The wise know the power of language in conversation and its relation to the development of culture. This brilliant interview between Irshad Manji and Imran Siddiqui speaks to the great human mystery that is the arrival and possession of good conscience and the development of related great ethics.
YouTube's "globalcrossover" posted the video about a year ago and there's much in it, especially as regards online publishing of suppressed work in multiple languages, that tells how language and spirituality may work through personalities at their best. One might reference the positive side of the psychology of narcissism -- call it "reparative narcissism" (if I'm following that thinking correctly) -- and still arrive at the same conclusions.
God's good name?
Nature?
The better angels of our nature?
What works in the best of human nature -- inherent kindness and love, thoughtfulness, consideration, conscience and guilt, containment and self-control . . . so many characteristcs and virtues -- simply works.
How we box it up, package it, label it, what we call it . . . perhaps we'll find our way together and get our global heads around that.
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