Your beliefs are just thoughts that you keep thinking. Yet, they are so entrenched in most of our psyches, that we take them to be literal descriptors of who we come to think we are. This is how we are conditioned to be the people we think we are. Wherever Read more…
What I am observing at this time, as are so many of us, is a lot of protesting and activism on behalf of something or other. There are a lot of reasons that everything all over the world seems so chaotic at this time, but change is in the air Read more…
In previous posts I have written about empathy and leadership (e.g. Spiritual Crisis is the World’s Greatest Problem Part 2 – Cultural Sensitivity and Empathy) but I would like to revisit it again through a frame of empathy. Civic mobilization requires that we understand and address the underlying problems that Read more…
The contentious atmosphere that pervades our societies with all the anger and frustration should be of concern for everyone. So, today’s post, with the title given, is the transcript of an oral presentation I gave at an international conference in Montreal in 2009. Modern consumerism prevents people who benefit from Read more…
‘It is so empowering to say this isn’t serving me and then to walk peacefully away.’ Anon If there ever was a time for major change to happen, now is that time. I’m not just talking about tweaking our current dystopic system where the 1% currently lord it over us, Read more…
“Opinion is the lowest from of human knowledge. It requires no accountability, no understanding. The Highest form of knowledge … is empathy, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another’s world. It requires profound purpose larger than the self-kind of understanding.” Bill Bullard To regular visitors Read more…