Come rain or shine, 88-year-old Bermudian Johnny Barnes devotes six hours every day to an endearing traffic ritual that has made him one of the island’s most cherished citizens.
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In the last century, a tourist from the States visited the famous Polish rabbi, Hofetz Chaim. He was astonished to see that the rabbi‘s home was only a simple room filled with books. The only furni-ture was a table and a bench.“Rabbi, where is your furniture?“ asked the tourist. “Where is yours?“ said Hofetz. “Mine? But I‘m passing through. I‘m only a visitor here.“
„So am I.“ Anthony de Mello
„…You evoke light out of the universe, in the same way you, by nature of having a soft skin, evoke hardness out of wood. Wood is only hard in relation to a soft skin. It‘s your eardrum that evokes noise out of the air. You, by being this organism, call into being this whole universe of light and color and hardness and heaviness in everything.“ ~Alan Watts
Das Buch von Gabriel Looser “Wohin geht die Seele?“ behandelt eine uralte Frage der Menschheit. Ein erster Teil wendet sich überlieferten Traditionen zu (Juden-, Christentum und Islam sowie dem tibetischen Buddhismus, dem alten Ägypten und den Mayas) und findet hier bedeutsame, oft bis heute gültige Aussagen über unser Menschsein. Im zweiten Teil geben Nahtod-Erfahrungen Einblicke in das, was Menschen im Sterben erleben. Immer wieder stellt sich aber die Frage, was uns alte Traditionen noch sagen können, oder wo wir für uns heute neue, eigene Antworten finden müssen.
Mystics in all ages and cultures describe the self as infinite, stable and ever-present phenomena. Modern physics describe the world as a self-moving, self-designing pattern, an undivided wholeness, a dance. We, as a society, relate to the self mostly as an individual, unique, time bound form. Our common sense, as individuals and society, hasn’t caught up with this picture and it still based on long-held biases and stories. The Earth is clearly round but we still act as if it was flat…
We live at the dawn of a scientific revolution, every day brings new findings from a wide range of scientific disciplines about what it means to be human. Modern science now gives us the detailed descriptions of the mechanisms our brain needs to construct what we call the self.
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