In the physical world, consequences are readily apparent. If you throw a rock at a glass, there’s a crash and the glass will shatter. Like that, physical consequences are not difficult to see. They are not only apparent in the sense of the reality of the physical world, they are apparent to all of your […]
You’ve all watched sports, and some have participated in sports. Sports is an industry. And in the industry, you have lots of different people involved in it doing lots of different things. It starts out with the people who go to work to build the stadium. Then, you have the people who own the teams.
When people ask you, “Where do you live,” the response is usually something like “America” or “Turkey” or “Philadelphia” or “Istanbul” or “Canada” or “Toronto.” In other words, it’s a place. We all identify ourselves with living in a place. Some people might say, “I live on the planet Earth,” which would cover most of
When humans are born, they are incredibly vulnerable and they have to be taken care of for a long time before they can fend for themselves. A baby is really without the capability of making it in this world without somebody nurturing it and raising it and teaching it. Now slowly that baby, over the course
If we cannot see the truth in ourself we cannot see it in others, we are in a state which has veils covering our ability to see. Arrogance is one of those veils, a state blocking our ability to see the pure heart in another person. Not only does arrogance block our ability to see
The creation of Adam, the first man, is a great mystery, and we are all related to this mystery in a very significant way. To understand who we are, we have to understand who Adam is, what his creation means because we are a re-creation of that original creation. To know ourself we can start
When we set out on this path to reality there are certain fundamental questions we have to ask ourself: who am I, why am I here, what is the purpose of creation, why was I created, what is the purpose of existence, what is the purpose of this life? The answers are easy, living the
In ancient cultures, especially in Africa and South America, we describe certain parts of those cultures as taboos. In other words, things these people won’t go near, things these people won’t do, things these tribal ancient cultures are afraid of. They have had ingrained in them since they were very very young, the fact that in
May the peace of God be with you, now and always. What is transformation, what is transformed, who are we, what do we need to know about ourself? Saintly beings have told us that to know our Lord we must know ourself. This means we must go through the process of learning who we are.
The year 2008 is the 35th anniversary of the seminal paper of Ambrosetti & Rabinowitz which introduced the Mountain Pass Theorem (MPT), and it is the 15th anniversary of numerical implementation of MPT by Choi & McKenna – the Mountain Pass Algorithm (MPA).
