Somewhere, I read that Black Lives Matter (BLM) is all about love. I like that. I think it’s true—all kinds...
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Finn Janning, Ph.D., is a Danish, Barcelona-based writer. He practices and teaches mindfulness at a business school for future managers. His most recent publication is the book A Philosophy of Mindfulness - A Journey with Deleuze.
“Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday. I can’t be sure.” These are the opening lines of Albert Camus’s novel The...
Spain: the country closed down two weeks ago—Friday, March 13, to be exact. As an uninvited ‘guest,’ the Coronavirus invites...
There is a photo of my older brother on the shelf behind my desk. It has been taken in a...
The first 10 to 15 years of Jeppe Hein’s artistic career are reminiscent of a mountaineer’s struggle on Mount Everest....
The French philosopher Gilles Deleuze once said: “There is no need to fear or hope, but only to look for...
Did he really do it? Did he ignore Kathryn Mayorga, who several times said “no” and “stop” while he penetrated...
She called at night. I took the phone as if I was expecting the call. She told me that her...
I’m somewhere high among white clouds between Copenhagen and Barcelona, on my way back home to the latter. Suspended at...
Since 2008, I’ve lived in Barcelona, in Catalonia, Spain. My wife is from Barcelona. She’s both Catalan and Spanish, and...
T his year, I left Barcelona looking for alternative ways of getting closer to experiencing life as a cowboy. Or...
“The artist is a seer, a becomer,” wrote the philosopher Gilles Deleuze and the psychiatrist Félix Guattari in their 1996...
“I’m not much interested in ethics or morals. I’m interested in how we experience the world.” – Arne Næss. As...
Mindfulness for everyone Last April, I spent an evening with Jon Kabat-Zinn, the biologist and mindfulness teacher who gave a...
In Leo Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilyich, the main character’s mind tends to wander in both time and space....
It is time for a pause in my teaching, which means that most of the students and I leave the lecture hall for fresh air, coffee, or cigarettes. I go to the canteen and buy a coffee.
