🧩 Philosophy Apr 6, 2026 · Maria Popova

Sentinels of the Soul: Kahlil Gibran’s Moving Letter to a Soldier in a Senseless War

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Sentinels of the Soul: Kahlil Gibran’s Moving Letter to a Soldier in a Senseless War
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War is an ism — nationalism, dogmatism, capitalism — paid for by an is: the living beingness of human beings made a sacrificial offering to an ideology so powerful it has quelled the two things that make us most human: compassion and critical thinking.
“Those people who see clearly the necessity of changed thinking must themselves undertake the discipline of thinking in new ways and must persuade others to do so,” the visionary Kathleen Lonsdale wrote in what remains the

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