Dr. Keppe has said many times over the more than 2 decades I’ve been here in Brazil studying and working with him that no one is good alone. That means we act from influencers in our lives — and I don’t mean to social media kind. Friends and family, lovers and mentors, teachers and priests
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Tag: Freedom
The idea of Creation. The new atheists rail against that. “It’s not rational,” they insist. The product of a weak mind. Yes, I’ve heard all that before. In fact, I’m quick to admit that may have been my mind some years ago. I say “may” because I’m not sure what I thought about the origins
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It’s as old as philosophy itself. Freedom. Free will. Free choice. We’ve taken it for granted in our western world. “Of course we’re free,” we gloat when comparing ourselves to those in the world we consider unfree. Until we’re not free. To get together in groups, or sit tight to another table at a restaurant,
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This week on Thinking with Somebody Else's Head, the first in a 2-part series on leadership. And not a superficial treatment either. But a deep investigation into what it means to be a true leader here in the 21st Century. Gone are the old values we once held so high, like charisma and conviction and
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Take a look around at the critical situations facing we human beings, and it's sobering. Maybe that's why most of us don't like looking too closely. It becomes overwhelming. "Can't you talk about something else," is how my mother often phrases this sense of overwhelm. The implication being that not talking about it makes it
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Dr. Claudia Bernhardt Pacheco joins us today for a profound exploration of the nature of life, how far we’ve strayed from it and what that distance means for human intelligence and culture. A poetic discussion that finds time along the way to consider the inverted human will, airport security gone mad, and how the Japanese
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