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The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben

Feeling, emotions and communication are not just human and some higher animal distinctions, trees do have something like a nervous system and so they react and talk. In The Hidden ...
Forest Bathing by Dr Quing Li: BETTER MIND, MOOD AND HEALTH FROM THE FOREST

Forest Bathing by Dr Quing Li: BETTER MIND, MOOD AND HEALTH FROM THE FOREST

The Japanese mindfulness practice shinrin-yoku, known in the West as forest bathing, fascinates scientists as much as wellness devotees. Like with anything enhancing our health and happiness, the literature on ...
SILENCE In the Age of Noise: meeting the experience of Erling Kagge

SILENCE In the Age of Noise: meeting the experience of Erling Kagge

The phone is ringing, alerts blinking and vibrating, buzzer banging, cars growling, and neighborhood construction drills into our lives constantly activated through civilisation's disruptive sounds. We get quite upset by ...
philosophy and poetry

Creativity and Taoism: A Study of Chinese Philosophy, Art and Poetry by Chung-yuan Chang

Truth is timeless. Creativity and Taoism was originally published half a century ago, yet its newest edition published by the London-based Singing Dragon timely reminds us how ancient Chinese philosophy ...
LUST: Desire judged by the unfree minds

LUST: Desire judged by the unfree minds

Rumi, the adored Persian mystic, mused on the purpose of desire. Before him, most Eastern philosophies and religious dogmas entertained the trade offs of lust. Taoist, Hindu, Buddhist, Christian, Jewish, ...
Haruki Murakami Men Without Women: lessons from love, solitude, and the everyday life

Haruki Murakami Men Without Women: lessons from love, solitude, and the everyday life

Men Without Women is a collection of seven short stories embarking on insightful cruises where solitude takes over a male character's life. As we spend more time alone today - ...
seasonal healthy vegetables

Nobu's Vegetarian Cookbook

Nobu Matsuhisa, world's most known Japanese chef, is open to vegetarians. His fame did not spark into global consciousness from Japan, but Beverly Hills, where Nobu's first restaurant Matsuhisa casually rolls ...
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The River of Consciousness by Oliver Sacks: Contingency of science and the balance of all life

In The River of Consciousness, the late author, neurologist and physician Oliver Sacks puzzles an intellectual reader with his cross-science view of human perception. Fascinated with Darwin, Freud, James, and ...
IKIGAI The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life

IKIGAI The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life

Ikigai can be translated as life’s mission and understood as the reason for waking up every morning. The Spanish authors Hector Garcia and Francesc Miralles paired their knowhow and skills ...

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