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Interactive Escher

Tribute to Escher in Barcelona Some quotes by M.C. Escher ” I believe that producing pictures, as I do, is almost solely a question of wanting so very much to do it well” ” I could ...

15 h ago

Accra video (teste I)

Obrigado pelas excelentes sugestões postadas em Conversa com leitores 29 maio 2012. Embora eu tenha o maior respeito pelo trabalho dos jornalistas da mídia tradicional, geralmente as matérias a respe...

1 day ago

Twitcam 01/June/2012

2 days ago

Introdução

Em dezembro de 1945, dois irmãos que buscavam um lugar de descanso, encontraram uma urna cheia de papiros em uma caverna na região de Hamra Dom, no Alto Egito. Ao invés de avisarem as autoridades loc...

3 days ago

Love Theme “Blade Runner”

3 days ago

Hymn to Isis ( 3rd or 4th century AD )

(I used the text below as the foreword of my book “Eleven Minutes”) For I am the first and the last I am the venerated and the despised I am the prostitute and the saint I am the wife and...

4 days ago

Twitcam 29/05/2012

4 days ago

Conversa com leitores 29 maio

4 days ago

Xenophobia (comments from my friends)

Xenophobia is defined as “an unreasonable Fear or hatred of foreigners or strangers or of that which is foreign or strange. It comes from the Greek words ξένος (xenos), meaning “stranger,...

6 days ago 2 people like this

The natural order

A very wealthy man asked a Zen master for a text which would always remind him how happy he was with his family. The Zen master took some parchment and, in beautiful calligraphy, wrote: – The f...

26 may 12 1 person likes this

1 MIN READING: the cry of the desert

As soon as he arrived in Marrakesh, Morocco, a missionary decided he would stroll through the desert at the city’s boundary every morning. On his first stroll he noticed a man lying on the sand, care...

24 may 12 1 person likes this

Campbell on himself

Joseph Campbell is another proof that if we are following our dreams, things will come to us in the exact timing. Even so, we do not always have the courage to choose our destiny. Below, some of his ...

22 may 12 2 people like this

The holistic communion

Today, we see signs of society reverting to this sense of ‘oneness’ – but rather spontaneously. And the example of Greek (Athenian) democracy comes to mind because it showed how society is resp...

20 may 12

Inner struggles

I am always struggling with myself, but I am very optimistic in this sense. People are realizing more and more that happiness is freedom, and freedom is to be able to “travel light”, not possessing a...

19 may 12 2 people like this

On a quiet Belgian square…

18 may 12 2 people like this

Cena con 10 amigos de Twitter

Following the challenge posted in 3.000.000 Twitter here is the film of our dinner (each one gives an statement, and I speak in the end) Seguindo o desafio postado em 3.000.000 Twitter, aqui um peque...

16 may 12

In search of my island

When I wrote The Zahir, the main character says: writing is getting lost at sea. It’s discovering your own untold story and trying to share it with others. It’s realizing, when you show it to people ...

16 may 12

Hangout G+ 15/05/2012 (Portugues)

15 may 12

Four topics about fear

by Chandresh Bhardwaj The origin of fear lies in the unknown. Be it the darkness, ghosts, weather calamities or whatever is unknown to the man is feared the most. If you are walking in darkness, you ...

15 may 12 1 person likes this

10 SEC READING: The intelligent servant

EM PORTUGUES Y ESPANOL AQUI > O empregado inteligente / el empleado inteligente When he was staying at an air base in Africa, author Saint-Exupéry passed the hat among his friends because a Moroccan ...

13 may 12 1 person likes this

Twicam, 12 mayo 2012

12 may 12

Twitcam logo depois de entregar manuscrito

12 may 12

The magic moment

POST EN ESPANOL AQUI: El instante mágico POS EM PORTUGUES AQUI: O momento mágico (USA ONLY:”By the River Piedra I sat down and wept” for 0,99 USD Kindle + Nook + iBookstore) Promotion end...

11 may 12

Your children / Sus hijos/ Teus filhos

On Children (by Kahlil Gibran) Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are wit...

11 may 12 1 person likes this

11 minutes of sex

IMPORTANT: in USA, ““Eleven Minutes” is available as an ebook for 0,99 USD till this next Sunday, May 13 in Kindle + Nook + iBookstore ______________________________ _______________ ...

11 may 12

A warrior of light is never predictable

Warriors of light are never predictable. They might dance down the street on their way to work, gaze into the eyes of a complete stranger and speak of love at first sight, or else defend an apparentl...

09 may 12 1 person likes this

Satan sells used objects

Needing to adapt to the new times, Satan decided to get rid of a whole lot of his stock of temptations. He placed an ad in the newspaper and attended his customers all day in his workshop. It was a f...

07 may 12 1 person likes this

Dreams and nightmares

No one will realistically think that you can make a living out of literature in Brazil. I faced many difficulties. When I was young, my parents in a desperate act of love, as they cared for me, sent ...

05 may 12 2 people like this

Um livro pelo preço de uma música

Como é sabido, sempre fui a favor do conteúdo livre na internet. Mas a primeira vez que falei disso, em 2007, foi um Deus-nos-acuda. Como? E de que os autores vão viver? Penso que os escritores que t...

03 may 12

Tracking Amazon: Coelho E-books Dropped to $1, Skyrocket

by Publishers Weekly May 2, 2012 Paulo Coelho, author of The Alchemist and recent supporter of piracy, has come to an agreement with his publisher HarperCollins to drop the prices of 11 of his books ...

02 may 12

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