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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…)


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…)


The “insult trap”

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Here is a trick mind plays very often on us, and on which I comment for the sake of those who, like me, are engaged with their own internal development and rise of consciousness. If I talk about it, abandoning all kind of embarrassment, is not because (more…)


A person carrying a suitcase

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


A crisis is an opportunity and we’re losing it

There were so many times when I wished I was dead in the “perfect” world we had 10 or 15 years ago, that my views on what we now call “the crisis” might have, at least, (more…)


A reader is not a steamroller

Yes, we read a lot more than before. But is it quality reading? The spirit of each age modifies our habits and perceptions, and (more…)


What’s so charming about computing?

The advent of Internet, the changes it has and is forcing in a very short little time, has been a shock. A positive one, maybe, but still a shock. It is not new, though: I still remember my first toying around with an 8-bit computer, in those days when computers were isolated one from another. That tiny fever was the seed of what we have now. But what is it that keeps us so hooked on computers? And where to set the limit between proper use and orgy?

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There’s nothing wrong with being a freak

Today let me sing a little chant in favor of originality and personal difference.

We live tough times for originality. Our globalized world has turned all ranges of human experience into very standard patterns, so all of us are very alike, and most of passions have become collective. Even in those cases when (more…)