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What Really Happens During A 10-Day Yoga Retreat

Carolyn O'Donnell | Posted 05.15.2013 | Travel
Read More: Chinese New Year, Noble Silence, SN Goenka, Vipassana Meditation, Retreat, Malaysia, Aversion, Jean-Paul Sartre, Craving, Travel News
Carolyn O'Donnell

A 10-day Vipassana meditation retreat with Noble Silence, 4 a.m. starts and 10 hours of meditation daily was never going to be easy, but combining it with communal living and random explosions probably made it even harder.

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Choose Your Favorite Philosopher

Nick Kolakowski | Posted 04.30.2013 | Books
Read More: How to Become an Intellectual, Greeks, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jean-Paul Sartre, Charles Darwin, Aristotle, Paul Ryan Ayn Rand, Books News
Nick Kolakowski

Aristotle: This ancient Greek philosopher argued for the primacy of rational thought over animal instincts, and moderation over hedonism. Ideal for: Drivers who slow at yellow lights.

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Pasolini at 90 at MoMA

Norman MacAfee | Posted 12.13.2012 | Arts
Read More: Eisenstein, Gospel According to Matthew, Pope John XXIII, Simone De Beauvoir, Piero Della Francesca, Missa Luba, Museum of Modern Art, Pasolini, Arabian Nights, Jean-Paul Sartre, Arts News
Norman MacAfee

Pasolini became world renowned in 1964 with the opening of his film about Jesus: The Gospel According to Matthew. It was reviewed in Life magazine, at that time America's major weekly picture magazine.

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Claude Lanzmann's Memoir - 'The Patagonian Hare'

Michael Roth | Posted 04.30.2012 | College
Read More: Simone De Beauvoir, Claude Lanzmann, Washington Post, Jean-Paul Sartre, Shoah, Holocaust, World War II, Claude Lanzmann Memoir, World War Two, College News
Michael Roth

The Patagonian Hare is full of Lanzmann's cloying self-regard, but we accept it for the single reason that he created Shoah, his 1985 documentary about the Nazi war against the Jews, one of the masterworks of cinema.

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Laura Paull

When Is The Past Not The Past? In The Hands Of 'Shoah' Director Claude Lanzmann

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Paull | Posted 03.16.2012 | Fifty
Read More: Shoah, The Patagonian Hare, Holocaust Museum, The Holocaust, Claude Lanzmann, Simone De Beauvoir, Tete-a-Tete Simone De Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre, Regina Longo, Documentary Film, Jean-Paul Sartre, French Films, Jewish Community Center San Francisco, Fifty News

The past, the past, le passé. Past perfect, past imperfect, passé composé...The past weighs heavy on 87-year-old Claude Lanzmann, director of the i...

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Is That All There Is? Rugged Indvidualism

Dimitri Hamlin | Posted 05.14.2012 | Religion
Read More: John F. Kennedy, American Exceptionalism, Turner Thesis, Rugged Conformists, Walter Huston, Cooperstown, Amish, Frederick Jackson Turner, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Whiskey Rebellion, Theodore Roosevelt, Manhood at Harvard, Alexis De Tocqueville, Henry David Thoreau, James Fenimore Cooper, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone, Gary Cooper, Jean-Paul Sartre, Great Depression, Herbert Hoover, Humphrey Bogart, Emma Lazarus, William James, B. Traven, Trust, The Moral Equivalent of War, Kim Townsend, Natty Bumppo, Barack Obama, John Huston, Rugged Individualism, Hawkeye, Francis Fukuyama, High Noon, Reading Terminal Market, Self-Reliance, Autarky, Deerslayer, Mind, Religion News
Dimitri Hamlin

It's a good thing that, when push comes to shove, we're really not rugged individualists. I'm thinking that it's almost time for us to accept who we are.

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Cultivating Mindful Work Relationships

BJ Gallagher | Posted 04.30.2012 | Business
Read More: Dealing With Difficult People, Teamwork, Workplace, Work, Woody Allen, Collaboration, Business, Buddhism, Difficult Bosses, Buddha, Jean-Paul Sartre, Customer Service, Business News
BJ Gallagher

Isn't it funny how everyone seems to think that someone else is the problem? And yet, many people who work from home complain that the thing they miss the most is other people!

