by Alma | May 17, 2020 | Alma stories, Posts English
Being locked down at home during the Covid-19 epidemic, I had a lot of time to clean forgotten corners of my house. One afternoon I found myself sitting on the basement floor and going through old photos, immersed in memories. I halted at a picture of my ex-boyfriend...
by Alma | May 10, 2020 | Alma stories, Posts English
It happened a few months ago while I was on one of my business trips and had to kill time at the airport in Rome. I walked into a bookstore and browsed through some books here and there, when I found myself immersed in a book of the philosopher Gabriel Marcel. I am...
by Alma | Apr 28, 2020 | Alma stories, Posts English
I knew your husband would die sooner than later, being a hopeless smoker all his life, having had already a heart attack, in addition to other health problems. You knew it as well, and so did he. He seemed to be more worried about leaving you behind than about his own...
by Alma | Apr 14, 2020 | Alma stories, Posts English
Marcus Aurelius (121-180 AD): A Stoic philosopher and Roman Emperor. Think often about the speed in which things pass by and disappear, both natural things and artificial things. Because the material world is like a river in a never-ending flow, and the activities of...
by Ran Lahav | Mar 31, 2020 | Posts English, Ran
“I worked so hard to improve myself, but I am still so imperfect! Yesterday I yelled at the neighbor, and today I ate like a pig …” I call it THE COCKROACH PRINCIPLE: One small cockroach in a wonderful soup makes the entire soup disgusting. But the opposite isn’t...
by Ran Lahav | Mar 13, 2020 | Posts English, Ran
What can Deep Philosophy give us these days, when the world faces an epidemic, uncertainties, fears, and disruption? Deep Philosophy cannot solve medical problems, but it can give us an inner center to face the situation, and to face life. It is now especially...
