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Posts Tagged ‘Compassion’

The key, if you ask me…

“What the world needs is…” A common sentence, with probably 6,500,000,000 different endings, one for each of the inhabitants of this troubled world of us. I recently had a ‘gestalt’ of my personal answer, one of those moments in which you see the whole picture as a whole (snap!). Here it goes for what is worth. (more…)


Lessons from an old pair of pants

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I think we all have them. Those pieces of clothing which have gone with us through the ages, that favorite t-shirt that is not black anymore but it’s comfortable (more…)


One quote and two warnings

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It looked like a good idea at first, but I hesitated a lot and in the end I did not add the following quote by Charles Darwin to my database: (more…)


The house on fire and the blackest of mists

The house has been on fire ever since it was built. Maybe even while it was being built. It has become a tradition to think of the house in connection with flames, just like one cannot conceive a piano without keys or (more…)


Learning how to learn

Here’s a story about the difference between efficiency and effectiveness. A few summers ago, I was spending some days with my family at the beach. One morning, I went to the balcony and found certain relative of mine, not very intelligent, who was (more…)


Femiline / Mascunine

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A short remembrance from one of my latest sentimental relations, and what I learned from it. All in all, just a resource to think aloud about one of those issues (more…)


A person carrying a suitcase

When I see a person carrying a suitcase, I try to (more…)