Sometimes life feels like a struggle where every day is a battle you have to win. This feeling of always having to fight can be discouraging as it feels like you can never rest. Life is an eternal beginning. The “effortless” life, which the Chinese call wuwei (see article), is ideal since it is enough to perceive the ambient energy…
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The need to move from the status of believer to that of spiritual seeker All religious traditions are built from one or more people who were spiritual seekers, yet the faithful adopt the posture of believer. Throughout the ages, religion has spread first under the impulse of an enlightened master. Whether we call them prophets, gurus or mystics, each of…
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Ā Ā If there was to be a book equivalent to Sun Tzu’s Art of War for the land of the rising sun, it would be the one we are going to deal with today: the book of the 5 rings (also called the book of the 5 wheels) by Miyamoto Musashi. Much more than a military strategy book, it…
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Art has its source in the life of worship. Only in the relatively short time span of human history has art ceased to be anything other than a ceremonial or devotional object. Art was until then the manifestation of a mystical or inspired experience. As such, the word inspiration is directly linked to the divine essence, someone inspired was a…
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The French series “Call my agent”, initially produced by the channel France 2 and aimed at a French audience, has conquered the world thanks to its broadcast on Netflix. Even though it is franchouillarde in many respects, it still managed to attract an audience as eclectic as passionate. Let’s look at the key to the success of this series and…
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Jean-Paul Belmondo is gone and his disappearance leaves an abyssal chasm that it would seem vain to try to fill. More than an actor or a comedian, Jean-Paul Belmondo was a man. He is no longer here, but he will live forever, as long as our hearts continue to beat, we, the anonymous crowd that we are who loved him…
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Using the thousand-year-old knowledge of Chinese thought If there is a book that has crossed the ages and that comes to us from the East, it is this one. It was written by a Chinese general of the 5th century with Jesus Christ. Its purpose is clear, it is to give the basics of military strategy to its readers. The…
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It seems that there are several stages of development. When we are children, we try to inculcate values, this is the work of parents and school in part. When we grow up, this learning seems to focus only on the acquisition of skills, we come to forget the need to continue to educate ourselves morally. Moral education has long been…
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Tips for being more positive: The power of the compliment Change the way you look at the world by using the power of the compliment Do you ever feel like you wake up in the morning and are in a bad mood or just not in a particularly positive mood? Like any object that sets itself in motion, a good…
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Having a child: a question that emerges at the dawn of a possible ecocidal cataclysm. Having children is more than a life choice, it is the choice of life(s). By having children, we decide to give life to a being that would not have been born otherwise (or under other forms according to our beliefs). Giving life has never been…
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