The underlying principle is that we, humans, animals, vegetal and mineral, earth and all planets and galaxies, what we see and what we don’t see, all are part of ONE.
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Immanuel Kant
Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed nonage. Nonage is the inability to use one’s own understanding without another’s guidance. This nonage is self-imposed if its cause lies not in lack of understanding but in indecision and lack of courage to use one’s own mind without another’s guidance. Dare to know! (Sapere aude.) “Have the courage to use your own understanding,” is therefore the motto of the enlightenment.
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According to the latest UN projections, despite a continuing slowdown in the rate of population growth, it is ?almost inevitable? that the number of people on the planet will rise from 7.3 billion today to 9.7 billion in 2050. Ten years ago, the world population was growing by 1.24% annually; today, the percentage has dropped to 1.18% ? or roughly another 83 million people a year. The overall growth rate, which peaked in the late 1960s, has been falling steadily since the 1970s. The UN report attributes the slowdown to the near-global decline in fertility rates ? measured as the average number of children born to a woman over her lifetime ? even in Africa, where the rates remain the highest.
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During an interview with the world-renowned spiritual teacher Eckhart Tolle, we spoke about the intentional focus the news media gives to violence and tragedy committed on the planet. While these negative occurrences seem to be more and more prevalent, it may be that the worst aspects of humanity are emphasized on the nightly news. Continue reading Spiritual Life in Education: The New Ivy League
Consciousness is the riddle of awareness. You might call it the attention we pay to what occupies our attention. For example, we pay attention or spontaneously react to a man-eating lion just as gazelles and monkeys do. However, it’s the ongoing loop of attention we also devote to how we’re reacting from which the “i” we think of as “us”, somehow emerges.
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