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Men of a Certain Age Combines Insight With Comedy

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 08.31.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Relationship Drama, Lisa Gay Hamilton, Scott Bakula, Tnt, Feminism, Mid-Life Crisis, Andre Braugher, Humanism, Mike Royce, Drama, Ray Romano, Men of a Certain Age, Entertainment News, Jean-Paul Sartre, Comedy, Peabody Award, Entertainment News
Marcia G. Yerman

From the first episode, I was hooked. Not only did I get psychological moments of revelatory truth in a weekly show, I also got belly laughs that made my sides hurt.

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Bombs, Comics And Sartre: Haiku Reviews

Posted 06.22.2011 | Arts
Read More: D*Face, Peter Frank, Theatre, Adolf Fleischmann, Tennessee Williams, George Heymont, Film, Jean-Paul Sartre, Painting, Haiku Reviews, San Francisco, Slidepollajax, Los Angeles, New York, Arts News

HuffPost Arts' Haiku Reviews is a weekly feature where invited critics review exhibitions and performances in short form. Some will be in the traditio...

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When The Walls Come Tumbling Down

Avraham Burg | Posted 06.01.2011 | Religion
Read More: Israel, Jews and Anti-Semitism, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Jewish Identity, Judaism, Jewish Peoplehood, Juan Williams, Nazi Germany, Holocaust Mentality, State of Israel, Peace in the Middle East, Zionism and Anti-Semitism, A.b. Yehoshua, Anti-Semetism, Post-Anti-Semitism, Ghetto Mentality, Jean-Paul Sartre, Origins of Zionism, Israeli Identity, Religion News
Avraham Burg

The time has come to take the next step and ask whether we can in fact exist at all without an external enemy, without anti-Semitism.

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WATCH: A Rare Look At Soviet-Era Political Cartoons

George Heymont | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
Read More: Joseph Brodsky, Dmitri Shostakovich, Gary Larson, George W. Bush, Stalin Thought of You, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Leon Trotsky, Dennis the Menace, A Room and a Half, Kevin McNeer, Pravda, Blondie, The Little King, Calvin and Hobbes, Adolf Hitler, Jean-Paul Sartre, Soyuz Multifilm Animation Studio, Ernest Hemingway, Pogo, Vladimir Brylyahkov, Berkeley Breathed, Pearls Before Swine, Get Fuzzy, Nobel Prize for Literature, Boris Efimov, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Bill Watterson, Russian State Film Archives, Andrey Khrzhanovskiy, Bloom County, Brezhnev, Poet Laureate, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Cartoon Art, Mikhail Koltsov, Ferd?Nand, Film, Arts News
George Heymont

Using rarely seen footage from the Russian State Film Archives, documentarian Kevin McNeer has produced a fascinating documentary about the late Soviet political cartoonist and propaganda artist Boris Efimov.

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Is Helen Thomas Anti-Semitic? Her Recent Interview on CNN Raises Disturbing Questions

Sheldon Filger | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Anti-Semitism, Jean-Paul Sartre, Israel, Helen Thomas, Poland, Media News
Sheldon Filger

No persecution of Jews in Poland since World War II? No doubt, Helen Thomas will consider any questioning of her comments on CNN as an attempt to censor her criticism of Israel.

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On Nénette

Michael Vazquez | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
Read More: Zoos, Marina Abramovi?, Jean-Paul Sartre, Film, Animals in Captivity, Alain Resnais, Michael Vazquez, Mon Oncle D'Amérique, Nénette, Existentialism, Being and Nothingess, Arts News
Michael Vazquez

On Nénette By Michael Vazquez Marina Abramović, stare your heart out...As befits our gawking society, if you're in New York City, you have 48 hour...

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Can America Again Become An Imagine-Nation?

Michael Sigman | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Roger Nygard, West Egg, Independence Day, Afghanistan, Iraq, Gulf Oil Spill, Jean-Paul Sartre, Mark Twain, Facebook, The Nature of Existence, The Great Gatsby, Great Neck, Apple, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Healthy Living News
Michael Sigman

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. -- Mark Twain A woman I once worked with believed in a world in which everyone ...

