We are all different. This statement may seem obvious, but often the most obvious statements need to be questioned and explored the most, precisely because we question them the least. Although we all share the essential experience of being human, each of us filters that experience through our own characteristics, prior knowledge and experience, and … Read more
The question of free will is one of the oldest and most enduring questions faced by humanity. It was contemplated by the ancient Greeks in their tragedies, such as in King Oedipus, where it appears that the hero’s fate is predetermined, regardless of his efforts to prevent or change it. The Greeks, and their cultural … Read more
The term attention is often used in everyday speech: parents warn children to be attentive at school; teachers tell students: “Pay attention to …”; if we collide with a passerby on the street, we will hear: “Watch where you’re going!” What is attention and how important is it for our lives? Does the meaning and … Read more
Day by day, and much longer than we suppose, we use our senses, our five senses. That’s why it’s necessary to direct our attention towards them and start practicing it in our daily lives. Touch is a reaction of our skin’s sensitivity to contact with objects. It allows us to perceive coldness, warmth, softness, roughness… … Read more
Ancient teachings define memory as an indicator of our loyalty to ourselves. Indeed, memory allows us to store experiences and to revive and recognize them as part of our own existence and identity through recollection. It is the keeper of our entire experience, everything we recognize as our own personality. It is unnecessary to emphasize … Read more
< p > Although several centuries separate us from the intellectual revolution started by Giordano Bruno, we still gladly join it. It begins with increasing the capacity of our memory, in other words, it relates to knowledge about how to live. Instead of passing through life like a leaf in the wind, we can gather … Read more
Chronic fatigue Lack of awareness of what we are doing – not being present in what we are doing – exhausts us much more than if we forced ourselves to actively participate in every act. This accumulated fatigue increasingly shortens the periods of our ability to be productive. Running and not breathing, succumbing to selfish … Read more
What we could recently hear from the mouths of wise men from all cultures, gurus, mystics and esotericists, is now acknowledged by modern science – that our thoughts have created our world and continue to do so. It is now known that negative thinking weakens our immune system, so it is really important what we … Read more
Today, it is a well-known fact that reading or telling stories to children from a young age has many developmental benefits. Let’s just mention a few: stories can help improve language and communication skills, develop a child’s brain through the ability to focus attention, help connect and express emotions, learn about the world and nature, … Read more
