Positive Overtones

Freedom from Violence: PEACE Shalom-God’s own peace God, humans and the striving for peace :   God is peace itself. The violence around us is a reminder for us that we are still sinners and that we need to seek God. A search for peace without a search for God is a fruitless search. Only God can grant us peace. All those who yearn for peace in the world are silently and maybe even unknowingly yearning for God himself. Jesus was the Messiah destined to be the “Prince of Peace”. By saving us from sin itself, he basically brought peace to us humans. But we humans have the option to accept God’s offer for reconciliation or to reject it. Once we accept it, we need to share this peace to others by spreading the Gospel message of peace. However the striving for peace needs to be sought after by all humans irrespective of whether one is Christian or not. The first step to universal peace is to understand the fact that all of us humans need to work for peace in the world. Peace n...

blink by Malcolm Gladwell (Book Review) Malcolm Gladwell is a former business and science reporter at the Washington Post and is now a staff reporter for the New Yorker . In his book blink he wishes to unravel the mysteries of the “unconscious instinct” and how it can be controlled. The book consists of six chapters and is filled with various real-life incidents that better help him to explain his theory of the “unconscious instinct”. The unconscious mind is constantly analyzing and critiquing every single bit of information it receives. This is called “thin-slicing”. Our unconscious mind is so swift at doing this that we do not even realize how fast the whole process has taken. We rate people on how we experience them rather than how much we know of them. That is why a courteous person is likely to get into trouble than an impolite one. This is how the unconscious mind works. It examines every detail in a split second and then makes its judgement. The unconscious mind is l...