Saadi Shirazi was a highly influential Persian poet and writer who lived in the 13th century. He is best known today for his works ‘Gulistan’, ‘Bustan’ and for his extensive love poetry (ghazals). Together with Rumi and Hafez, he is considered...
For some love means nothing.. It simply doesn’t exist. It’s just a made up feel-good word to describe mere chemical reactions in the brain. For others, the so called hopeless romantics, life is all about finding love, the right person or your soulmate....
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (1926 – 2004) was an Swiss-American psychiatrist and author who is best commonly known as a pioneer in near-death studies and for her influential book called “On Death and Dying”. She arrived to America in the late 1950’s...
Publius Ovidius Naso, also known as Ovid (43 BCE – 17 ACE) was a Roman poet. Born in 43 BCE in the city Sulmo just outside Rome, during which Rome was still a Republic governed by the Senate. Ovid is most popular for his poetry, most notably Metamorphoses, a...
What’s love got to do with it? Everything, EVERYTHING! Well… maybe not everything but the closest thing I can think of to everything then! Now let us get it straight and clear out our definitions about love, not that love can ever truly be defined. Love, like all...
Mechthild von Magdeburg (c. 1210 – c. 1290) was one of the many female mystics who found her way to distinguish herself in the religiously dynamic era of the 13th century. It was the century of the mendicant orders, the great Gothic cathedrals and the crusades. The...
