I have watched the awakening of intelligence in each of my four children. It is so quick, so impressive, that one wonders how such a progression can end . . . in what we are.…

In a book dedicated to Samuel Beckett, Les Cahiers de l’Herne there is a short text on Beckett by another great thinker: Eugene Ionesco. Here is a part of it: … It is not from…

The title of the post is really not the luckiest. What do I mean by “literature books that inspired John Gray’s philosophy”? From the moment I started reading John Gray’s books, starting with the Straw…

If you are a fan of great spiritual confessions or autobiographies such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Reveries of the Solitary Walker or Augustine’s Confessions, a book that should delight you is Leo Tolstoy’s A Confession. It…

Near the end of chapter 1 of The Magus, John Fowles writes the following: It poured with rain the day I left. But I was filled with excitement, a strange exuberant sense of taking wing.…

I am at my best when nobody knows me, nobody recognizes me. When I am just another nobody, in other words. Henry Miller, My Life as an Echo I finally got my hands on Henry…

Memento mori is Latin for remember that you must die. A scary thought at first – contemplating the inevitability of death can make you desperate, frustrated and anxious. To be Stoic is to accept things…