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In her professional working life, Pilar was a librarian at the National Library in Madrid, combined with teaching. She wrote a brief history of Toledo for visitors to the city a few months ago. What made this walled city so important? How did it include three religions in one small city? Read on to
Writing
Verena’s professional work involved translating Dutch, German, French and English. At Art in Action, the School’s large arts festival, she and her husband used to organise the section for Russian Arts where Robert developed a love of icons. Later she took the next step in learning how to write icons
Written by Clara Waters Maya Angelou stands out for her compassion and love of humankind.During an interview in the later part of her life Maya Angelou was asked about the task she had set herself before dying. Her immediate reply was, “I want to be a Christian. …To be it. …A kind person. An inclusi
Meditation
If an odyssey is a long journey full of adventures and learning, Babatunde has certainly had one! Read about his life story
Philosophy
Written by Pinar Karaman Kaan There is no written recorded information about Yunus Emre’s life and only his poems survive but it is generally agreed that he lived between 1240 and 1320. He was born in Sarikoy, a village by the Sakarya River, Anatolia, now modern-day Turkey. He lost his father at an
The School
Written by John Hay, a student in attendance of the weekend. The focus of the retreat was the Gayatri mantra. Twenty-two of us met together at Waterperry house on the weekend of the 24 November 2023, near Oxfordshire under the guidance of Warwick and Elena Jessup.
Philosophy And Psychology
Ubuntu is an African name for a universal concept. The term contains a timeless wisdom. The Zulu description is - umuntu ngamuntu ngabantu which translates variously as:“A person is a person through persons.” “Persons depend upon persons to be persons” “I am because you are, you are because we are.
Essay
An excerpt from; Shakespeare - A Renaissance Perennial By Jeremy Nieboer This article consists of a consideration of the treatise by Martin Lings entitled ‘The Secret of Shakespeare’ first published in part in 1965 in ‘Tomorrow’ and then in its full version as an essay in[1]’ 2005.
Philosophy And Psychology
The recently completed mural at the School’s premises at Mandeville Place.
