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		<title>You can dissolve all your fears when you realize how little you really need to lead a blissful life</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Epicurus’s core teaching in a nutshell: “You can dissolve all your fears when you realize how little you really need to lead a blissful life.” To encapsulate a felling or a thought in as few words as possible: this endeavor engendered the literary genre of the Japanese haiku. It also produced the famous four-fold cure [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Transient Wisconsin Moai</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As I stepped out of the door to start my morning walk a Wisconsin moai greeted me. It  - or he? -is very much like his big brothers on the Easter Island but much smaller and extremely cooler as it is made of snow turning into ice – and probably into water if the unseasonally [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Transcultural pictures</title>
		<description><![CDATA[About a week ago I started taking half-hour walks in the morning, sometimes with my son. We are both transcultural travelers and therefore our sources of entertainment will never dry up. The last two days we took our camera to capture aspects of the American suburban culture that in another cultural context might look or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stress-freedom.net/2012/01/transcultural-pictures/</link>
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		<title>Ravishing Russian Choir</title>
		<description><![CDATA[During my early morning walk I heard Russian choir on radio WORT http://www.wort-fm.org/ . It was ravishing, it made my day. It turned out what I actually heard was ‘ ‘Ravishingly Russian’  http://www.msrcd.com/catalog/cd/MS1311 &#160;]]></description>
		<link>http://stress-freedom.net/2012/01/ravishing-russian-choir/</link>
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		<title>CHREMOLATRY: a new word for an old disease</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every December I spent in Western Europe or North America I was trying to find a diagnostic word that would describe the epidemic disease that befalls the inhabitants of these regions. They start buying things in unimaginably enormous quantities, wrap them up and give them each other, or keep them for themselves. Things they do [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stress-freedom.net/2011/12/chremolatry-a-new-diagnostic-word-for-an-old-disease/</link>
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		<title>misquoting Aristotle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No Epicurean is, should, or can be a great fan of Aristotle but we all are in the habit of quoting him. For instance on what he said about habit:  “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit.&#8221; I am sorry to admit that I am no exception [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stress-freedom.net/2011/12/misquoting-aristotle/</link>
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		<title>“From Pain to Pleasure: The Proven Pathway to Happiness” now as paperback, too</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Finally, I can accommodate the wish of those friends of mine who demanded a paperback book they can lay back with on the sofa and read leisurely, instead of having to sit in front of their computer, or to print out the eBook. My friends can buy the little funny Epicurean happiness guidance “From Pain [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stress-freedom.net/2011/12/%e2%80%9cfrom-pain-to-pleasure-the-proven-pathway-to-happiness%e2%80%9d-now-as-paperback-too/</link>
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		<title>Happiness – schooled?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Greek philosophers defined “happiness” as  “the consequence of a deed and they drew two conclusions from this insight: -          first: if happiness consists of the fulfilling of human possibilities then there must be broadly applicable rules for attaining it. -          second: in this case we can “learn happiness”  by following these rules. They stressed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stress-freedom.net/2011/11/happiness-%e2%80%93-schooled/</link>
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		<title>Greenblatt on the Epicurean Lucretius and the Epicurean Jefferson</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Stephen Greenblatt, the author of &#8220;The Swerve&#8221; talking about the Epicurean attitude to pleasure, about  Lucretius&#8217;s poem and about the Epicurean Thomas Jefferson in an interview with Charlie Rose: the full interview (23 min):  http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/11977 a 5 minutes cut: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DOv4KPkUDY &#160;]]></description>
		<link>http://stress-freedom.net/2011/11/greenblatt-on-the-epicurean-lucretius-and-the-epicurean-jefferson/</link>
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		<title>how to explain to your kids that they are aliens</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My legal status is currently almost congruent with my cultural identity. In Romania, where I was born and raised as a Hungarian, I was not an alien. I was part of a minority. In Germany I became a German citizen after relinquishing my Romanian citizenship, so I was not an alien, but a Spätaussiedler, an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://stress-freedom.net/2011/10/how-to-explain-to-your-kids-that-they-are-aliens/</link>
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