While there is still time

"The Truth does not make people free. Facts do not change attitudes. If the guru is dogmatic, all that he evokes in his pilgrims/discip...

"I once witnessed an ironically enlightening instance of the cultural definition of insanity, and of the power politics of psychiatric ...

"...The Buddha's enlightenment is the most important single moment in Oriental mythology, a counterpart of the Crucifixion of the ...

"In Memoriam A.H.H. is a poem by the English poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson, completed in 1849. It is a requiem for the poet's Cambridg...

From John Steinbeck's "Cannery Row" - "...Only one brave and beautiful boy of ten named Andy from Salinas ever crossed...

Akon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akon Akon (born Aliaune Damala Bouga Time Puru Nacka Badara Akon Thiam), is a Senegalese-American R&B...

A novel for winter. 'Depths', by Swedish author Henning Mankell. Lars Tobiasson-Svartman, measurer of ocean depths, charting the ...

Harry: The things I thought were real are shadows, and the real Are what I thought were private shadows. O that awful privacy of the i...

Lucy to Charlie Brown on the baseball field: "I am sorry I missed that easy fly ball, Captain. I suddenly remembered all the ones I h...

In your grandfather's house in the village, there was this small room near the kitchen where fruits were kept to ripen. Mangoes carefull...

"Anyway, I keep picturing these little kids playing some game in this big field or rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody...

Do you ever wonder where love goes? Out there in the ether, I suppose Sometimes it burns enough to leave a trace in the air A ghost of me ...

Carpe Diem Is it memory that makes us whole? The question was posed by the ten o'clock news investigating Alzheimer's and stroke, ...

Amazing French band, at the Alliance Française - Yapa. Three guitars and a drummer. Towards the end the audience was standing up and clappin...

Malcolm Gladwell, on a possible reason for the high prevalence of violence and crime (related to personal honor) in the Southern (Appalachia...