Monatsarchiv: Juni 2018

The world’s 7.6 billion people represent just 0.01% of all living things….but, big BUT: Humankind is revealed as simultaneously insignificant and utterly dominant in the grand scheme of life on Earth by a groundbreaking new assessment of all life on … Weiterlesen →

>Eine der am häufigsten zitierten Vorannahmen des NLP lautet „Die Landkarte ist nicht das Gebiet.“ Eine Metapher des Philosophen Alfred Korzybski, die verdeutlicht, dass sich uns die Welt nur indirekt über unsere Sinneseindrücke erschließt. Die Sinne funktionieren wie Filter, so … Weiterlesen →

„Don’t you think, considering what’s happening in the world, in India, in European America, the general degeneration in literature, in art and especially in the culture, ……  the question arises from that, just a human being realized with all seriousness,  … Weiterlesen →

Da  kommt eine junge Lehrerin mit dem Ziel in die Beratung, „endlich aus diesen lästigen Verwicklungen herauszukommen“ (O – Ton). ‚Verwicklungen‘, die ihr in ihrem Arbeitsalltag als Stützlehrerin in der Elementar- und der Mittelstufe regelmäßig widerfahren. Hinter ihrem Rücken würden … Weiterlesen →

https://baumaninstitute.leeds.ac.uk/collection/audio-visual-archive/ “Living in Diasporas” – a Bauman lecture from the Bruno Kreisky Forum for International Dialogue, Vienna, Austria – 8th November 2010 Fusion of Horizons Gadamer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusion_of_horizons

„You always get what you want, invariably, even though you may think that it’s entirely opposed to your wishes. But if it’s your karma, it’s everything that happens to you. Putting in another way, everything that comes to you is … Weiterlesen →

Modernity has two powerful characteristics that constantly produce redundant people, who can’t be accommodated—the people that don’t fit. The first is the order-building characteristic: modernity is obsessively ordering a chaotic reality. Inevitably this produces conflicting loyalties, diasporas and migration, since … Weiterlesen →

‚Fascism‘, in its maximum conceptual extension (encompassing nationalism and religious fundamentalism, political authoritarianism, sexual aggression and so on . . .) can be brought back to a fundamental obsession: the obsession with identity, the obsession with belonging, with origin, with … Weiterlesen →

„Everything wiggles. The outlines of the hills. The shapes of the trees. The way the wind brushes the grass. The clouds. Tracts of streams. It all wiggles. And for some reason or other, we find wiggly things very difficult to … Weiterlesen →

A monk asked a Zen Master, “How can I avoid the summer’s heat and the winter’s cold?” “Go where there is no heat in summer or cold in winter.” “Where is that?” asked the monk. “When it is hot, sweat; … Weiterlesen →