We have been running around far too much. It's all right; we've been active, and our action has achieved a lot of good things. But as Aristotle pointed out long ago - and this is one of the good things about Aristotle. He said 'the goal of action is contemplation.' In other words, busy, busy, busy, busy, ...

Big means large or of great size. The Magic of Thinking Big is a self-help book by David Schwartz published in 1959. The book which has sold over 4 million copies, instructs people to set their goals high and think positively to achieve them. The author gives a step-by-step guide on how to achieve what one wants by ...

Greatness it’s just something we made up. We believe Greatness is a gift reserved for a chosen few. For prodigies and for superstars. And the rest of us can only stand by watching. You can forget that. Greatness is not some rare DNA strand. Greatness is not some precious thing. Greatness is no more unique to us than breathing. We are all capable of ...

Śrī Tathāta is an instrument of the Divine Will. Śrī Tathāta lives in the World with the cosmic mission to break the shield of darkness covering Human Consciousness. He has come to harmonise the now troubled energies of nature, to prompt the evolution of Human Consciousness and establish Divine life on Earth. At his birth, Sri Tathata ...

Lifelong Learning is the ongoing, voluntary, and self-motivated pursuit of knowledge for either personal or professional reasons. It not only enhances social inclusion, active citizenship, and personal development, but also self-sustainability, as well as competitiveness and employability. Lifelong Learning is lifelong, lifewide, voluntary, and self-motivated learning to learn, learning how to recognize learning strategies, and monitor and evaluate ...

Children's expanding cognitive abilities allow them to understand Time more clearly. - Two- and three-year-olds' understanding of Time is mainly limited to 'now and not now.' - Five- and six-year-olds can grasp the ideas of past, present, and future. - Seven- to ten-year-olds can use clocks and calendars. - Very young children literally 'live in Time' before gaining an Awareness ...

Stephen Hawking in particular has addressed a connection between Time and the Big Bang. In 'A Brief History of Time' and elsewhere, Hawking says that even if Time did not begin with the Big Bang and there were another time frame before the Big Bang. No information from events then would be accessible to us, and nothing ...

Death ... this tremendously important to think about. We put it off. Death is swept under the carpet in our culture. In the hospital they try to keep you alive as long as possible, in utter desperation. They won't tell you that you are going to die. They, when relatives have to be informed that ...

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is ...

The Lacrimosa is part of the poem Dies Irae which describes the Last Judgment, the last trumpet summoning souls before the throne of God. The saved will be delivered and the unsaved cast into eternal flames. The hymn is best known from its use as a sequence in the Roman Catholic Requiem Mass for the Dead or Funeral Mass. Belief in ...

In Hinduism, Brahman connotes the highest Universal Principle, the Ultimate Reality in the universe and  it is the material, efficient, formal and final cause of all that exists. It is the pervasive, genderless, infinite, eternal truth which does not change, yet is the cause of all changes. Brahman as a metaphysical concept is the single binding unity behind the diversity in all that exists in the ...

Nam Myoho Renge Kyo (Devotion to the Mystic Law of the Lotus Sutra) is the central mantra chanted within all forms of Nichiren and Tendai Buddhism is referred to as Daimoku. The practice of prolonged chanting is referred to as Shōdai while the purpose of chanting Daimoku is to reduce sufferings by eradicating negative Karma. Also reducing ...