Growing up as the only Jewish girl my age in a small-town in Indiana, I have a lifetime of experience in being the odd-one-out when it comes to Christmas. My...
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It’s the holiday season; Christmas trees laden with beautiful ornaments, streets lined with twinkling lights and the city decorated with color. I am filled with the holiday spirit as different...
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Life resembles a journey—however varied our aspirations may seem, we all seek to find and fulfill some sort of meaning. Along the way we can easily fall into the path...
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I don’t know why it never occurred to me before, but I have a constant, loving companion. He follows me wherever I go, sees all and knows all. Of course,...
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Latino culture is a culture of warmth — of family, food, hard work, and celebration through thick and thin. This culture of connection keeps us going through life’s challenges, especially...
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Meg Wheatley, the organizational behavior specialist, said “Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful.” Consider this, then: when was...
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“I want to meditate,” a friend once said, “but I try and nothing happens. What can I do to make my meditation actually work?” Like any physical or spiritual discipline,...
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And they were bringing children to him, that he might touch them; and the disciples rebuked them. But when Jesus saw it he was indignant, and said to them, “Let...
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I’ve always held a negative impression of fate, and a more positive one of destiny. What’s the distinction, you ask? If both fate and destiny mean that things happen through...
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We humans have a dual nature – we can act more savagely than the most voracious predator, or we can evince a caring, compassionate aspect that goes back more than...
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We tend to think of refined people as those with good taste, subtlety, and wisdom rather than ignorance, crudeness and vulgarity. Do you see yourself as refined? The Baha’i teachings frequently employ the word latafah—Arabic...
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Today, when scientists examine the question of our inner human life and why it exists, they attempt to solve a conundrum called the “Hard Problem of Consciousness.” In a nutshell,...
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From a big picture perspective, all of reality – everything in the entire creation originating from the Creator – is intricately tied together in a delicate balance of wholeness and...
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We often feel frustrated by our failures on the path to do what we know is right, accomplish what we set out to do, and become our true selves. Is...
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If you live in the developed world like I do you enjoy certain advantages that a lot of people in other places do not: electricity, running water, plentiful food and...
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In the past century, science has completely overhauled the entire concept of the macrocosm in cosmology—as well as the microcosm, in particle physics. In previous essays in this series,...
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The philosophers of Greece — such as Aristotle, Socrates, Plato and others — were devoted to the investigation of both natural and spiritual phenomena. In their schools of teaching they...
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God has created the world as one — the boundaries are marked out by man. God has not divided the lands… That is why Baha’u’llah says: “Let not a man...
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Scientists have a term for the all-too-human tendency to accept what supports our beliefs while rejecting any other information: they call it confirmation bias. You’ve heard that old saying “Don’t...
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Click here to read Part 1: I Believe God Exists Those without a belief in God argue that humans come from nature – that no God exists, just a wondrously...
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