Indeed, many countries, including those where new cases of the coronavirus are being regularly reported, have started reopening their economies. Why must the economy be reopened, especially considering that a cure for the virus has yet to be found? The…
The spiritual lesson of the coronavirus is that in order to live optimal lives, we need to develop different kinds of relationships, ones based on acknowledging our tight interdependence. When we realize how much we depend on each other, we…
Our future actions and dealings need to follow two main basic conditions: That they are essential to our lives, i.e. where life’s essentials are everything that makes our lives comfortable and qualitative. That they cause no harm to other people…
There are fundamentally two kinds of people in our world: egoists and altruists. Egoists do everything out of a calculation for personal benefit, and need to see justifiable compensation, like more money or an improved social status, for any act…
The coronavirus came to teach us about how much we depend on each other, and thus, how we need to take more responsibility in our attitudes to each other. If we look at major events in world history, including the…
The coronavirus has reeled in a new time with many changes, and those changes will require a new form of culture as well. As the coronavirus period with its social distancing and stay-at-home orders made us reexamine what is essential…
Human development is the development of positive connections upon our innate differences and divisions. Prior to the existence of humans, connections formed on inanimate, vegetative and animate levels that paved the way for humans to develop and connect. For instance,…
The economy needs a major impact because it has been failing to provide for our needs. Instead, we have been providing for the economy’s “needs.” The coronavirus pandemic has illuminated the question about what is essential and nonessential in life.…
The human ego is seen as bad when it is overblown, causing people to exploit, manipulate and abuse each other in the name of pleasure. Due to the ego causing so much division and conflict in and between societies, many…
The world is still learning from the coronavirus pandemic a hard lesson in how much we all depend on each other. It has shown us how much our health depends on other people maintaining personal hygiene and social distancing conditions.…
As we start to reopen the economy, we see an anticipated intensification of the coronavirus unfolding—its infecting more and more children. In the United States, United Kingdom and Spain, children are getting infected and dying. As we continue the coronavirus…
The coronavirus is teaching us all to recognize our global interdependence. Before the coronavirus, we were in a world of vicious egoistic competition, where the more we could exploit others, the more we could profit. Today, however, we all depend…