Category Archives: The Window Seat

A place for reflection

Surround sound

It feels like the momentum has changed very much in favor of those who always had the real power – the power to say “no” to lies, deceit and abuse. These pictures are from a demonstration in Spain on September … Continue reading

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Big cheaters, little cheaters

For everyone who believes that the bad guys are just a few…    

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…and beyond

Michio Kaku on death and the afterlife. A physicist trying to prove the biggest question of mankind

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The power of the gods

From the Big Bang to E=mc2 to the latest bleeding-edge advances in string theory and quantum mechanics, Prof Michio Kaku offers a concise and accessible history of physics, while shining a light on the discipline’s promise to bring us closer to the secrets … Continue reading

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The benefit of failure

JK Rowlings about epic failure… “Failure meant the stripping away of the inessential. Rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life”.

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Moving into the unknown

I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which … Continue reading

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The kiss

An enchanted guide to a very famous and popular painting… I found the video on http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/, a lovely non-profit organization creating a free, multi-dimensional, multi-medial  art history book. Isn’t this the way to go ? Share yourself with the world. Create….and … Continue reading

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Connecting

…with Richard Miller from NeverNotHere

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The antidote

Exploring the “negative path” to well-being… Research] points to an alternative approach [to happiness]: a ‘negative path’ to happiness that entails taking a radically different stance towards those things most of us spend our lives trying hard to avoid. This … Continue reading

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The arrow of time

Why is the past different from the future ?

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