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Here One Studies: Brain and Heart Are Formed

On Earth, the Spirit of human beings is the beginning of everything in the social field. It cannot be modified by decree.

Clearly the laws that promote education, health, food, employment, and therefore, better living conditions are going to give a result if they are well structured, regulated, and respected. However, a person cannot be truly transformed by pure and simple imposition.

This is extensive work that, in addition to instructing and educating, must mainly re-educate, which means: to illuminate common education with the light of Ecumenical Spirituality. Throughout thousands of years of intellectual progress, human culture has been based in general terms on the false prospect that human beings can achieve complete fulfillment by way of material goods or circumstances outside themselves. A great effort of individual will and inner discipline is necessary to break the ignorance and perceive that the greatest and most complete of all riches, which is the Kingdom of God, is within us (The Gospel of Jesus according to Luke 17:21).

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Albert Einstein

We draw comfort from the knowledge that the Universe is endowed with a wise mechanism for rescuing us from earthly nightmares, provided we are really determined to leave them behind. An old oriental saying teaches us that “when the disciple is ready, the master appears.” And Albert Einstein (1879-1955) defines it thus: “God is subtle, but He is not malicious.”

I insist that this is not just expanding the cultural horizons of students, which is necessary but it is not all. Generally, when we talk about culture in this world it is summed up only as intellect and this is not enough. In the Good Will Educational Complex in São Paulo and in its schools throughout the country, we find prominently displayed right at the entrance: Here one studies. Brain and Heart are formed.

Vivian R. Ferreira

Light and Spiritual Wisdom

Those who experience, however little it may be, the divine scenarios that live in their Souls are no longer shaped by the superficial and ephemeral rewards of selfishness. On the contrary, they will fight unceasingly to throw off the illusions of their egos in order to put on the sparkling fabric of universal Love and Justice. This spontaneous metamorphosis of the individual—a discovery of their true spiritual identity—is the safe and long-lasting formula for the longed-for reform of society, which will not come in all its fullness if the Spirit of citizens is not taken into high consideration.

Tela: Sátyro Marques (1935-2019)

Title of the artwork: The Blessing

The New Heaven of the conscience of each individual, generating the New Earth of harmony and respect among all people in Religion, in Politics, in Science, in Sports, in Art, in Economics, in domestic and public life, and so on, is to establish on the planet the civilization that the Divine Statesman awaits from us.

José de Paiva Netto (1941-2025), a writer, journalist, radio broadcaster, educator, composer, poet, the President Emeritus and Consolidator of the Legion of Good Will, and Spiritual Leader of the Religion of God, of the Christ, and of the Holy Spirit. He was an effective member of the Brazilian Press Association (ABI) and the Brazilian International Press Association (ABI-Inter), a member of the National Federation of Journalists (FENAJ), the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), the Union of Professional Journalists of the State of Rio de Janeiro, the Union of Writers of Rio de Janeiro, the Radio Broadcasters Union of Rio de Janeiro, the Brazilian Union of Composers (UBC), and the Academy of Letters of Central Brazil. He became an internationally recognized author in the defense of human rights and in his concepts of Ecumenical Citizenship and Ecumenical Spirituality, which, in his own words, represent “the cradle of the most generous values that are born of the Soul, the dwelling of emotions and of reasoning enlightened by intuition; the atmosphere that embraces everything that transcends the ordinary field of matter and comes from elevated human sensitivity, such as Truth, Justice, Mercy, Ethics, Honesty, Generosity, and Fraternal Love. In short, the mathematical constant that harmonizes the equation of spiritual, moral, mental, and human existence. Now, without the understanding that we exist on two planes―not only on the physical plane―it will be difficult to build a Society that is truly Ecumenical, Altruistic, and Solidary, since we would still be ignoring that the knowledge of Superior Spirituality elevates the character of creatures and, consequently, leads to the construction of the Planetary Citizenship.”