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The New Philosophy
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Know Thyself

What if to examine life means not to examine your own life, your own subjectivity, but rather literally to examine life?

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What do you need?

Why are you suffering?

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Brand Identity

I awoke last night from a deep dream of peace, and saw, within the moonlight in my room, making it rich, and like a lily in bloom, an angel writing in a book of gold. Bit odd, I thought, but that’s Germany for you. Hello, Angel, I said. Wotcha

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On Bob Dylan

“What music do you like?” “Bob Dylan,” I said. “That’s not a type of music,” she said gently. “That’s a musician.” I first encountered Dylan in the early winter of 1997. I had just gone to England to study. It was half-term and I was staying with my

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On Change

Du musst dein Leben ändern, writes Rilke. You must change your life. Well, yes, Rainer. Of course. But how?

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On Creativity

The mountain spring has dried up.

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Peak Experience

What do we expect peak experience to feel like?

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Meaningful Work

Simple needs, human needs - genuine human needs. But what is this word genuine and what does it have to do with need?

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Struggle, gifts, trains and delight

I doubt that you've noticed, but I certainly have - I haven't written to you in two weeks. I'm finding it hard to write at the moment. I'm not sure why, but I can't find the place from where the

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Love, and do as you please

These words have been present in me today. Over and over again they arise, a gentle repetitive rhythm … love, and do as you please.

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How Much Land Does a Man Need?

“Our only trouble,” thought Pahóm, “is that we haven’t land enough. If I had plenty of land, I shouldn’t fear the Devil himself.”

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How can we know the Good?

Like many of us, I want to be good and wise and happy. But would we recognise those things if we were given them?