While the phenomenon is pleasant or unpleasant or neutral, there is a moment in which we will become interested, perhaps a benefit that will become central, essential, it will be the relationship. Not so much that it is pleasant or unpleasant, but how it is accompanied, how it is met.

Restriction is the prerequisite for freedom, through the Hebrew, through the vocabulary word. The Hebrew must come first and then it is followed by the vocabulary word.

Yielding does not save us from being devoured; it only delays the devouring. Recognizing this can strengthen our resolve to seek true relief through purification and transcendence, rather than through submission and yielding.

The banquet is open to all, "both to the bad and to the good", yet a positive response to the invitation to the kingdom is required.

The secret lay in numbing the senses. If you keep people occupied with games, shows, and distractions, they will not have the silence that is necessary to ask: "Why am I here? What am I becoming? Where am I going after I die?"

I wish you joy and laughter in this month of Mashiyyat!

In this encounter between the everyday and the holy lies something deeply Jewish. God does not have to be found only in the synagogue, in prayer books, or in moments of solemn contemplation.

Only when the mind is purified will it guide you. Until then, do not listen to it. The mind should not be the driving force of you.

It matters less what brand or price the clothing is, and more that it was consciously chosen for the particular occasion. This ultimately enhances our own awareness during prayer or the joyful mood on Shabbat.

When the Companions, that is the Sahaba, however received a torn garment, they bowed their heads before Allah. Their tongues became moist from the remembrance of his goodness. They said, what a garment our God has given us.

We do not have to accept a broken, crisis-prone food system. A more resilient and more natural solution already exists: agroecology.

The Bible does not stop at naming a distress. It tells how God encounters people in it.

No one should have to hide who they are. On this Rainbow Laces Day, we are calling on everyone in sport to take action so that LGBTQ+ people feel safe and included

Look at the small things. From them, great things grow. We can use our gifts, however small and modest they may seem, and do good, great things. That is the miracle.

The Buddhist teaching is such that we immediately feel better when we apply the teaching.

The meaning of life therefore lies in training one's own mind so that one is freed from illusions, hatred, and egoism.

Thus, in the culture of the Qur’ān, tourism is both the art of seeing and a path to awakening; it is at once a journey through geography and an inner movement toward knowledge and responsibility.

Berlin is the city of freedom, Berlin is the city of diversity, of internationality, and of openness to the world, and let us together ensure that this openness to the world, this internationality, this diversity, and our freedom are never taken away from us

The strength of this dining hall lies not only in distributing food, but in the fact that residents come in person, look one another in the eye, and share a meal.

Miohocho is everywhere. I had the impression, when I came into the Docksam room and saw this exploding rhododendron. It is so overwhelmingly vital and beautiful. I just thought, this is actually Miohocho.

Guru Angad Sahib did not simply preserve the teachings of Guru Nanak Sahib. He cultivated a new kind of human being and, equally important, a new kind of community.

Gravesites with secular messages are melancholic, they touch more deeply than religious invocations. Gravesites that make one reflect on individual transience.

The cause of the pleasant is the pleasant as cause, the pleasant as source, the pleasant as basis, for the cause of the pleasant is simply the pleasant.

Addiction affects nearly every family, including families in our own parishes, but shame and secrecy keep most people who are struggling from ever getting help.