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D years a mystical tale of 13th century Farid Ud-Din Attar tells us how the hoopoe has decided one day to bring all the birds to invite them to a long journey, after which they must meet the Simurgh, the king of birds. This adventure leads them through seven valleys seven spiritual places, which are

In . . . recent years, modern science has validated a number of teachings and beliefs rooted in ancient wisdom that, up until now, had been trusted but unproven empirically. A full 55 pages of Arianna Huffington’s new book, Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder,

Read poetry because of the times you have stopped to look at rain fall through the light of a street lamp and wished you knew the words that made it what it was. Read poetry because you are lonely and full of wild abandon. Read poetry so when you are no longer lonely and are

In order to help himself remember the digits of pi, David Macdonald decided to turn each digit into a note on the A minor scale to play on the piano. He claims that now he can hear the melody in his head, which allows him to recall the numbers in order. He included a harmony with his

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A Chinese proverb says, “a book is like a garden carried in your pocket.” Jorge Luis Borges, who wrote the short story “The Garden of the Forking Paths” would agree. In his story, a professor and a scholar attempt to decode a cryptic note left by a literary ancestor, who bequeaths “to several futures (not