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Influences: Angelic and Demonic

Barbara Probst Solomon | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Jean Malaquais, Jane Austen, Michael Lennon, Zola, Mary Mccarthy, Picasso, Helen Mirren, J.D. Salinger, Aleksandar Hemon, Blanche DuBois, Jill Scott, Jean-Paul Sartre, John Updike, Philip Roth, Humphrey Bogart, Mma Ramotswe, The Three Weissmanns of Westport, Otto Abetz, Saul Bellow, The Beat Generation, Emma Bovary, Sense and Sensibility, Norman Mailer, Dreyfus Affair, Henri Matisse, Marcel Proust, Tolstoy, William Faulkner, Celine, Cathleen Schine, Baudelaire, Petain, Malraux, Huysmans, Stendahl, Simenon, Gides, Dannecker, Flaubert, Laval, Books News
Barbara Probst Solomon

Salinger gave my generation a permission to write about our lives, our very ordinary adolescent times. He gave us our voice, our right to be serious in our own postwar, perhaps over-privileged, tones.

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A New Year's Resolution for France- Put Albert Camus In The Pantheon

Eric Ehrmann | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Bill Clinton, Pantheon, Central Intelligence Agency, Cia, Alexander Shelepin, Albert Camus, Nicholas Sarkozy, Kgb, Andrei Sakharov, Marcel Cerdan, Frank Wisner Jr., Frank Wisner, Congress for Cultural Freedom, Hillary Clinton, Encounter, Jean-Paul Sartre, Stalinism, World News
Eric Ehrmann

While the left snivels over the literary Camus, the compte rendu on the author is that of an individual who touched the world in an effort to promote the universal rights of man implicit in the French social contract.

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Sleeping With Your Guru

Stanton Peele | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Naziism, Herbert Marcus, Theodor Adorno, Nazis, Hannah Arendt, Jean-Paul Sartre, Martin Heidegger, Existentilism, Relationships, Facebook, Healthy Living News
Stanton Peele

Brilliant, talented, successful women sacrifice their lives and dignity to male mentors. What are they thinking?

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Should the French Socialist Party Die?

Bernard-Henri Lévy | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Albert Camus, Bernard Kouchner, Socialist Party, Jean Paul Sartre, The Left, Nouvel Observateur, May 1968 France, Socialism, French Socialist Party, French Left, World News
Bernard-Henri Lévy

Am I right to say of today's Socialist Party that it is the "large corpse falling backward" that Jean-Paul Sartre has already diagnosed?

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Writing Under the Influence, Living Under the Influence

David Finkle | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Literature, Exile and the Kingdom, Elizabeth Hawes, Philosophy, Built of Books, The Stranger, Thomas Wright, The Plague, Albert Camus, A Happy /Death, Biography, Oscar's Books, Philosophy of the Absurd, The First Man, Entertainment, Camus--a Romance, Memoir, Existentialism, Jean-Paul Sartre, Healthy Living News
David Finkle

Although her title is an eyebrow-raiser, Elizabeth Hawes knows what she's doing. With Camus, a Romance, her new and unconventional work, she isn't simply writing a biography.

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How a Dog Taught me the Dharma

Jay Michaelson | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Anger, God, Ram Dass, Meditation, Kabbalah, Dharma, Buddhism, Jean-Paul Sartre, Healthy Living News
Jay Michaelson

Why was I angry at my fellow yogis for what their conditioning caused them to do? And, perhaps even more importantly, why be angry at myself for being frustrated?

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Branson On Stalking Sartre, Joining The Mile High Club, And Marrying A Google Guy

Details | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Richard Branson, Space, Virgin Mobile, Billionaires, Larry Page, Virgin Atlantic, Jean-Paul Sartre, Google, Business News

In this month's issue of Details magazine, Richard Branson, billionaire and renegade mogul, sounds off on a number of different issues. On his early...

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Fear Of Faith

Arianna Huffington | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Mind.Body.Soul, Faith, Spirituality, Fear of Dying, Bernard Levin, Religions, Fear of Spirituality, Fear of Faith, William Barrett, Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism, On Becoming Fearless, How to Be Fearless, Healthy Living News
Arianna Huffington

In the twentieth century, the response to fear-filled religiosity has been atheism and fear-filled alienation from all things spiritual. Alienation ma...

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