How peculiar it is, to love someone. To share your life with somebody else. Actually it’s strange, because it isn’t really sharing your life. You spend time together, do things together, but is thát ‘sharing your life’? To answer this question, it is important to first know the meaning of ‘life’. But this question is even …
Het gevoel van medelijden is het grondbeginsel van Humaniteit Het gevoel van schaamte en afkeer is het grondbeginsel van Rechtvaardigheid (of Normbesef) Het gevoel voor wat juist en onjuist is, is het grondbeginsel van Wijsheid De neiging tot terugtreden en bescheidenheid is het grondbeginsel van Ritueel (of Decorum) De mens bezit deze vier grondbeginselen zoals …
A beautiful autumn-day welcomed me this morning. After a slow start of the day, I decide to go out for a walk, to enjoy the warm sunny weather, while it lasts. To sit down on my way, I bring my book (J.P. Sartre / The Age of Raison) and a thermo-cup of tea. After wandering around without a goal for a while …
‘The way’ is the natural course of life. It can’t be sensed, and can’t be followed. But by not following it, by letting things go their own way, one follows ‘the way’. This is the essence of nature, as manifested in plant and animal, in the sequence of seasons, and in the earth itself. All …
Because isn’t an adventure like a circle? As a circle comes into being when it returns to its start, when it is completed, so also an adventure. No sooner is an adventure this, namely an adventure, until after it’s finished. You cannot have an adventure, you can only tell about it afterwards. When the adventure wasn’t yet an adventure, …
Ik las gister op Fok een topic over een nieuwe film van studio Ghibli, namelijk Howl’s Moving Castle. Dit inspireerde mij om een ‘Princess Mononoke’, een andere film van deze studio, te kijken. Eerder al schreef ik over ‘My Neighbour Totoro’, wat nog steeds mijn favoriete film is, maar het lijkt erop dat studio Ghibli …
Once, once I thought I was free. That I lived in a free country. That I was free to think, to do as I see fit. That there was such a thing as a free will, that this was worth defending. Once… But is there something like freedom? Has there ever been something like freedom? Can this even exist? We live in a free country. …
Do you still remember? Years ago, when you were still a child. How the world was full of discoveries. Every day was a day of amazement. Every discovery so endlessly interesting that the world around you was easily forgotten. The latest discovery was the world. Until a new, even more interesting, discovery came along. Life was such an …
