...Volume I - The Way of Illumination Section II - The Inner Life Chapter VI THE LAW OF THE INNER LIFE Those who live the inner life begin to see a law which is hidden from the average man. There is the law of nature which is known as science, and that of life which is called moral law; but beyond science and morals there is another law. It may be called occult law, or in other words inner law; a law which can be understood by an open heart and an awakened soul. This law manifests to the view of the seer in many and varied forms; sometimes it appears in a quite contrary form to the effect that it has later on in its manifestation. The eye of the seer becomes a sword which cuts open, so to speak, all things, including the hearts of men, and sees clearly through all they contain; but it is cutting open which is at the same time healing. In the Quran it is said, 'He who taught with the pen, taught man that which he knew not.' And what does that mean? It means that to the man who lives the inner life, everything that he sees becomes a written character and this whole visible world a book. He reads it as plainly as a letter written by his friend. And besides this, he hears a voice within which becomes to him a language. It is an inner language; its words are not the same as the words of the external language. It is a divine language. It is a language without words which can only be called a voice, and yet it serves as a language. It is like music which is as clear as a language...
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...that one of the drivers on drugs while operating the vehicle. The authorities are investigated if the drugs were perception or not perception. MANAGERIAL PERSPECTIVE The legal issue which this accident is one of the highlighted issue because the authority thinks that the driver was under influence of drugs. Now they need to make sure if the drugs were prescription or non prescription drugs. This accident occurred in the heart of New York. Time square is the busiest place in New York because they main Station is there for buses and trains. And someone driving under the influence of drugs should be fired because that in endangerment to the public and to themselves. Not only the driver is risking his/her life they are risking other peoples life as well. The result of this was 14 people were injured no one killed the authorities are going to look into he surveillance video and see whose fault it really was because the 2 buses were from the same company. People need to realized that when they are not able to be on the road then don’t take any further action rather stay home and be safe. This was a minor loose for a company because the both buses were from the same company. The company was only sued by the people that were hurt rather then the other...
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...Assess sociological views of the impact of government policies and laws on family life. There are many different views of how government policies and laws affect family life among different sociological theorists. Some view government policies as positive whereas some see the impact as positive. Feminists argue that many government policies promote the patriarchal family and reinforces the women’s economic dependence on a man. Policies such as tax benefits and maternity leave are seen as negative policies as they promote the ideology of women being the main childcares in a relationship. Women are entitled to 9 months maternity leave whereas men are only able to receive 2 weeks paid paternity. Consequently, this means women are forced to be the parent that stays at home to look after the child as a couple would not be able to have financial stability if the man stayed at home for 9 months without pay. The new right also do not support these policies however for different reasoning. Feminists have a negative view on policies that insinuate that they have to care for their elders, as they believe the role of a caregiver to the sick and elderly should be shared between men and women equally and should be a women’s obligation. Although feminists are against laws that enforce the inequality between men and women they support policies that allow women to be independent from a patriarchal relationship, for example the divorce reform act and working tax credits. The divorce reform...
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...Association, along with priority, are powers that greatly influence your life. There always be something to be said about individualism, but who you associate with will reflect your own personal values. It will shape you, it can change your outlook on life, and it will affect your other relationships. “You are the company you keep.” When you choose your friends, you need to first assess yourself and who you are, and who you want to become. Your “company” is the people that have the most influence over you, and vice-versa. These people will have the most influence over you through peer pressure. Because of this, it is important to be careful who you are friends with. You especially need to understand your priorities in life. Priorities are the stepping stones to success. If you don’t have them, it will be very hard to reach the top. Once you have figured this out, only then will you be able to correctly choose who you want to befriend. It is important to know and understand the morals and desires and beliefs of who you are connecting with, and how it could affect you. Friends have a huge influence on your life, and you also have influence on other people, so think about your words, actions, and what you represent. I think that this quote and its surrounding idea is a major key in high school. It can make your life easier and more relaxing, or harder and more stressful. Who you associate yourself with, who you call your friends, your bros, your buds, represents who you are to...
