It’s easy to think the world is getting worse and worse by the day. Just watch the news or any other current affairs program in the media. The media focuses on “newsworthy” single events, and single events are often bad — plane crashes, terrorist attacks, natural disasters, wars, and murders. Positive developments, on the other hand, […]
Yugen is a Japanese word that sits at the core of the appreciation of beauty and art in Japan. It values the power to evoke, rather that the ability to state directly. Zeami Motokiyo, a 14th century Japanese actor and playwright, described yugen thus: To watch the sun sink behind a flower-clad hill. To wander […]
The most important thing that myths teach us is that anything is possible. And the one story within all the great mythological stories is called The Hero’s Journey — the story about the person who goes out and does great deeds on behalf of the group, the tribe, the community. And so our parents bought […]
