A Delightful Conversation on Creativity

During the recent Peace Summit in Vancouver, which was organized around His Holiness the Dalai Lama, I was fortunate to moderate a dialogue on creativity.

Murray Gell-Mann, the Nobel price laureate of physics who discovered the quarks, described how mathematician

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Dealing with stress and anxiety

Stress is a natural response that marshals all our energies to deal with an emergency — such as fleeing from a charging elephant for example. However, if you spend your entire day thinking that you are being charged by an

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More guns, less crime ? The world upside down.

Wayne LaPierre, executive vice president of the National Rifle Association, said this as his response to the massacre of children at Sandy Hook elementary in Newtown, Connecticut : ‟The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is

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Spirituality and Life Philosophy 3

During the conference on ‟Change Yourself, Change the World”, organized by Emergences in Brussels last September, Pierre Rabhi, a French thinker and pioneer in organic farming, and Matthieu Ricard discussed their views on life. Here is a selection of their

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Spirituality and Life Philosophy 2

During the conference on ‟Change Yourself, Change the World”, organized by Emergences in Brussels last September, Pierre Rabhi, a French thinker and pioneer in organic farming, and Matthieu Ricard discussed their views on life. Here is a selection of their

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Spirituality and Life Philosophy 1

During the conference on ‟Change Yourself, Change the World”, organized by Emergences in Brussels last September, Pierre Rabhi, a French thinker and pioneer in organic farming, and Matthieu Ricard discussed their views on life. Here is a selection of their

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Words of Alexandre Jollien — 3

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On violence in the media: ‟It is a trivialization of evil which suggests that what is sensational is to takeover the other. However, what is truly sensational is ordinary day to day heroism — a smile given every day to

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