Reading Time: 3 minutes We have a long way to go in improving the understanding of mental health issues and in serving those who have them, but people like DeMar DeRozan are helping
Author: Gerry Chidiac
Painting a masterpiece: the art of dissent in search of truth
Reading Time: 3 minutes Freedom of expression in the arts is as fragile as freedom of the press, and it’s just as vital to human rights as freedom of thought
Do you have the grit it takes to achieve success?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Research is slowly helping us understand the qualities we need in order to overcome obstacles on the way to our goals
Abstain to satisfy your hunger for peace and understanding
Reading Time: 3 minutes Fasting makes me feel purified in body, mind and spirit, and links me in solidarity with good people all around the world
Moving forward together to be a light for a broken world
Reading Time: 3 minutes We gain strength when we decide that we won’t allow the crimes of others to hold us back. We gain true freedom when we forgive our oppressors
The Beatles just might have been right
Reading Time: 3 minutes Love may not be all we need, but it’s a key ingredient to leading a well-lived, meaningful existence
Stepping beyond stereotypes to right wrongs
Reading Time: 3 minutes The key is to focus on acceptable and unacceptable actions, not the ethnicity or gender of the actor
Broad social change must first be an inside job
Reading Time: 3 minutes None of us can be an agent of positive change unless we’re at peace within their own being
“I am a man with Down syndrome and my life is worth living”
Reading Time: 3 minutes History is full of policies established to determine which human lives were valuable and which were not. Are we comfortable going down that path again?
Can meditation create a more peaceful world?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Studies show that meditation and mindfulness training lead to better health in body, mind and spirit. Is that enough to solve the world’s problems?