Every journey, whether physical/geographical or in a symbolic sense, even understood as life itself, has as its destination not the fleeting pleasure of the eyes or entertainment, but knowledge and experience.
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We are in a little village, John Dutch, in northern Utah: 220 inhabitants, high up above a canyon. Below flows the Green Rivern, which much further on, in the Canyonlands, joins the Colorado River.
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Every political movement has its religion . Today political movements all resemble one another because they are backed by the same " creed ", which is the scientific one .
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The current state of human wretchedness is plain to see in the comments on a post that was meant to be simply a tribute to a human being who was barbarically killed for what he thought and said .
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What is Beautiful is self-evident . It needs no explanation. When we are surprised by beauty our breath stops.
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Let me begin by saying that art and sport should be spaces for meeting, where people or factions who are normally enemies find neutral ground in which to communicate and, at times, make peace.
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In the early Nineties, when the most important Black Metal records saw the light of day, I had an “alternative” music shop.
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These days mark the anniversary of the dropping of two nuclear bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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As described in my latest book Askesis , we are going through a “dark night”, that is, a twilight period.
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In a town in Spanish Murcia, some not exactly “integrated” migrants, after various acts of violence , beat up an elderly man. The exasperated population rises up.
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Exactly as in every zombie film, the undead who now wander the streets of our cities are unable to imagine taking responsibility for their own lives.
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Askesis is a book through which to understand Taoism and, thanks to Taoism, the inevitability of the historical moment we are living through.
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