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...American Dream/Laws of Life Essay This essay is rightfully named the “American dream essay contest”, and the fundamentals behind it are rightfully pulled from “10 Principles to Live By” as described by James P. Owen’s book Cowboy Ethics. The way of the American Cowboy represented is the path of hard work. This ideal is synonymous for the American dream. The ideas represented by the American Cowboy in the early years of the west, are the same ideas that this country was built for. Riding for the brand is an idea that spans across generations of Americans proud of the land they ride, till, and work. This idea is a true American dream and turns weak hearts into noble human beings with a work ethic unmatched. To ride for one's brand is to work hard enough at everything, to be proud to attach your family's name to it. Be proud of the effort, giving 100 percent or simply...
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...As a firm believer of the original Murphy’s law, I suppose I should have seen it coming. “If something bad can happen, it will happen,” and I find this phenomenon to be painfully accurate. For the first decade of my life, my family dodged the bullet. Unlike many aunts, uncles, and cousins, my parents were healthy, my sisters were happy and our day-to-day life was peaceful and rather uneventful. Things were going swell for my family, until tragedy struck and reality hit us hard across the face. The day my father was diagnosed with cancer was the day my childhood came to an abrupt end. It was the day that time stopped in it’s tracks, and a new life began. It was the beginning of my sophomore year in high school when my father sat my sisters and...
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...“Respect people's feelings. Even if it doesn't mean anything to you, it could mean everything to them”. -Unknown Respect. In a perfect world everyone should know how to respect each other. Unfortunately, we don't live in that world. My laws of life story is about respect, it's about how I disrespected a random stranger on the phone, for not knowing about the brownies I made. Let's go back and relive the situation. It was near the end of seventh grade. My friend Olivia came over. I wanted to make brownies so we agreed to make some. After we put them in the oven I started to get bored. “Let's go on a walk to the graveyard”. I said to Olivia She was cautious at first but decided it might be fun. The neighborhood I live in has a graveyard beside it, and beside the graveyard is the Green Local...
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...Death will touch everyone at some point in their life. It is a natural part of the life cycle for all living beings. Now not everyone views death as a natural occurrence and others seek to prevent it by prolonging life by medical means. Physician assisted suicide is a major topic in U.S. culture today. There are people who believe it is more humane to let someone live their days out and there are others who believe that it is morally wrong because it causes unnecessary pain and suffering. Each side has their argument points in which they defend with purpose. The purpose of this paper is to discuss both sides of the issue at hand here. It is also to discuss why physician assisted suicide is a viable option for the future for terminal illnesses. The first portion will discuss the present physician assisted suicide laws that are in place. Following that, the arguments that do not consider physician assisted suicide a viable option will be discussed and...
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...Cold Equations Everybody must deal with "Cold Equations" in his or her life. Whether it is death, heartbreak, having to go to school, crime, violence, family, all of us must come to grips with things we can't change. The author from this novel "Cold Equations" is trying to teach us that nature is unforgiving and no one can avoid it. Death is a cruel part of law of nature, it can take away someone's life and won't care about it. Everybody has to deal with the laws of nature, sometime in their life, we just have to deal with it and hope everything goes good. The laws of nature is always in a person's life, everybody copes with the inevitable and has to deal with their problems and the things we can't change. Everyone should enjoy their life to the fullest and don’t take any moment of your life for granted, because laws of nature could simply take everything away. The space frontier is desolate and must abide by the strict, cruel laws of nature. “The laws were, and the universe moved in obedience to them.” This is showing that the laws of nature have no morals; they are how they are and no one can change it. We should tell people how we feel about them when we can. We shouldn’t ignore the little things that we have done and we should tell people we love them, thank them, and say sorry for what we did to hurt them while we still have time. Accidents can happen out of nowhere and take the chances away to tell people how you feel about them. In the "Cold equations" Marilyn was an...
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...Sand 1 Gianina Sand English 1301-044 Professor Peterson 12 April 2015 Paper 5 Sharks need help Sharks rules the ecosystems. They balance the oceans, they balance earth. Sharks are on earth for over four hundreds millions years, one hundred million years before the dinosaurs when life has just began. Sharks were shaving the world. Sharks are afraid of us, they can sent our energy as soon as we are in the water. Two third of earth is under water and over 80% of life on earth is in the oceans. Life on earth evolves from the sea, and the animals who evolves and stayed for over four hundreds years are the sharks. They manages to survive, they are architect of our world. They are the lions and tigers of the sea. Sharks are in danger. They are hunted by humans for their fins with lines. The population does not realize the massacre that sharks are victims of. Predators are controlling the ecosystems.The oceans are the life support system of the planet, change this life support would be a real threat. The world is afraid of sharks and do not see the importance to help sharks or to save them. The first help requires by sharks conservators are to consider sharks as a real animal and stop thinking that sharks are a threat. The population does not realize the facts. Sharks kill five people each year, elephants and tigers over one hundred per year. The first solution to the sharks conservation problem would be to change the mentality of the population. There is a mythology...
