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
Who can more fervently encourage virtue than a speaker? Who can more sharply deter wickedness? Who can more vehemently rebuke evildoers? Who can more beautifully praise the good? Whose attack can more powerfully break greed? Whose consolation can more gently silence pain? For what is as foolish as the empty sound of words, highly chosen … Read more
Acting and Growing Learning becomes valuable when it penetrates the mind, emotions, and actions. It is precisely at this last point that we encounter the greatest difficulties. Thoughts and emotions are relatively easy to express well, but it is very difficult to take a step further and apply the learning in life. Violence or courage … Read more
