Covid Resilience

Calm your raging eyes Fuel not a hollow fire Lower your accusing gaze Point not at a whirling lily Liberate the flower of sublimity From the shackles of your enmity Let it dance to a divine melody Let it mix the blue into the green Let it reach ou…

On the back cover of the 2017 May-June edition of this magazine we were reminded of the knot that binds us to the tangle we have made of human existence. Releasing the knot, one would contend, requires first an awareness of the nature of the knot, w…

More, more, and more Adams GS et al. People systematically overlook subtractive changes. Nature, April 2021 A recent study showed that human beings are driven by a powerful instinct to add rather than subtract in daily problem solving. Researchers…

“Sincerity” in the Islamic Tradition Ikhlas is a Qur’anic concept that is variously translated as “sincerity” or “purity of intention,” and Gülen’s understanding of this term covers both aspects of the Qur’anic concept. In ordinary parlance, “since…