CULTURE
Culture is humanity's historically accumulated spiritual experience, which is used as a tool for continuous transformations—of both humans and the environment—and provides perspectives for social and spiritual development for individuals and humanity in the most favorable and least critical directions. This is how culture is defined by cultural studies scholars, who determine its mission. However, this mission is far from being realized in society, although culture permeates all areas and states of social life without exception. Thoughts about culture as a process or tool for improvement, progress, and perfection can be found in the works of many remarkable people from both the past and the present.
LANDMARKS OF CULTURE
Culture is the best creation of humanity; it embodies cultural values, the essence of society, which we as people must collectively safeguard and enhance through creative work.
Culture is the synthesis of spirit and matter, encompassing all that is sacred, cognitive, and beautiful; it is the unity of ethics, knowledge, and beauty, the fusion of religion, science, and art.
Culture is a means of human and societal development and improvement.
Culture is a means to achieve peace, a tool to solve society's deviations, wars, destruction; it is a way of peaceful life-building.
Culture is enlightenment.
Culture is what guides humans to the Highest Principle.
Culture encompasses only high ethical and aesthetic concepts, including love for humanity and love for nature.
Culture is quality work, creative and constructive (both mentally and physically), joyful and inspiring, directed towards the common good, for the benefit of society, for the development of nature and humanity, for self-improvement.
Culture is an endeavour carried out every day in life.
Culture is a life-affirming principle that brings Light.
Culture is the worship of Light, the service of Light.
Culture is spirituality; in all works and manifestations of Culture the heart's fire burns (Culture fades where the heart fades.).
Culture is eternal and indestructible, unlike civilizations.
Culture is holistic and unified.
Culture is not the antithesis of civilization; through harmonious interaction, culture and civilization are complementary principles.
Culture is evolution.
N.K. Roerich
Culture is holistic and unified.
N.K. Roerich
INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION
The cultural heritage of the peoples of all countries is included in the common heritage of humanity. The awareness that cultural heritage is something common to everyone, that it is the spiritual value of a citizen of the world, is important for young people to more easily understand their own nation, their cultural heritage and the international space, the cultural heritage of nations and the world around them. This is the only way they will become citizens of the world, understand the social system and know how to put events in the world into context, develop in the direction of becoming a better person.
APRIL 15ih – INTERNATIONAL DAY OF CULTURE
On April 15th, we celebrate the International Day of Culture, which is based on the peace ideas of the Roerich Pact (1935). The holiday is intended to raise the awareness of the masses, especially the younger generations, that the "Cultural heritage of all nations is the common heritage of humanity" and that the implementation of Culture as a spiritual value leads to the establishment of peace - Peace through Culture!
Nicolas Roerich (1874-1947), a citizen of the world, Russian painter, philosopher, scientist, writer and poet, humanist, Mahatma, all-round genius, literary giant, Messiah of Culture, and messenger of cosmic evolution, developed a completely new concept of Culture, which is permeated with the ideas of Living Ethics and has practical evolutionary significance. For Roerich, Culture is a spiritual value, without which neither man, the planet, nor the cosmos can exist. The task of Culture is the rise of the Spirit, it is a life-creating force that leads man to perfection.
"We will hear about the World Day of Culture when all schools and educational organizations have one day dedicated to raising awareness of national and world cultural treasures." N.K. Roerich.
