UEF Selections

The UEF Rabbit hole

Rabbit Hole: Used especially in the phrase going down the rabbit hole or falling down the rabbit hole, a rabbit hole is a metaphor for something that transports someone into a wonderfully (or troublingly) surreal state or situation. On the internet, a rabbit hole frequently refers to an extremely engrossing and time-consuming topic.

Research can be quite the ‘rabbit hole’ sometimes, but like Alice in Wonderland, it can also transport you into a wonderfully thought provoking and mind-enriching experience. Our research constantly helps us to discover treasures of knowledge, deep reflection and interesting perspectives. On this page, we bring you such delightful discoveries.
Learn, All

Overcoming the myth of Seperatedness

  • In the context of leadership, separation manifests as leadership by domination—those trying to achieve power over others rather than finding power with others.
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Learn

50 Short Habits of Lifelong Learners

  • Successful lifelong learners nurture their intellectual curiosities. Helen Keller, Einstein, Confucius, da Vinci, Richard Feynman, and many of history’s geniuses were lifelong learners. They were self-learners. They never settled but were committed to personal growth and knowledge discovery.
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Love, Emotional

Experiences of awe in nature can boost both our feeling of connectedness to others

  • When my family moved from the United States to the north of England a few years ago, we soon adopted the local custom of going for a weekend walk in the Peak District National Park.
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Learn, Emotional

Watch the two spiritual leaders laughing their guts out

  • The Book of Joy by the Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, and Douglas Abrams focuses on ways to cultivate joy in the face of widespread human suffering on both, on a personal and collective levels.
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Learn

A brief journey through Western concepts of what makes a meaningful life

  • The concept of a “meaningful life” is a topic that has been debated for centuries. Philosophers have long sought to answer the question of what constitutes a good life, and their ideas have played an essential role in shaping our…
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Sprituality

Did Einstein believe in the existence of God or was he an atheist?

  • In the years 1905 and 1916, Albert Einstein published his special and general theories of relativity respectively which made him one of the most influential physicists in the history of science. Einstein was a prolific thinker who could
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Learn, Sprituality

The Return to Wholeness Is What We Need Now

  • Human beings made a bad bargain when we gave up our wholeness. Every other living creature takes wholeness for granted, meaning that bacteria, ferns, horses, and chimpanzees survive and thrive simply by being who they are — they have no other choice.
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Love, Sprituality

How to bring more Love into your life

  • As the Beatles told us, “All you need is love” and how sure this is. Your highest vibration, your essence, who you really are, is pure love.
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Learn, Play

Learning Through Play

  • Play is an essential way of learning about the world.
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Nature

The playful wonderland behind great inventions

  • Steven Johnson argues it is not necessity which is the mother of inventions but playfulness
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Learn, Sprituality

Enlightenment is Accessible to everyone

  • Interest in higher consciousness has grown over the past few decades, even though enlightenment, in the Eastern sense of complete awakening, once was considered quite foreign in the West.
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Know Thyself

  • The Ancient Greek Aphorism “Know Thyself” is Literally The Key to a Meaningful Life
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Love, Learn

Loving Kindness

  • You can make kindness as your default response
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Sprituality

Bridging Differences — The Greater Good

  • In an interesting article on Bridging Differences, in UC Berkeley’s The Greater Good, they say, differences don’t necessarily need to divide people, but we do have a tendency, rooted in evolution, to split the world into “us” and “them”—and to treat members of our own “ingroup” with kindness while behaving badly toward outside groups. These tendencies can be especially pronounced at times when we feel stressed or threatened, anxious about our own security or survival….
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Deepak Chopra’s Book of Secrets

  • “Finding the hidden dimensions in yourself is the only way to fulfill your deepest hunger,” writes bestselling author Deepak Chopra. He is convinced that all the wisdom and guidance we need for the arduous journey of life is already present within: all we have to do is tap into this reservoir of truth. What does he mean by this? Chopra delineates a few principles: Your awareness is always open to change. You feel acceptance for all others as your equal. You feel a sense of connection with your source. Your being is cradled in the rhythms of the universe.
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Sprituality

Did Einstein believe in the existence of God or was he an atheist?

