As the scale of devastation from the earthquake that struck southern Turkey and Syria becomes clearer and more horrifying by the minute, initial takeaways are already surfacing. But before I talk about what I believe needs to be done, I…
My heart is with the citizens of Turkey during the heavy disaster that befell them with the powerful earthquake. My students from Turkey update me on every development, and together we are closely following my dear student whose building…
Contrary to a lot of opinions, we do not have to change the economic, social and political structures, and other various superstructures in society. We have to change ourselves. And we can do so by means of education. Changing ourselves…
Heroes are those who, while immersed in their egoistic self-centered nature, build another person out of themselves, one that is in equal to the altruistic force of nature. Imagine that you are in a closed dark space, like a worm…
Light is the force in nature that influences, governs, permeates and animates everything. All other forces that we observe in nature are derived from it. We feel the light as a source of goodness, a law of nature, a powerful…
We all want to live in a world filled with love, but at the same time, think that it is impossible. But what if we could live in a loving world? We currently live in a hostile world. We find…
We can observe time when we look at our watches, and we can sense time when we reflect on our lives and realize how quickly time passes., We feel it when we contemplate the events in our lives and consider…
Sacrifice is an inner state experienced by everyone undergoing spiritual development. What do we sacrifice? We sacrifice our egoism, i.e. our desire to enjoy for self-benefit alone, or in other words, we sacrifice our nature on the inanimate, vegetative and…
We can benefit from a crisis if we understand its true cause and how we heal the world through it. Otherwise, we cannot say that we benefit from a crisis. At their core, all crises we endure emerge from negative…
Yes, we have fate. That is, we live in a predetermined reality. We each have different fates that move us through life’s various states at differing rates. For instance, some people live basic lives, doing nothing much more than working…
There are numerous examples of how music and songs are used in education in order to let students absorb the material more easily. Moreover, by learning various subjects through music, the students themselves learn how to teach others, their next…
On what basis would love arise if there were no hatred? What kind of love could there be if there were no rejection? What would love manifest upon? Every one of our qualities and feelings of life, ourselves and others…