Articles in Life and Health
Good reasons for being vegetarian
There are so many good reasons for being vegetarian (health, animals, the environment) that a better question might be, “Why NOT be vegetarian?” When you can easily…
significantly improve your health,
dramatically reduce your environmental footprint,
and greatly lessen …
Modern Culture A Civilization of Animals
In the modern culture it is advertised that sense enjoyment will create happiness. Indeed, sense enjoyment is the only type of happiness the population is educated in.
Let’s analyse what bodily and mental happiness is all about. …
Gold Medal Happiness
High-tech training of Olympic athletes adds fuel to an
old controversy: Are human beings just machines?
Once every four years, human society is presented with the great spectacle called the Olympics, full of stirring images of human endeavour and …
The Pursuit of Happiness
Smile a while-Spending time with friends ranks high on the happiness meter
And they lived happily ever after, say the fairy tales. Have you ever wondered if they really did? They could have in fairy tales …
Give Yourself A Break Before You Break Down!
Are you irritated, depressed, frustrated or angry? Perhaps the software of your mind is infected with negative viruses.
Imagine a person working on a computer that has viruses. He is busy typing, but the computer is …
Time to rething Celibacy?
Posted by: Satyanand Das (this article originally appeared here: celibatemonk.com
On 2 June 2012, during the 7th world Meeting of Families held in Milan Cathedral, Pope Benedict XVI reiterated the Catholic Church’s age-old stand on celibacy: “Without …
Are we devaluing sex by glamorizing it?
By Chaitanya Charan Das
This article originally appeared in The Spiritual Scientist here
Our contemporary culture constantly glamorizes sex through gaudy images permeated with sexual undertones and overtones. Due to this incessant glamorization of sex, most people …
Viktor Frankl – Why to believe in others
By AIF Staff
In this rare clip from 1972, legendary psychiatrist and Holocaust-survivor Viktor Frankl delivers a powerful message about the human search for meaning — and the most important gift we can give others.
If we …
Story of a “Real” Hero
By AIF Staff
An amazing story of grit, determination and perservance to face almost impossible odds in life. That is what S. Ramakrishnan stands for. What could a man do with a body immobilized down from …
In Search of a Lost Love – Lessons from the Musk Deer
Mother Nature is always speaking. She speaks in a language understood within the peaceful mind of the sincere observer. Leopards, cobras, monkeys, rivers and trees; they all served as my teachers when I lived as …
