The most difficult part of thinking is love, respect, sincerity, responsibility, and loyalty. But when put to practice, it brings out the beauties of life.

This is because people grasp life’s fabric, scent, and its visible and invisible dimensions through the spirit of these five things (love, respect, sincerity, responsibility, loyalty). They get a taste life through this spirit. They find meaning in life as long as the can preserve this spirit. They find the meaning of life. They bring its blind spots to light.

If we are the branches of the vine, we have to serve our sphere by remaining in the vine and with the power of love, not the love of power. We have to carry out our responsibilities. Our sterility must transform into productivity.

Lest we forget, “Trees bear fruit as long as they remain alive, and humans remain alive as long they bear fruit.”

In that case, we must firstly give healthy fruit to people and to our communities for our own life energy and peace of mind. We must be capable of giving...!

We must not get tired or sick of giving. We must give without sinking into a spirit of arrogance, pride, and supremacy...!

We must know that to love and to act, we need heart; to enhance and sustain, we must work.

Malfono Yusuf Beğtaş

President of the Syriac Association of Language, Culture and Literature