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Happiness and Its Spin-offs


Aristotle points out in Nicomachean Ethics that while we desire every other thing for being instrumental and serving some other … More

Happiness, Living in the Now, Living in the Present

One’s Love for a Woman


“One’s love for a woman (and even for one’s near and dear) is most often never pure because you stand … More

Love, Pure love, Quotable quotes, Quotations, Quote, Quotes, True love

To Love or To Be Loved


“No, not when you are not loved, but when you do not love, life becomes difficult.”–D. Samarender Reddy

Love, Quotable quotes, Quotations, Quote, Quotes

Psychedelics and Prayer


What I am suggesting is that the appearance of small mystical societies in ancient times that ultimately evolved into more … More

Prayer, psychedelics

Five Reasons Why Morality is Distracting and Harmful


[My comment: That’s why Dharma is a better concept than morality since it takes into account the context in which … More

Categorical imperative, Ethics, Kantian ethics, Moral philosophy, Morality

Unconditional Love


Unconditional love is an illusion. Sacrifices and gifts are the reality. Once couples are able to give up the illusion … More

Love, True love, Unconditional Love

Authentic Living


The more I study people who are single at heart, the more I think that at the core of their … More

Authentic living, Authenticity, Bachelors, Spinsters

The 5 best books on Multiculturalism


recommended by Prof. Tariq Modood “I think that one of the key differences between multiculturalism and liberalism is that liberalism … More

Best books on multiculturalism, Multiculturalism

Prof. Tariq Modood on Multiculturalism and Secularism


The second shift for me is that prior to the importance of religion was the importance of identity. This goes … More

Cosmoplitanism, Interculturalism, Multiculturalism, Secularism, Transnationalism

Islam and Multiculturalism


The modern state has been characterized by Bikhu Parekh as “a historically unique mode of defining and relating its members”, … More

Assimilation, Ghettoization, Integration, Liberalism, Multiculturalism, Nationalism

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