Light from the old Arch: A search for meaning in a highly scientific and technological world.

Light from the old Arch

"In our age of modern science and technology, of automation and computerization, of globalization and space travel, will we finally find the answer to this perplexing quest - a search for meaning in a highly scientific and technological world?" - avr

Dr Abe V Rotor

A collection of 18 essays about life and living, 216 pages. Published by UST in 2000 with the Preface written by Fr. Jose Antonio Aureada, regent of the Graduate School.

"What is considered a religion of disconnection betrays man's inability to see sensuality through divinity and divinity through sensuality... 

It was Victor Frankl, a Jewish psychotherapist-philosopher, who popularized logotherapy, a word of Greek origin which literally means healing through meaning. Dr Abe. the poet-musician-painter-scientist rolled into one, reminds us of the Franklian inspired principle: 

The unheard cry for meaning if only well-heeded in all aspects of life - from the least significant to the extremely necessary, from the most commonplace to the phenomenally sublime - can only restore authenticity back to living life beautifully."

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In the Introduction of the book, Professor Paulino M Capitulo, curator of the JP Laurel Memorial Museum, and professor of the author in history, has this to say in an excerpt, as follows: 

"Man in his eternal guest for what he believes, more often than not, finds something better than what he expects - serendipity, that is - in the plethora of God-given gifts.  He strives to perfect things to his need only to realize that hidden behind the simplest organisms lies an iota of beauty hitherto completely ignored.  Man's harmony with nature is eloquently expressed in this concept where he unwittingly finds the interpretation of how and why the world came into being." ~

Arch of the Centuries of the University of Santo Tomas, Manila,

founded 1611

 Excerpt from the book, Springtime - Season of Metamorphosis

"It is easier to teach than to learn, to lecture than to share, to welcome than to accept, to accept than to forgive.  It may be easier to treat a friend than a brother, receive awards than to show recognition, walk up to the podium than stoop to lend a hand. How do we know endurance than sacrifice?  Responsibility from accountability? To help than to care?  Wake up, It is springtime."