It must be wonderful to live near a mountain (or on it) - the fresh air coming off of it in the morning, the peaks in the distance which always remind you of a possible higher order of the universe, and the seemingly easy escape into nature. I’m adding to my list of my favourite … laemmchen🔎fund: mountains weiterlesen
Leben
laemmchen🔎fund: plans
Though I might be considered by some to have reached a goal, I have discovered along the way that at every position in the whole hierarchy of beings there is as much above as below, and thus that there are standpoints from which every position is as much a failure as it is a success.- … laemmchen🔎fund: plans weiterlesen
The Architecture of Happiness

It`s been a long time since I had contemplated the beauty of houses – maybe because of the underlying fear de Botton describes that everything is going to waste anyway. Surroundings should have no influence on how we feel, if we are only strong enough to shut out the outside world and create our own … The Architecture of Happiness weiterlesen
Reading Impressions: Alan Watts

Alan Watts about... ... enlightenment It is a special kind of enlightenment to have this feeling that the usual, the way things normally are, is odd - uncanny and highly improbable. https://www.flickr.com/photos/tom-walk/16314225007/ (c) Tom Walk (https://www.flickr.com/photos/tom-walk/16314225007/) ... birth We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. … Reading Impressions: Alan Watts weiterlesen
Schöne neue Liebeswelt
Es gibt wenige Bücher, die einen so sehr mit der eigenen Lebenswirklichkeit, den eigenen Fehlern konfrontieren, dass fast jeder Satz schmerzt. Das Ende der Liebe von Sven Hillenkamp ist eines davon – ein schonungsloser, poetischer, ja epischer Bericht über die Seelenlage des modernen Liebenden. Beziehungen Laut Hillenkamp treffen viele Menschen bei der Partnersuche keine Wahl … Schöne neue Liebeswelt weiterlesen
Esperanto el futuro perfecto – An evening with my favourite author

About crocodiles, alligators and frogs When I arrive at the place of the reading, a little late, a small group of rather old folks already sits in the front rows and watches me warily as I make my way to the last row, gliding into the outermost corner like a forgotten tile at the board … Esperanto el futuro perfecto – An evening with my favourite author weiterlesen
Welcome to Beijing – Teil 1

Der erste Teil meiner Kurzgeschichte über die Ankunft in einer Stadt, von der man sich viel erwartet und trotzdem immer wieder überrascht wird. Welcome to Beijing Unsere dritte lange Zugfahrt in China führt vorbei an Trabantenstädten und fernen Bergkuppen im Abendblau. Aus der Ferne, wenn sich die Hochhäuser optisch zusammenziehen, sieht jede chinesische Kleinstadt wie … Welcome to Beijing – Teil 1 weiterlesen