  • In the years 1905 and 1916, Albert Einstein published his special and general theories of relativity respectively which made him one of the most influential physicists in the history of science. Einstein was a prolific thinker who could
  • Read More
Learn, Sprituality

Enlightenment is Accessible to everyone

  • Interest in higher consciousness has grown over the past few decades, even though enlightenment, in the Eastern sense of complete awakening, once was considered quite foreign in the West.
  • Read More
Sprituality

Bridging Differences — The Greater Good

  • In an interesting article on Bridging Differences, in UC Berkeley’s The Greater Good, they say, differences don’t necessarily need to divide people, but we do have a tendency, rooted in evolution, to split the world into “us” and “them”—and to treat members of our own “ingroup” with kindness while behaving badly toward outside groups. These tendencies can be especially pronounced at times when we feel stressed or threatened, anxious about our own security or survival….
  • Read More
Learn

Deepak Chopra’s Book of Secrets

  • “Finding the hidden dimensions in yourself is the only way to fulfill your deepest hunger,” writes bestselling author Deepak Chopra. He is convinced that all the wisdom and guidance we need for the arduous journey of life is already present within: all we have to do is tap into this reservoir of truth. What does he mean by this? Chopra delineates a few principles: Your awareness is always open to change. You feel acceptance for all others as your equal. You feel a sense of connection with your source. Your being is cradled in the rhythms of the universe.
  • Read More

Love, Learn

Loving Kindness

  • You can make kindness as your default response
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Play

How to Think More Deeply About Play

  • Play is a serious business. But seriousness does not exclude fun.
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Love, Nature

Cooperation and competition is key to evolution

  • It turns out Darwin’s theory of evolution was incomplete. Evolutionary biologists such as Elizabet Sahtouris have concluded that the survival of the fittest is but one stage of the larger evolutionary cycle and that without intra- and inter-species cooperation built into the process, a purely selfish and competitive species is likely to die out.
  • Read More
Learn, Sprituality

Enlightenment is Accessible to everyone

  • Interest in higher consciousness has grown over the past few decades, even though enlightenment, in the Eastern sense of complete awakening, once was considered quite foreign in the West.
  • Read More

Learn

A brief journey through Western concepts of what makes a meaningful life

  • The concept of a “meaningful life” is a topic that has been debated for centuries. Philosophers have long sought to answer the question of what constitutes a good life, and their ideas have played an essential role in shaping our…
  • Read More
Play

How to Think More Deeply About Play

  • Play is a serious business. But seriousness does not exclude fun.
  • Read More
Nature

The playful wonderland behind great inventions

  • Steven Johnson argues it is not necessity which is the mother of inventions but playfulness
  • Read More
Love, Nature

Cooperation and competition is key to evolution

  • It turns out Darwin’s theory of evolution was incomplete. Evolutionary biologists such as Elizabet Sahtouris have concluded that the survival of the fittest is but one stage of the larger evolutionary cycle and that without intra- and inter-species cooperation built into the process, a purely selfish and competitive species is likely to die out.
  • Read More
Learn

Know Thyself

  • The Ancient Greek Aphorism “Know Thyself” is Literally The Key to a Meaningful Life
  • Read More

Love, Emotional

Experiences of awe in nature can boost both our feeling of connectedness to others

  • When my family moved from the United States to the north of England a few years ago, we soon adopted the local custom of going for a weekend walk in the Peak District National Park.
  • Read More
Learn, Emotional

Watch the two spiritual leaders laughing their guts out

  • The Book of Joy by the Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, and Douglas Abrams focuses on ways to cultivate joy in the face of widespread human suffering on both, on a personal and collective levels.
  • Read More
Learn, Sprituality

The Return to Wholeness Is What We Need Now

  • Human beings made a bad bargain when we gave up our wholeness. Every other living creature takes wholeness for granted, meaning that bacteria, ferns, horses, and chimpanzees survive and thrive simply by being who they are — they have no other choice.
  • Read More
Love, Sprituality

How to bring more Love into your life

  • As the Beatles told us, “All you need is love” and how sure this is. Your highest vibration, your essence, who you really are, is pure love.
  • Read More
Nature

The playful wonderland behind great inventions

  • Steven Johnson argues it is not necessity which is the mother of inventions but playfulness
  • Read More
Love, Learn

Loving Kindness

  • You can make kindness as your default response
  • Read More

Knowledge acquired by human beings has been increasing at an exponential rate for over a century. However, we have yet to make commensurate progress in human flourishing. This is because knowledge has been getting increasingly fragmented and sits mostly in silos. The UEF believes that if we can integrate knowledge across the silos of time, civilizations, geographies and academic disciplines.

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