1. Modernity & Nostalgia To be modern is to find ourselves in an environment that promises us adventure, power, joy, growth, transformation of ourselves and the world - and, at the same time, that threatens to destroy everything we have,
1. "You were supposed to sing or to dance while the music was being played." In the opening of Tao Ruspoli’s documentary on Heidegger’s philosophy, Being in the World, Ryan Cross, a bass player, tries to
To feel abandoned is to deny the intimacy of your surroundings. David Whyte When modernity introduced a standard of usefulness as the measure of all things, it severed the connection between nature and those who should be closest to it
I wanted to go on a great pilgrimage so I sat still for a few hours. Kabir In The Wisdom of Anxiety, Alan Watts explores the “backwards law" or “the law of reversed effort.” This refers to the idea