Each Sunday-morning service began with 30 minutes of prayerful singing described by the church as ‘worship,’ and every service ended in a call for people ‘who need prayer’ to come up front to get prayer. Indeed, there was a ‘prayer team’ chosen by and trained within the church, and as …
One’s very own kama muta in an Oslo café:He is a barista in an Oslo café that serves what may be the best coffee in the world. He has worked in retail service since he was 14, beginning part time in a cheese shop. Whenever a customer is especially thoughtful …
Today we have a moving moment which represents a rather personal one for me. I stumbled upon a video capturing the development of a human – “Portrait of Lotte, 0 to 20 years”; made by the Dutch artist and filmmaker Frans Hofmeester. When watching it I was deeply moved but …
After Martin Luther King Jr.’s address last week, let us turn to something similar. Similarly strong in its idea of connection: Love poetry. “Imagine,” Alan Page Fiske writes “that Shakespeare had written this poem to you:” [1] If I should think of love I’d think of you, your arms uplifted, Tying …
One of the foremost examples of kama muta evocation by English speech is surely Martin Luther King Jr.’s address at the Lincoln Memorial in Washingto D.C.. The conclusion of the speech were the following passages: “I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons …
Today you get to read a poem carrying the meaning of kama muta – feeling oneness. It is in the very language the expression kama muta (“moved by love”) is in, Sanskrit: When he comes back to my arms I’ll make him feel what nobody ever felt everywhere me vanishing …
For today’s most moving moment we have something different. We have a joint cluster of moving moments, so to speak. We borrow from Alan Fiske’s narrative [1] for it: “China Central television, also state-owned, is the largest broadcaster in China. Since 2002, with the sponsorship of the Industrial and Commercial Bank …
We think this quote can stand for itself! “The other day, like dolphins came and swum right up right up to the surf board and we were like super close to them and you could see them just playing and having a fun time and they were just like jumping and some …
In Homer’s Odyssey there is a scene where the author tries to capture what “father and son” kama muta could look like: In this scene Odysseus’s son Telemachos has long been away searching for Odysseus: “[…] his beloved son stood in the forecourt. Amazed the swineherd started up, and the vessels, where …
Today we will show you the juxtaposition of two concepts. They are not only somewhat distinct, but completely different. However, there is a link between them. A stopwatch: “Every year, at Christmas, my mother and I bring out my great uncle’s stopwatch tot time the baking go cookies. The digital …