Archive for the 'Words of Wisdom' Category

Peaceful Warrior’s 21 Teachings

Tuesday, August 7th, 2007

Knowledge is Not Wisdom - Knowledge is theory (know how to do something), wisdom is practice (doing that something). How many times you find yourself in this situation: you now how to do something good for you and others, but you don’t do it. Let’s give an example: you know that exercising daily is more […]

Internal and External Thieves of Time

Wednesday, July 25th, 2007

Every day is a new step for humanity in conquering the world … but what’s left for men to conquer?! … maybe just Time …”Time as a final frontier”. Time was suggestively defined by Saint Augustine: “if no one is asking me, I know what time is, but if I have to explain it to […]

Consciousness-Raising Events

Thursday, June 21st, 2007

At a given time our consciousness has a certain range of understanding and comprehending the world around us. Usually our consciousness boundaries are given by the criterion of familiarity. If we are familiar with something then we haven’t many problems in deeply understanding it. But once one thing is beyond our familiarity, it challenges our […]

In The Beginning There Is Education – Education as Programming

Thursday, February 8th, 2007

There are two major factors that contribute decisively to our personal development: heredity and environment. Education is the most important element of the environment. Chronologically, in the beginning there is heredity and not education. But I want to focus on what we as individuals can control and change and not on what is beyond our […]