Archive for the 'Values & Beliefs' Category

Open Mind

Saturday, June 28th, 2008

“Human rights” is a concept promoted for a long time in many international documents. The national and international conflicts, political attitudes and human behaviors are drawing a tough reality for us to realize that we respect human rights only on paper. Theoretically speaking we all seem to know and to talk about human rights. We […]

Family Values and Prejudices

Sunday, September 30th, 2007

Since the world exists parents are raising their children according to certain family values transmitted from their own parents…the well-known process from generation to generation. These values are having a legacy status and because they are very resistant to change the present values are always compared to them.
Parents raise a child following an ”old pattern” […]

Your Mind: Full of Certainties vs. Full of Doubts

Monday, June 25th, 2007

Imagine a scale of mind states with two extremes. At one extremity there is a state of mind full of certainties, at the other one a state full of doubts. And between these two extremities there are another three states of mind: the first one in which predominant are certainties but doubts are present too, […]

Consciousness-Raising Events

Thursday, June 21st, 2007

At a given time our consciousness has a certain range of understanding and comprehending the world around us. Usually our consciousness boundaries are given by the criterion of familiarity. If we are familiar with something then we haven’t many problems in deeply understanding it. But once one thing is beyond our familiarity, it challenges our […]