Sacrifice is an inner state experienced by everyone undergoing spiritual development. What do we sacrifice? We sacrifice our egoism, i.e. our desire to enjoy for self-benefit alone, or in other words, we sacrifice our nature on the inanimate, vegetative and…
We can benefit from a crisis if we understand its true cause and how we heal the world through it. Otherwise, we cannot say that we benefit from a crisis. At their core, all crises we endure emerge from negative…
Yes, we have fate. That is, we live in a predetermined reality. We each have different fates that move us through life’s various states at differing rates. For instance, some people live basic lives, doing nothing much more than working…
There are numerous examples of how music and songs are used in education in order to let students absorb the material more easily. Moreover, by learning various subjects through music, the students themselves learn how to teach others, their next…
On what basis would love arise if there were no hatred? What kind of love could there be if there were no rejection? What would love manifest upon? Every one of our qualities and feelings of life, ourselves and others…
𝘈𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘭𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘴 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘦𝘹𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘨𝘭𝘰𝘣𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺, 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘸𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘭 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘧𝘶𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘤𝘭𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘦𝘴? The short answer is that we cannot deal with them unless we take care of nature’s inner balance. We live in a tightly-closed…
Holocaust Remembrance Day is a time to reflect on the past, and how modern-day circumstances prove that the ominous specter of antisemitism didn’t simply die with World War II. Indeed, Holocaust survivor Manfred Goldberg, recently stated that social media had…
January 27 is the International Holocaust Remembrance Day. In recent years, there has been a sharp resurgence of antisemitism, which seems to be accelerating. The Jewish Agency’s Fighting Antisemitism page states, “With violent instances of antisemitism on the rise across…
One of my students told me that 100 companies in the UK recently switched to a permanent four-day work week for their employees without loss of pay, and that they hope to be a vanguard of a major change in…
The tumultuous protests against the planned reforms to Israel’s judicial system seem to be tearing Israeli society apart. Prominent newspapers around the world have not only reported the plan to reform Israel’s justice system, but have actually taken sides. Thomas…
The will to dominate is at the very foundation of our nature, and war is thus a part of our lives. However, it is counterproductive to our very own interests. If we view humanity from aside, then we see that…
On one hand, the ultra-rich are driven by their own power and wealth, but on the other hand, they are motivated by a challenge—that they wish to see a positive result from their lives. If we act for humanity’s benefit,…