The roots of loneliness and isolation are many but eventually a “shell” settles within us and we have a very hard time breaking through it and reconnecting.

But what is culture ? Every definition - and there are dozens and dozens - that we can find is human-centric.

But on closer inspection Christmas appears as a perfect time to reflect on the primacy of the Spirit / Self over matter.

We are all used with the linear thinking that everything that happens is an effect of something else, of some cause. Most often though that cause is also an effect of yet something else which could be called as its cause, and so on.

If wisdom is more about about establishing the target, discretion is more about actually getting there. It also has something to do with being able to relate to the people involved in the respective situations.

One could not think of a more marvellous result of the power of evolution - integration to the point of quasi-identity of form and function.

But in the process of teaching one ends up learning many things. And in general we do some of our best learning of a subject when we have to teach it to others.

Without a functioning light bulb, we would never know that electricity was flowing through the socket. In a creative dimension, the painting could never materialize the power of creativity of the painter without the help of the brush…

According to Hertog, the new perspective that he has achieved with Hawking reverses the hierarchy between laws and reality in physics and is “profoundly Darwinian” in spirit.

Throughout this accelerated movement it becomes more and more difficult to hold on to what each holds as most comfortable from the past. But it is also clear that we cannot throw away all eternal human values and content in order to always live on the cusp of the technological waves.