“Windows To Spirituality”
Educational Services Are Spreading Throughout The World This article covers the importance of education and educational services. Why Education? Many things have been said and written about education. We will approach this subject from three interrelated angles: human-psychological, national-social, and universal. We have been under the serious influence of contemporary...
The Major Cause Of Our People This article covers the next generation of Muslims (Our People). The whole world is now moving toward spring. Despite problems in the past, almost everyone agrees that the future is bright. Rather than dwelling on this phenomenon though, it is more important to consider...
A Season To Weep This article is about weeping for sadness, joy, and compassion. Time has always made this poor Zihni weep, I went to the orchard, and saw the keeper weep, Hyacinths are just wretched, roses sadly weep Since the beloved nightingale left this orchard. Zihni Tears manifest feelings...
The Devout: The Architect Of Our Souls This article covers the characteristics of the devout. Although some people today disdain moral values, the inner depths of the human being, and the importance of the life of the heart and spirit, there is no doubt that the route to true humanity...
The Hero Of Thought And Action The person of thought and action moves actively while making plans; they are deeply concerned with bringing peace to the world, and representing the movement of raising once again the statues of our soul and meaning, which we have been knocking down continuously for...
Action And Thought The field of our struggle for the inheritors of the Earth can be summarized as “action and thought.” In fact, the true path of existence in life goes through a potentially transforming action and thought which is also able to transform others. In fact every existence, from...
Appeal To Mercy On the other hand, what lies at the roots of the behavior of people of service is a long period of preparation and severe suffering followed by an appeal to mercy aimed at a search for human rights. It is patently obvious that those who do not...
The World Awaited This article covers the dreams, hopes and aspirations of the writer’s for “The World Awaited“. When we ponder great historical events we can see that thought and action live within one another, that they are interlaced in togetherness; action is, on the one side, planned and fed...
If I Hadn’t Met Them This article covers the story of a young student’s understanding of the theory of evolution. In common with many children, I took a great interest in living organisms and in matters related to them. Later, this interest was to play a very important part in...
The Good, And The Bad And Ugly: Western Cinema Images The image (rather than the word) has come into power as a result of technological possibilities not available before the second half of this century. First Western cinema and then Western television have been used to embed particular negative images...
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Christian Eschatology Christian eschatology is a major branch of study within Christian theology dealing with the “last things.” Eschatology, from two Greek words meaning “last” (ἔσχατος) and “study” (-λογία), is the study of ‘end things’, whether the end of an individual life, the end of the age, the end of...
Feeling Feeling was originally used to describe the physical sensation of touch through either experience or perception. The word is also used to describe other experiences, such as “a feeling of warmth” and of sentience in general. In psychology, the term feeling is closely related to emotion, and usually refers to the conscious subjective experience of emotions. The study of subjective...
Sympathy Sympathy is the perception, understanding, and reaction to the distress or need of another life form. According to David Hume, this sympathetic concern is driven by a switch in viewpoint from a personal perspective to the perspective of another group or individual who is in need. Hume explained that this is the...
Teresa Of Ávila Teresa of Ávila (born Teresa Sánchez de Cepeda y Ahumada; 28 March 1515 – 4 or 15 October 1582), also called Saint Teresa of Jesus, was a Spanish noblewoman who was called to convent life in the Catholic Church. A Carmelite nun, prominent Spanish mystic, religious reformer, author, theologian of the contemplative life and of mental prayer, she earned...
Vaccination And Religion Vaccination and religion have interrelations of varying kinds. No major religions prohibit vaccinations, and some consider it an obligation because of the potential to save lives. However, some people cite religious adherence as a basis for opting to forego vaccinating themselves or their children. Historical The influential Massachusetts preacher Cotton Mather was the...
Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) is an approach to psychotherapy that uses cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) methods in collaboration with mindfulness meditative practices and similar psychological strategies. It was originally created to be a relapse-prevention treatment for individuals with major depressive disorder (MDD). A focus on MDD and cognitive processes distinguishes MBCT from other mindfulness-based therapies. Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR),...
Environmental Philosophy Environmental philosophy is a branch of philosophy that is concerned with the natural environment and humans’ place within it. It asks crucial questions about human environmental relations such as “What do we mean when we talk about nature?” “What is the value of the natural, that is non-human environment to us, or in...
Nature Conservation Nature conservation is the moral philosophy and conservation movement focused on protecting species from extinction, maintaining and restoring habitats, enhancing ecosystem services, and protecting biological diversity. A range of values underlie conservation, which can be guided by biocentrism, anthropocentrism, ecocentrism, and sentientism, environmental ideologies that inform ecocultural practices and identities. There has recently been a movement towards evidence-based...
What Is Ecology? Ecology or ecological science, is the scientific study of the distribution and abundance of living organisms and how these properties are affected by interactions between the organisms and their environment. The environment of an organism includes both the physical properties, which can be described as the sum of local abiotic factors like...
Biophysical Environment A biophysical environment is a biotic and abiotic surrounding of an organism or population, and consequently includes the factors that have an influence in their survival, development, and evolution. A biophysical environment can vary in scale from microscopic to global in extent. It can also be subdivided according to its attributes. Examples include the marine environment, the atmospheric...
