or of an organism/environment field, as governing or ruling others. Once upon a time the mouth, the hands, and the feet said to each other, “We…
The absurdity of work life
In the meantime, the insurance and investment people have been interesting you in plans for Retirement—that really ultimate goal of being able to sit back and enjoy the fruits of all your labors. But when that day comes, your anxieties and exertions will have left you with a…
The only true atom is the universe
“Individual” is the Latin form of the Greek “atom”—that which cannot be cut or divided any further into separate parts. We cannot chop off a person’s head or remove his heart without killing him. But we can kill him just as effectively by separating him from his proper…