The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Saturday March 19th, 2022 – International Client’s Day
The concept of having a holiday that would celebrate clients worldwide and their contribution to various businesses, from multinational corporations to mom and pop convenience stores, originated in Klaipėda, Lithuania, in 2010. It was then and then that someone finally said, “Why not acknowledge our clients? After all, clients are the foundation of every business”, leading to the very first International Client’s Day being celebrated on March 19th, 2010.
Sir Richard Burton: A Gnostic Bridge to Asian Culture by Rene Wadlow
As Edward Rice stresses in his biography of Richard Burton, whose birth anniversary we mark on 19 March, “Burton’s adult life was passed in a ceaseless quest for the kind of secret knowledge he labeled broadly as ‘Gnosis’ by which he hoped to uncover the very source of existence and the meaning of his role on earth.” (1)
Historically, the word ‘gnosis’ means knowledge, a certain interior, intuitive cognition, sometimes called ‘the gnosis of the heart’ by which the ‘awake’ individual is able to understand the transcendental presence within himself. The mystical experience of the gnosis is most often set into myth and folk tales. Burton believed that the same gnosis was in the background of all myths, and he studied Hindu Tantra, Sikhism and Kablalah but his most lasting interest was in Islamic Sufism.
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“Ancient Blue Sky” #poem & #painting by Nikos Laios
“I gaze up through
Green vine leaves
At the Greek sky,
Languid floating
Marbled blue above
The ancient valleys”
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A fistful of cactus #020 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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