The most unwanted sensation in this world is bitterness, and yet at the same time, the most preferred sensation is bitterness. The most terrible thing about bitterness is that it is contagious. The bitterness of Adolf Hitler was transmitted to other Germans, who then carried out genocide against the harmless…
The countenance of the light
The light bears no opposition. Darkness and light appear as two opposites, but not. If one brings light where darkness prevails, darkness vanishes, not the light. Darkness cannot withstand light—hence, cannot be treated as the opposite. In any group, united with a common objective, there would always be some differences…
The power of empathy
Some women, having been ill-treated by men, may suppose that men are unpredictable and different from women. Similarly, men who would have had hard times with women might assume women to be difficult to handle. The same goes for racial dispositions of humanity. Blacks assume that whites are different from…
Jesus is not for worship purposes
This will shock some people, but Jesus is Lord, only to those having received the Holy Spirit. His Lordship is based on the fact that His teachings are supreme. The rest of humanity knows Jesus as the Son of Man and not as the Son of the living God. Nevertheless,…
The future is more valuable than the present
Jesus’ teachings are not complicated. However, the trick to understanding Jesus is in appreciating and unlearning most, if not all of the previous teachings. The process of unlearning is complicated when assuming to know what is unknown. Jesus brought a simple formula, enabling grasping everything He taught. He called a…
Good and bad represent positive and negative
The material universe is sustained by two energies moving in opposite directions. The significance distinguishes life and death, being the opposites, represented in good and bad. The bad or negative, while representing death; is harmless without being in contact with good or positive material. The two forces of energy represent…
Description of true personal identity
Among three simple questions, one helps an enquirer discover the true identity of an individual: “Who are you?” “What are you?” And “why were you born?” Without asking the right question, any personality test can be deficient in vital information about a person’s identity. The curriculum vitae or resume of…
Mockery is a blessing and not a degradation
God physically blessed the Israelites, in the Promised Land in Canaan. The Israelites were expected to obey God’s statutes, given to them, through Moses. If they deviated from those laws, they would receive curses, rather than blessings. Comfort was as accessible as obeying God’s laws. The same applies to nonChristians,…
The unveiling of the plank in the eye
Survival has been the aim of humanity, ever since creation. Strangely it is by choice that humans pursue routes toward demise, rather than towards survival. Jesus said a person loses life when aiming at saving the same life and yet gains life when losing physical life for Jesus’ sake. As…
The greatness in foot-washing
One of the most effective tools of teaching is demonstration. As effective a teacher as Jesus was, everything that He taught to his disciples was summarized in foot-washing. Among the most important lessons that can be adopted from the teachings of Jesus, nothing surpasses foot-washing. Jesus instructed His disciples to…