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Trust in God unconditionally. The Strength to resist temptation. Infinite forgiveness. Unity regardless of all our differences. These are beautiful concepts, but also ones that sometimes seem to have lost their position in daily life.

By 2030 it's estimated that close to one in four persons in sa国际传媒 will at least 65 years old.

It鈥檚 that time of year for many of going back to or starting school, college, university, or other learning and training. And there are an abundance of continuing education/lifelong learning programs beginning as well. It鈥檚 a season for learning.

Over the years I have had numerous conversations with people about what is and isn鈥檛 spiritual. Some tell me they are not spiritual. Some say they don鈥檛 know what spiritual means or that the word is too vague and wishy-washy to mean anything at all.

Recently, I have noted again and again how much ways of being that I have long considered virtues seem to have fallen on tough times.

There is much in the news about breaking the glass ceiling of prejudice in the fight for equality of the sexes. Less known are the spiritual underpinnings of this movement and its history in the heart of Islam.

August has a wonderful sense of slow, languorous living. The days fold into longer warm evenings, a time to enjoy the celestial lightshow of the Perseid meteor showers or the storied constellations.

Leadership is being debated with ever greater vigor these days 鈥� whether it is business leadership, political leadership, religious leadership or social leadership.

Even as we see exhilarating portraits of Olympics and other 鈥済lorious鈥� events in the world, I find it hard not to notice that there is still much suffering in this world (including in the favelas where the trickle down beneficial effect of Olympics i

A singular, very impactful intellectual shift that comes through meditation is the heightened sensitivity to initial conditions. This is the corollary to valorizing kindness over rightness. In the absence of a Creator God, universal chaos reigns.