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I- KAMRAN’s Blog: Dedicated to the Common Good- aiming to be a source of hope and inspiration; enabling us all to move from despair to hope; darkness to light and competition to cooperation. “Let the beauty we love be what we do.”-Rumi
II- KAMRAN MOFID’s GUEST’s BLOG: Here on The Guest Blog you’ll find commentary, analysis, insight and at times provocation from some of the world’s influential and spiritual thought leaders as they weigh in on critical questions about the state of the world, the emerging societal issues, the dominant socio-economic logic, globalisation, money, markets, sustainability, dialogue, cooperation, environment, media, spirituality, faith, culture, the youth, the purpose of business and economic life, the crucial role of leadership, and the challenges facing economic, business, management, education, and more.
“When we are dreaming alone it is only a dream. When we are dreaming together it is the beginning of reality.”—Helder Camara
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Birds, buds, blossoms, and brighter days heralding the hope of Easter
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This year Easter matters more than ever in the age of the coronavirus
Hope is the Message of Easter and the Resurrection of Spring
Despite – or perhaps because of – my Persian upbringing, nonetheless, since marrying my English wife in 1974, I have always been a sucker for the Easter story, offering a message of hope – that even after the greatest pain, there is renewal.
The message of Easter, and the signal sent by the arrival of spring, is that life will return, one way or another. At times of crises, this story is timeless and priceless, let’s cling to it.
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Easter is HOPE: As far back as the 6th century BC, the Greek poet Theognis of Megara said: “Hope is the one good god remaining.”
As the poet Theo Dorgan reminds us, hope is a profound act of imagination, the most important and the most neglected of the civic virtues. In the face of the present coronavirus pandemic and other societal and global crises we can lie down in despair, or we can choose hope — which means placing all our faith in each other and in the boundless capacity of the imagination to reinvent circumstance, to establish new truths.
- An open letter to all my Friends
- World in Chaos and Despair: Let Wordsworth be Your Teacher
- An open letter to all my fellow academic colleagues: Make Education ‘A Thing of Beauty’
- The Sweetness of Being Human: ‘We have all of us one human heart.’
- Lessons from an old-time social distancer for novices like us
- Coronavirus Crisis and Mounting Debt: Forgive our debts as we forgive our debtors
- Ten Steps to Nurture and Save the World: A Perspective from a Transformed Economist