When you walk in darkness, it is sometimes difficult to believe that the light shining in the distance is real, and that it might turn out to be a bonfire. Yet this is the very essence of faith: to trust despite apparent uncertainty — in other words, to keep a burning flame even when everything around us seems dull and…
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Memory alters reality as it was lived and tends to smooth out all its rough edges: what was negative fades away, leaving only a lukewarm or even pleasant recollection, while what was positive is sometimes simply forgotten. Overall, memory makes the past gentler, which partly explains why it becomes easier to forgive people as time goes by. However, this alteration…
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We deplore racism and all other forms of arbitrary hatred. Yet it is interesting to note that it is, in fact, more reassuring to be hated for what one is not than for what one truly is. You are not only your skin color, your sex, or your sexual orientation. When someone is homophobic, they are actually hating a superficial…
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