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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…)


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…)


“I only do the math”, left brain exposes

“I am through with it. I wonder which sick minds could conceive that I am in charge of this world, and how such a nonsensical idea can have become so popular. I cannot stand the pressure anymore, (more…)


Mind saliva

Behaviorism (brief reminder-please skip the whole paragraph if you know about the term): the Russian Ivan Pavlov made a famous experiment. First he showed a piece of meat to a group of dogs while (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…)


Cage if you care

One of the main problems you can encounter in teamwork is what is usually called “highly emotional (more…)


Considerations on the dump

I try to be optimistic, I really do, but obviously, being interdependent as humans are, one cannot pretend to be almighty and fully detach oneself from (more…)


A person carrying a suitcase

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


You don’t need philosophy, do you?

The issue rose in a recent conversation with a close relative of mine: “philosophy is not necessary for life”, said the relative, in a somewhat disdainful tone.

It is important to notice that, in the context of this conversation, the word “philosophy” was indeed used (more…)