Aggression in social conflict only fuels a spiral of violence. It forces solutions under pressure, awakening new—often greater—forms of destruction in return.
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There can be no difference of opinion about genocide. Precisely when disagreement arises over whether it is genocide, the conditions for it are already being created.
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Staying is not weakness—it is often the quiet endurance of someone still searching for their way back to freedom.
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The key to success lies in how you interact with the people around you. Follow the paths of those who have succeeded before you.
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Existential freedom does exist, despite all the freedom that is taken from us. It exists as long as we don't take freedom as all-encompassing. Freedom is not absolute, it exists in a context in which choices are made. The choice of one excludes a freedom from the other. But we all live to become free, whatever that freedom is.
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I sometimes hear it said: we, humans, are far from being free. Yet everyone aspires to become free. Or let me say: to become freer. But what is freedom? Personally, I strongly believe in self-coaching as a path to freedom. Freedom and self-coaching, they are synonyms. So let me ask the question again: what is freedom? From the answers to this question, we can learn more about the core of self-coaching.
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The subject of terror in the name of religion, and of ideology in the broad sense, remains topical. Whenever there are jihadist attacks, it is busier than usual on social media. Violent attacks in the name of an ideology, are often self-labeled as resistance. It does not leave people insensitive. Are the reasons and the means of this resistance justifiable? Is it able to get popular support or is a pacific counter-movement to be expected? I believe that self-coaching can help young people to set the boundaries of a human-desirable resistance and not to fall in the trap of extremism.
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Are we truly serious about the peace we say we want? The answer might be simpler than we think. Just look around you—who are the people you choose to surround yourself with?
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Freethinkers have no room for ideological intrusiveness. They are neutral in their approach to people, bringing calm by concentrating on the person and not the ideas.
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Life is for people who seek love and hope, for beautiful, often lonely hearts that long for sparkles of encouragement, for riddles that unravel one step closer to the point of light that makes us embrace life and share it endlessly with those around us .
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What we need are no hell preachers. We need prophets as they have always existed. Yes, those prophets are also there today in large and small. Their heart burns with desire to make peace by bringing people together, by creating harmony. They are people who have the fire of love in their hearts. Many come to these hearts to get warmed themselves.
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Our affection for the suffering of people gets nullified once we are on an express train that takes us away from reality, that drags us into discussions and counter-discussions about the Great Lies and the Great Truths without that in reality we engage with the people in need we are debating about. At least, this is what often happens at the discourse level.
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Since 2009-2010, Northern Nigeria has been the focus of attention for the Boko Haram conflict, or the jihadist terror in the region. This terror is part of a wider armed conflict between Muslims and Christians in the region that I have been reporting in the media since my own stay there between 2005 and 2007.
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