We live in an interesting time. Materially, everything is the best it’s ever been—we are freer, healthier and wealthier than any people in human history. Yet, somehow everything seems to be irreparably and horribly f*cked—the planet is warming, governments are failing, economies are collapsing, and everyone is perpetually offended on Twitter. At this moment in history, when we have access to technology, education and communication our ancestors couldn’t even dream of, so many of us come…
Written in 1914 but not published until 1925, a year after Kafka’s death, The Trial is the terrifying tale of Josef K., a respectable bank officer who is suddenly and inexplicably arrested and must defend himself against a charge about which he can get no information. Whether read as an existential tale, a parable, or a prophecy of the excesses of modern bureaucracy wedded to the madness of totalitarianism, The Trial has resonated with chilling truth for generations of readers.
To make the journey into The Power of Now we will need to leave our analytical mind and its false created self, the ego, behind. Although the journey is challenging, Eckhart Tolle offers simple language and a question and answer format to show us how to silence our thoughts and create a liberated life.
على مرِّ العصور،عّدَّ الناسُ علي بن أبي طالب؛ ابن عم النبي محمد صل الله عليه وسلم، وزوج ابنته فاطمة الزهراء، وأحد العشرة المبشرين بالجنة، ورابع الخلفاء الراشدين، من أكثر الناس علمًا وفقهًا ودرايةً. وقد اشتهر بالعدل والفصاحة والحكمة. فكان قاضيًا عادلًا، وخطيبًا مُفوّهًا، تقطر كلماته بلاغةً وأدبًا وبيانًا، وقد جمع العلماء ما أُثر عنه من أشعار جميلة، ورسائل بليغة، وخطب مؤثرة. ومواعظ مفيدة. يجمع هذا الكتاب الثمين مختارات من أجمل أقواله وحكمه المأثورة.
هذا الكتاب ليس عن الديانات، ولكن عن الحضارة باتساع مكوناتها, وتحديدًا عن طرح حضاري جديد. وهذا الطرح يحتاج إلى.. بطل! وهذا البطل هو.. انت. أنت المعجزة التي هي المكوّن الأساسي والرئيسي لكل الحضارات. قرار تفعيل معجزتك من عدمه هو قرارك أنت. قرار تغلبك على الوثن الأعظم – النفس – وسيطرتك على تجليها في الإيجو الشخصي – "أنا" – والإيجو الجماعي- "نحن" – هو مسؤوليتك أنت. هناك منظومة حضارية في طور التكوين الآن، مساهمتك في تكوينها يتطلب أن تستدعي شجاعتك وتشحذ همتك وتحرر إرادتك، يستدعي انفتاحك وتعاونك…
Two brilliant existential novels from one of the titans of Russian literature. Notes from Underground is the dystopian tale of the Underground Man, a retired civil servant living in St Petersburg, who criticises western philosophy and contemporary society. The Double is the story of Golyadkin, who on a bitter snowy night encounters a stranger who looks exactly like him. They become friends, but Golyadkin gradually realises that, unlike himself, his double is socially successful, and he…
This strange and lovely parable, written as much for adults as for children, and beautifully illustrated by the author, has become a classic of our time. The narrator, an air pilot, tells how, having made a forced landing in the Sahara Desert, he meets the little prince. The wise and enchanting stories the prince tells about the planet where he lives with three volcanoes and a haught flower, about the other planets and their rulers, and about his fight with the bad seeds, make him an…
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