{"id":11193,"date":"2014-10-24T13:16:53","date_gmt":"2014-10-24T11:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/site\/?p=11193"},"modified":"2017-06-07T14:20:22","modified_gmt":"2017-06-07T12:20:22","slug":"%d9%85%d9%82%d8%a7%d9%84-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a3%d9%86%d8%a8%d8%a7-%d8%a5%d8%b1%d9%85%d9%8a%d8%a7-%d9%85%d9%85%d9%86-%d8%a3%d8%aa%d8%b9%d9%84%d9%85%d8%9f-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%8a%d9%88%d9%85","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/%d9%85%d9%82%d8%a7%d9%84-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a3%d9%86%d8%a8%d8%a7-%d8%a5%d8%b1%d9%85%d9%8a%d8%a7-%d9%85%d9%85%d9%86-%d8%a3%d8%aa%d8%b9%d9%84%d9%85%d8%9f-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%8a%d9%88%d9%85\/","title":{"rendered":"On Life 49 \u2013 Who Can I Learn from? \u2013 October 24, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u00a0 \u00a0I speak of life. Who does not live its pains, smiles, and confusion? Who doesn\u2019t learn a new lesson every day? Who doesn\u2019t seek milestones that encourage and strengthen him?<\/span><\/h2>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0I speak of life: for it is everybody\u2019s story, one of toil and struggle, success and failure, progress and regression. Either it ends in success, or in consecutive failures. People live and learn. They can improve their steps toward eternity.<\/span><\/h2>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0I speak of life and its lessons which are quite deep when they are applied. A sage said,\u00a0\u201cMake silence your virtue: for, through it, you listen to others\u2019 mistakes and avoid them.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0Another said,\u00a0\u201cI learnt wisdom from others\u2019 mistakes; whenever I see a mistake, I don\u2019t make it.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0All of us find lessons they can learn.<\/span><\/h2>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0I liked a story about a person who asked a sage,\u00a0\u201cWho can I learn from?\u201d<\/span>\u00a0The sage answered,\u00a0\u201cLearn from whoever passes by you.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0Here, I would like to say that you should learn from the biography of whoever goes through others\u2019 lives and experiences: for these are transmitted amongst humans. Whoever reads them adds years to his life. Also, there are other experiences that a person\u2019s life cannot accommodate.<\/span><\/h2>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0Life is a route that ends in one destiny. So, tackling it, its ways and situations makes man wait and think of his conditions and actions, and learn from others. Instead of putting out a candle that lights your and others\u2019 path, learn how to preserve it: for nothing except leading a dark route happens if every person puts out another\u2019s candle. In effect, everybody gets confused and falls into failure.<\/span><\/h2>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0Thus, each person should help his fellows to tread a luminous route. This will inevitably lead them to achieving success. Life is too short to be wasted in hatred and demolition. Rather, it is God\u2019s gift for edification. Whoever wants to edify should have the power of love within him which is the miraculous power that can edify. You can edify if you love yourself correctly and love others, and learn to love what you do. You can edify when your heart is filled with love for the Loving God.<\/span><\/h2>\n

General Bishop<\/span><\/h2>\n

Head of the Coptic Orthodox Cultural Center<\/span><\/h2>\n

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\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0I speak of life. Who does not live its pains, smiles, and confusion? Who doesn\u2019t learn a new lesson every day? Who doesn\u2019t seek milestones that encourage and strengthen him? \u00a0 \u00a0I speak of life: for it is everybody\u2019s story, one of toil and struggle, success and failure, progress and regression. Either […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":10623,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[6804,8706,6385,170,1007],"class_list":["post-11193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","tag-on-life","tag-who-can-i-learn-from","tag-youm7","tag-170","tag-1007"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11193"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47671,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11193\/revisions\/47671"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}