Going deeper

FOURTH POST ON THOMAS MOORE’S CARE OF THE SOUL: Jung equates the unconscious with the soul, and so when we try to live fully consciously in an intellectually predictable world, protected from all mysteries and comfortable with conformity, we lose our everyday opportunities for the soulful life. The intellect wants to know; the soul likes…

Music for a new day

Norman Lebrecht neatly described Daniil Trifonov as “A pianist for the rest of our lives”. He might not be wrong: Daniil Trifonov was born in Nizhny Novgorod on 5 March 1991.

art as propaganda –

– on behalf of the good: Art is a living resource for our heart.   Mark Rothko: You’ve got sadness in you, I’ve got sadness in me – and my works of art are places where the two sadnesses can meet, and therefore both of us need to feel less sad. Richard Long: highly irregular…