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...When it comes to matters of thermodynamics, which is the study of energy and it’s transformations, there are two laws that apply to everything in the universe. These laws, known as the 1st and 2nd laws of thermodynamics, describe the flow of energy throughout an ecosystem, and also how the process of transferring energy provides the means to sustain life within it. The rainforest is a very complex ecosystem that contains many different species of animals, insects, plants, and trees. The 1st law states that an organism can not create the energy it needs to survive on it’s own and therefore must capture it from it’s surrounding environment, i.e., photosynthesis. During this process, solar energy from the sun absorbs into the plant and vegetation population, converting the chemical energy into sugar. Insects and animals in turn eat the plants, and then use that very same sugar as an energy source to power their movement. This is called biological work. The energy remaining is given off as heat and released back into the environment from which it originated. This ensures that the amount of energy present in the environment is always the same, as it is borrowed and returned, but never lost. The 2nd law simply states that the amount of energy that can be used to do biological work within the universe may decrease over time, however because it is both borrowed and returned, the total amount of energy present will not decrease, and therefore will always be the same. The rainforest...
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...Over the past century the United States have drastically had a negative impact on the ecosystem. We have put a hole in the ozone by burning fossil fuels to run our cars and light our houses. We have torn down countless forest to build highways and housing projects. We have littered the oceans and road sides. We have even run some species to or near extinction. However, with all of these negative impacts we have had, we have learned and adapted as we realize the fallacy in our ways. We now have numerous ways that we positively impact the ecosystem. We have open space laws, environmental regulations, recycling systems, waste regulations, national parks, reforestation plans, developed clean energy, and even protect endangered species. For every...
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...society. While robots becoming common existence in the world are one topic ablaze through conversation in the world, there are numerous more topics just as popular. Many others will be touched upon in this paper because science fiction is a channel in which people can speculate about the future and how people will impact it. Science fiction is a form of time travel where the mind and imagination can travel into the future and catch a glimpse of what life might me be in the near or far future. While the far future speculations are often romanticized with amazing technology and alien life, the near future is often peppered with a crumbling dystopian society. A future in which the world suffered through a cataclysmic event and society is held together by barely a thread. Judge Dred is one such example of a world that was mostly destroyed by nuclear fallout with only walled in megacities still stand. Inside the cities, crime is rampant and the only thing that stands between order and chaos are the Judges, a peacekeeping force that gives law enforcement officers the ability of judge, jury and executioner. Now nuclear fallout is a huge threat in the world today...
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...Biology and chemistry are complimentary to each other; one cannot be studied in its entirety without the firm understanding of the other. Interactions between chemicals are what make up biological life, which makes up organisms. Organisms are living structures made up of cells that consist of animals, plants, and bacteria. They are biologically engineered yet composed of a multitude of chemical reactions. By examining organisms, their premise of living is based off of their ability to create energy. Chemistry is vital to the understanding of biology as seen with the chemical interactions that make up thermodynamics. Thermodynamics pertains to the change in energy and heat that occurs in all of matter. It is divided into categories of isolated...
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...Court custody battles between biological parents can become very drawn-out and emotionally challenging to the court system, parents and the children. Judges are typically forced to make impossible decisions as to which parent will provide the best life for the children. With these as well as other complexities of life taken into account making decision of custody when the parties involved may not be the biological parents increases the emotional stress for the parent whether biological or not and the child or children involved. As this is a very difficult decision the solution is clear and concise. When looking at the ethics involved they do indeed support the decision rendered by the judge. The rules of the law are clear; custody of the child was given to the foster parents on a temporary basis. The court system never took all parenting rights from the biological parents in a manner where the foster parents were able to legally adopt the child. The care of the child was taken under serve scrutiny by the judge as the child’s biological parents proved that they were rehabilitated and demonstrated the sincere desire to raise their child along with the ability to provide a safe and prosperous life style. The judge was faced to weigh the damage done to the child by removing her from her foster parents and the damage the child may face in her future upon realizing her foster parents aren’t her biological parents. Both the rules based and care based primary schools of...
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