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

Никола Тесла о Америци

Текстови из часописа „Илектрикал икспериментер”

Заостаје век за Европом

Волео бих да могу да преточим у речи своје прве утиске о овој земљи. У „Причама из 1001 ноћи” читао сам како духови односе људе у свет снова, где их чекају прекрасни доживљаји. Мој случај је био управо супротан. Духови су ме пренели из света снова у свет стварности. Оно што сам оставио за собом било је прелепо, уметничко и фасцинантно у сваком смислу. Оно што сам овде затекао било је механизовано, грубо и недопадљиво.

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Један кршан полицајац вртео је палицом која ми се чинила дужа од цепанице. Љубазно му приђох и замолих га да ми каже како да стигнем до жељене адресе.

„Шест блокова кућа даље, овом улицом, а затим улево”, рече са убилачким погледом.

Да ли је ово Америка, упитах се болно изненађен. Један век заостаје за Европом по степену цивилизације.

Дух слободе и права

Мир може наступити само као природан исход универзалног просветљења и стапања раса, а ми смо још далеко од тог радосног остварења. С обзиром на моје виђење данашњег света, у светлу огромног сукоба, чији смо сведоци (Први светски рат), дубоко сам убеђен да би за интересе човечанства било најбоље ако би САД остале доследне својој традицији и држале се ван замки „савезништва”. С обзиром на географски положај и удаљеност од попришта неминовних сукоба, будући да нема побуда у правцу територијалног проширења, и на неисцрпне ресурсе и огромно становништво које је дубоко прожето духом слободе и права, ова земља се налази у јединственом, привилегованом положају. Захваљујући томе, у могућности је да своју колосалну енергију и моралну снагу разумније и делотворније упрегне у корист целог човечанства – самостално, а не као члан неког савеза.


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Marta Milosevic-Brankovic

Marta Milosevic-Brankovic was born in Belgrade, Serbia. She has captured the attention of audience and critics alike since her concerto debut at Ganz Rudolph Hall in Chicago in 2005 where one of the most famous pianists alive, Abbey Simon (Professor at the Juilliard School) personally attended the concert and highly acclaimed her performance of Bach and Chopin. At the age of six Marta took her first piano lesson and already a year later she played her first public concert. She was 21 when she graduated at the Music Art Academy in Belgrade as the youngest student with the highest GPA in the generation. She received her early musical training in class of Russian Professor Jakuthon Mlhailovich, a graduate from the Moscow Conservatory. At the same time she has also completed Media studies at the University of Art in Belgrade. During her studies, she worked with eminent artists from her country and auended a number of piano master courses of the following Professors: Sijavus Gadzijev (Moscow). Tamara Stefanovic (Koeln). Dr. David Abot (Zurich-New York), Dr. Tatjana Rankovich (New York), Dr. Omitry Rachmanov (Chicago-New York) and many others.

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Publishing

The Church at Prayer

by Archimandrite Aimilianos of Simonopetra

Publisher’s note

Many readers of the addresses of Elder Aimilianos, which have been published in the five-volume series, rchimandrite Aimilianos, Spiritual Instructions and Discourses (Ormylia, 1998-2003), have frequently expressed the wish for an abridged and more accessible form of his teaching. In response, we are happy to inaugurate a new series of publications incorporating key texts from the above-mentioned collection. Other considerations have also contributed o this new project, such as the selection of specific texts which address important, contemporary questions; the need for a smaller, more reader-friendly publication format; and the necessity for editing certain passages in need of clarification, without however altering their basic meaning.

Above all, the works collected in this volume reflect the importance which the Elder consistently attached to prayer, spirituality, community life, worship, and liturgy. Thus the experientially based works "On Prayer", and "The Prayer of the Holy Mountain", which deal primarily with the Prayer of the Heart, appear first, followed by the summary addresses on "The Divine Liturgy", and "Our Church Attendance". These are in turn followed by the more socially oriented discourses on "Our Relations with Our Neighbor", and "Marriage: The Great Sacrament". Finally, the present volume closes with the sermons on "Spiritual Reading" and "The Spiritual Life", which in a simple and yet compelling manner set forth the conditions for "ascending to heaven on the wings of the Spirit".

It is our hope that The Church at Prayer will meet the purpose for which it is issued and will serve as a ready aid and support for those who desire God and eternal life in Him.