A great man is one who collects knowledge the way a bee collects honey and uses it to help people overcome the difficulties they endure - hunger, ignorance and disease!
- Nikola Tesla

Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
- Franklin Roosevelt

While their territory has been devastated and their homes despoiled, the spirit of the Serbian people has not been broken.
- Woodrow Wilson

Први форум Српског института у Вашингтону

Први форум Српског института из Вашингтона одржан је 23. новембра у присуству угледних чланова дипломатије Србије и Грчке.

Председница Српског института Данијела Сремац истакла је да се најбитније одлуке које се односе на Балкан и цео свет доносе у Вашингтону и да пројекти Института раде за интересе српског народа.

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„Српски институт је основан марта ове године са циљем да се представе стручна мишљења путем књига, чланака, преко видео снимака и састанка са члановима Конгреса и америчке владе, са академским институцијама, медијима и јавношћу. Планирамо да одржимо Српске Дане на “Кепитол Хилу“ да предамо важне књиге о нашој култури члановима Конгреса. Планирамо да снимимо филм о Србији и да снимимо видео емисије за интернет на енглеском“, рекла је Сремац.

На Форуму су говорили и председник Одбора Института Алекс Мачески, амбасадор Србије у САД Владимир Петровић, политички саветник грчке амбасаде у САД Антонис Папакостас. Професор Елефдејриос Мајкл говорио је о грчком и кипарском искуству на путу ка ЕУ примењено на Србију, а економиста и члан Одбора Института Виктор Пригл о економском развоју Србије.

Извор: Владa Републике Србије - Канцеларија за сарадњу с дијаспором и Србима у региону


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Nicholas James Vujicic (/ˈvɔɪtʃɪtʃ/ voy-chich; Serbian: Николас Џејмс Вујичић, Nikolas Džejms Vujičić; born 4 December 1982) is a Serbian Australian evangelist and motivational speaker born with tetra-amelia syndrome, a rare disorder characterised by the absence of all four limbs. As a child, he struggled mentally and emotionally as well as physically, but eventually came to terms with his disability and, at the age of seventeen, started his own non-profit organisation, Life Without Limbs. Vujicic presents motivational speeches worldwide, on life with a disability, hope and finding meaning in life. He also speaks about his belief that God can use any willing heart to do his work and that God is big enough to overcome any and all disabilities.

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The Meaning of Reality

Essays on Existence and Communion, Eros and History

by Christos Yannaras

The collection of articles traces the thought of Christos Yanaras through his long journey in discovering the meaning of existence, communion, eros, and history. It is a cause of immense joy that no fewer than twenty articles of passionate significance and substance have at present been gathered together in this volume under the title The Meaning of Reality.

Yannaras is undoubtedly one of the most significant thinkers of our time. Kallistos Ware once described him as "the most creative and prophetic religious thinker at work in Greece today," while Rowan Williams characterizes him as "one of the most significant Christian philosophers in Europe." His very wide and no less deep education helps him to develop an inimitable blend of philosophy, theology, and social criticism, and to speak in an original way about the traditional and contemporary issues of human existence, as well as the latest challenges of modern empirical science and political engagement. A detailed knowledge of the writings of the Holy Fathers has always been his foundation amidst the labyrinth of modern thought - which is inimately bound up with psychoanalysis, environmental issues, human rights, postmodernism, and pluralism , to mention just a few. Insistence on the primacy, uniqueness, and eternal value of human personality prevails in almost all his works and inspires his own vigorous theological and ecumenical engagement, based on the Orthodox eucharistic and ascetic tradition.