In Rwanda in 1994, nearly 800,000 people were brutally killed, mostly from the Tutsi minority, over the course of just one hundred days. Today, the same people who committed these horrific acts live among their victims. Journalist Philip Gourevitch described how Rwanda…
Oscar Wilde is attributed to having once said, “The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously—and have somebody find out.” I would underline, “somebody find out,” because our ego always seeks recognition. Is our world…
Today, more than ever, we see how elderly people are being increasingly abandoned. In many cases, their children do not care about them and do not even call. Children today are feeling less and less connection to their parents. Their…
First, it is a strict law in nature that our attitude toward others determines their attitude toward us. It seems very strange, but if we try to make an effort, then we will gradually see that the world depends only…
Diamonds and gold hold value only because people agreed to view them as valuable. They bring a sense of confidence, a feeling of possessing a treasure, but the treasure exists solely in our perception, not in reality. Look at a…
Today, we are reaching a point of a radical re-evaluation of values. What once seemed valuable, which we fought, lived, and died for, and which we tried to preserve and pass on to future generations, is losing its meaning and…
Love is the most powerful force in nature. It creates, generates, gives rise to systems, and sustains life. But why do we call it the “force” of love? In our world, love means attraction. We feel drawn to something that…
Every year, Holocaust Remembrance Day compels us to pause and confront the unbearable pain etched into the Jewish people. Today, as memory fades into history, we must not only mourn but reflect deeply on the causes and lessons of that…
It means that our egoistic nature separates us from the true reality, which is love, bestowal, and connection. Our egoism, the desire to enjoy for personal benefit alone, gives us a false sense of confidence, “false” because it actually isolates…
It is because by doing so the one doing the shaming breaks the most essential law of nature regarding positive human connection. When we make ourselves smaller than others, not wishing to rule over them but to serve them, then…
It means that the human ego develops through cycles of correction, where the details shift, circumstances evolve, but the core remains unchanged. The final outcome of this developmental process is for egoism to transform into altruism, that we will rise…
One should be afraid of an action called sin, not punishment for that action because otherwise you are afraid of being punished. Fear of punishment is egoistic fear, where we are afraid of ourselves being harmed. Spiritual fear, however, is…