A Prayer for Turkey

Last night, a powerful earthquake struck southern Turkey, followed by a massive aftershock a few hours later. The devastation is horrendous and the casualties are in the thousands.

I pray for all my students in Turkey and for their families, especially those who were affected by the tragedy, I wish for their quick recovery, and I pray for the well-being and safety of all the citizens and residents of Turkey.

The first quake struck during my daily lesson, which I give every night between 02:45-05:30 Israel time, the same time zone as turkey. Yet, many of my students in Turkey braved the tremor and stayed throughout the lesson. I salute them. I am sure others would do the same, but they probably lost power, or worse.

So far, we know of at least one student who was affected by the quake, but we have no contact with the area so we have no details. I pray for all my students in Turkey and for their families, especially those who were affected by the tragedy, I wish for their quick recovery, and I pray for the well-being and safety of all the citizens and residents of Turkey.

Let us hope that soon, all of humanity will realize the folly of hatred and that we should truly become a family of nations, the way a family is meant to be. I am certain that if we find it in our hearts to care for one another the way we care for ourselves, our troubles will be but a memory lost in the mist of the past.

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What Can We Change?

Contrary to a lot of opinions, we do not have to change the economic, social and political structures, and other various superstructures in society.

We have to change ourselves. And we can do so by means of education.

Changing ourselves means changing our egoistic self-centered approach to life, which makes us want to enjoy at the expense of others and nature, to its opposite: an altruistic intention to benefit others and nature.

Changing ourselves means changing our egoistic self-centered approach to life, which makes us want to enjoy at the expense of others and nature, to its opposite: an altruistic intention to benefit others and nature.

The education we need in order to perform this change is one that guides us to positively connect through raising the importance of benefiting others over benefiting ourselves. It involves learning about the egoistic nature dwelling within us, the altruistic laws of nature outside of us, how these laws operate throughout nature’s still, vegetative, animate and human levels, how the universe and humanity constantly develop to higher and higher levels of unification, and how to willingly and consciously align ourselves with the higher unified form to which nature develops us.

We can change nothing without undergoing this self-transformation, because we each have to be at the foundation for any new changes that transpire.

We can change nothing without undergoing this self-transformation, because we each have to be at the foundation for any new changes that transpire. Also, today in particular, we are in a transitional period where we will increasingly feel pressure to undergo this change from our egoistic approach to life that detaches us from each other and nature, to an altruistic approach that connects us and brings us closer together and with nature. Moreover, undergoing this change will yield a new sensation of eternity and perfection the likes of which we have never experienced in our current egoistic makeup.