28.09.2011
With the liberation of Libya come less happy reports from Amnesty and Physicians for Human Rights of rebels slaughtering scores of black Africans. Arab racism toward black Africans is commonplace, even if it remains a taboo subject.
He sent for this slave girl to see what made her so exceptional. She stood before him with a dignity he had never seen in other slaves.
He asked her, ‘Why is your price so high, young woman? [...]
Those are words worth contemplating, on all sides of the political and religious divide today. We live in a time of bitter division. From our government offices down to our kitchen tables there are [...]
Mentoring, yoga, coaching, self-help texts (now called ‘inspirational books’), mindfulness, meditation, jogging... The proposals for improving our quality of life are so numerous that [...]
Believing is either hospitable or it is not believing. Hospitality is structurally part of believing. Hosting others in oneself is the very essence of believing in God, not a more or less necessary [...]
First: Know the 10 Commandments to fail (Donald R. Keough). So, leave these behaviours
Stop taking risks.
Be inflexible.
Seek to isolate yourself.
Convince yourself of being infallible. [...]
In traditional societies, the transition from childhood to adulthood was seamless, as young people reproduced the ways of working and living of their elders. And only physical deterioration marked [...]
Two thousand years ago, Plutarch, historian, philosopher and priest of the temple of Delphi, asked himself: "Why are the temples of the Gods deserted?" In different words, it is the same [...]
In this age of chatter, noise and consequent confusion, the task of thinking is to introduce clarity, rigour and cleanliness into the mind, and from there into the heart. For this reason, when [...]
The Institute for Civility in Government says that, while politeness is a necessary first step, civility "is about disagreeing without disrespect, seeking common ground as a starting point for [...]
The next morning, Ali set out on foot and walked until he found someone who would employ him for a short time. From that job he went to find another and then another, and so on until he had visited [...]
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