Makes you think…
The Universe has as many different centres as there are living beings in it. Each of us is…
Month: August 2011
The Still Face
Humans are social beings. We’re not the only ones on the planet but we most definitely belong to…
Suffering…what is it good for?
Evil causes suffering and evil is preventable, but even in a paradisiacal world without evil, suffering would still exist.…
Mind the (Income) Gap
The Spirit Level : Why Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better – a controversial book by Richard Wilkinson and Kate…
Chaotic Butterflies
In ordinary life chaos means disorder – random, disorganised confusion. In science it means something entirely different –…
An Answer to Evil
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear…
God couldn’t be everywhere…
God couldn’t be everywhere, so He created mothers – or so the Jewish proverb goes. Mothers like, Las…
Ubuntu
The Nigerian writer, Chris Abani describes the African philosophical concept of Ubuntu as, “…the only way for me to…
The Women of Rosenstrasse
We have become so result oriented that we have moved away from doing what we believe is right…
Tsunami of Good
If you take each tiny ethical action and add it to the next tiny ethical action and continue…