Existential Questions: Can We Avoid Them?
I recall a conversation that I had with my best friend in high school. I was deeply troubled…
Happiness
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Renewers
If education is an act of “renewal” in beliefs, ideas, hopes, happiness, misery, and practices, a renewal that…
Married to a Turk?!
“Have you lost your mind?!” Professor Lydia cried as soon as I announced that I had been engaged…
The Good, the Bad, and the Happy
How do we discriminate between right and wrong? What are the mechanisms for executing moral actions? Why do…
Sources of Happiness
Happiness is a subjective concept that evades accurate definitions or objective measurements. Social scientists, philosophers, and ordinary people…
The World and its Contents from the PERSPECTIVE OF A BELIEVER
This world is a wonderful vessel for humankind, floating in this vast universe, the place that we exist…
What is the purpose of death?
Although we are confined in this impermanent material world, every one of us has an inborn feeling and…
Worshiping
TWENTY-FOURTH WORD The Second Fruit of the Fifth Branch soul! Worship is not the introduction to additional rewards,…
Divine Truth and Lessons in Paul and Virginia
The French author, Bernardin De Saint Pierre expressed the delicacy and beauty of nature, as well as showing…
The Meaning of Life
Are all of life’s hardships worth enduring? The answer depends on what our goal is in living. In…
The Perfectibility of Man
A book exists first of all in its author’s mind as meaning. To have this immaterially existing book…
Through Death
As for the believing souls, worship of God is a mount for them, by which they fly to…
The Madness of Power for Its Own Sake
Those who have the power and technological means to satisfy their greed and feelings of hate and vengeance,…
Regrets About Science and Technology
Today, we are as exposed to great calamities and dangers as we have open to us great possibilities…