This month, the U.S. Surgeon General published an advisory on loneliness titled “Our Epidemic of Loneliness and Isolation.” According to the advisory, approximately half of U.S. adults experienced loneliness daily, even before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, which only…
Einstein did nothing to benefit us. Moreover, he helped build the atom bomb, and told us that there are properties in our world that we cannot understand. It would have been better if he and the other nuclear physicists had…
We criticize others as a result of our egoism, which makes us want to enjoy at the expense of others, and which thus makes us enjoy viewing others as smaller and lesser than ourselves. If we make no changes to…
To understand that it is just anxiety and not reality. We should look into what we have the ability to do today, understanding that any anxieties about the future are about what might happen later, and accordingly we should calm…
We can overcome stress and anxiety by developing more and more positive connection, friendship and closeness to each other. Otherwise, these and other negative sensations will increasingly disturb us. If we create small societies in which we develop connections of…
True freedom is freedom from our egoistic nature, where we are enslaved to the desire to enjoy for self-benefit alone in every one of our intentions. When we become freed from our egoistic intention for self-benefit, we attain true freedom:…
We can reduce overconsumption and overproduction only if we change ourselves—to start feeling why life is truly worth living. We cannot change the world, but we can change ourselves to be content and happy with life’s essentials. We would then…
In Australia, a 100-year-old woman shared what she considered the secret to her long life, that longevity stems from a calm attitude to any tumultuous life events. She recommends not holding onto grudges and to live in the here and…
“𝘛𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘢 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥 𝘢𝘤𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥’𝘴 𝘸𝘢𝘺.” – 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘣𝘴 22:6. There is also a noteworthy quote by Swiss teacher and publicist Adolphe Ferrière that explains how we fail to follow this principle, i.e. “𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘰𝘭 𝘢𝘴…
Following the wave of terror attacks, the ongoing demonstrations against (and for) the judicial reform, and the barrage of interviews in the media warning that Israel is on a precipice, there has been a sharp increase in calls to emergency…
Humanity has to acknowledge that it has developed a corrupt society with hostilities and collisions in its connections. Today, we have to undergo a self-examination and ask ourselves serious questions about how and why we live: What are we living…
Pain is our body’s reaction to all kinds of bodily disruptions. It warns of danger and makes us act—to move toward pleasure and away from pain, to diagnose the cause of the pain, to reach conclusions and to advance in…