Edith Hall, a professor of classics at King’s College London, tried astrology, Buddhism, transcendental meditation, psychotropic drugs and ... In the tradition of Alain de Botton, she has written a ...

Daily Mail ran photos of Pitt at a Bono concert on November 13 with Ines de Ramon, a 34-year-old Swiss jewelry professional. Daily Mail claimed it was informed by sources that de Ramon was part of ...

Join the Thanksgiving drive to make a lasting impact. I’m reminded of the philosophical meditation on whether or not there is a sound if a tree falls in a lonely forest … Whether or not there ...

A group of patrons gossip in thick, fast Japanese. They might all know each other or they might just speak to anyone at the bar as if they already know them. The wizened “master” joins in from his per ...

Today, there are over 500 Buddhist centres and meditation sites in the country ... The first thing to understand is that Buddhism is not so much a religion as a philosophical belief system which ...

We just refuse to allow the insuperable problem to take up more of our imagination and opt instead to focus on what can still be improved and enjoyed. This is a philosophy of pessimism rather than of ...