Peace is when I can let go of this: the craving for ego, the longing for the mother’s breast. Peace...
According to Herbert Salzmann, the oldest form of cooperation brings the pyramid into view: someone says where to go. The...
The atmosphere in the room was uncomfortable and charged with tension. People weren’t looking at each other, but were watching each other. There was suspicion and caution in the air. Or also: The mood was exuberant. The atmosphere was warm and open. People smiled and waved to each other. Everyone...
When visiting another country, I show my appreciation for ‹foreign› people and their culture by trying to thank, greet, and...
Humanity has steadily continued to develop its moral consciousness over the past centuries – solidarity, respect for others, human dignity,...
As comrades of fate, whether local or migrated, we have to take on the heavy legacy that the Millennial Empire has left behind after only twelve years. It is the worst legacy survivors have ever inherited, yet it must be faced. Instead of soldiers’ courage, the German now has to...
Midway through a four-week lesson period in a 10th grade trigonometry class, two questions for the assembled students: What grade...
Blackbirds, tits, and finches do not argue about the way they sing. They simply sing and chirp the beauty’s tones....
Many of you surely know the risen Christ by Matthias Grünewald, which belongs to the Isenheim Altarpiece. This being floats, so illuminated in the vault of wholeness that the Roman soldiers turn away, blinded. I used to wonder if you could still be physically intimate with such a being. Actually,...
Recently a friend sent me a poem, the religious hymn ‹Lord of the Dance› by Sydney Carter (The United Methodist...
‹I’m doing my best› wrote a friend as he sat unnerved at home with his children for the tenth day...
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