Tag: Fourth

While I succeeded at morning yoga all week, the resting part broke down quickly. Monday morning I headed to my usual morning cafe just up the hill. After counting the steps required to reach this lovely branch of my beloved Copenhagen Coffee Lab, I’ve determined that I climb the same distance ...

Ancient Indian tradition views old age as the pinnacle of a lifelong rising of fulfillment and happiness, ending in spiritual liberation — not a long, steady decline into decrepitude and death. In ancient India, this is called the four stages of life, or the four asramas. It’s fun ...

The fourth wall is a concept that emerged in stage plays. Normally a play has three walls that the audience is looking onto. The fourth wall is a wall invisible to the audience that they get to look through but to the actors in the play, the audience is not there; hence the fourth wall. The fourt...

TIME is not real. It is a man-made construct developed by us, humans. It assists us in distinguishing between the present and past tense, according to an equally astonishing and perplexing notion. Time is an illusion created by human memory; everything that has ever been and will ever be is happe...