The well-known thought by Lao Tzu, “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step” (Tao Te Ching, Chapter 64), is often seen as a call to overcome “analysis paralysis” and to decide to act as a way to start the process of reaching a goal or completing a project. But, as with all expression…
Blog posts October 2024
Existential uncertainty and search for meaning in the postmodern world
The concept of “divided mind” is so old in Western culture that Heraclitus already spoke about this topic two and a half millennia ago, stating at the beginning of his book that many of us, although awake, live asleep. In this postmodern 21st century, that concept has become significantly relevant a…
We need to recover our sense of community of individuals to be free together
Recently, on the wall of a restaurant, I read this famous phrase by the Turkish poet Nâzım Hikmet (1902-1963): “Live like a solitary and free tree, like a forest in brotherhood.” As with good poets, imagination and metaphor reveal an important, but largely forgotten, philosophical truth: we are who …
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