Here I am

My name is Alex Rovira Celma.

I was born on the first of March 1969, in Barcelona.

I am an avid reader. Among my favourite authors are Víctor Frankl, Ken Wilber, Abraham Maslow, Hermann Hesse, Erich Fromm, André Compte-Esponville, José Luís Sampedro, Emilio Lledó, Cristophe André, Elisabeth Lukas, Alan Watts, Alice Miller, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Antonio Blay, Annie Marquier, Rüdiger Dahlke, Carlos Castaneda, Aurobindo, Krishnamurti, Nissargadatta Maharah, Jean Klein, Roberto Assagioli, Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Alejandro Jodorowsky.

Reading poetry is something else I am very fond of: Antonio Machado, Miguel Hernández, Juan Ramón Jiménez, Pablo Neruda, Mario Benedetti, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Miquel Martí i Pol, Walt Whitman, Rabindanath Tagore, Ángel González, Eugenio Montejo, Víctor Pozanco, David Escamilla and many others.

I feel a special weakness for the works of JRR Tolkien and for authors or compilers of traditional tales such as Anthony de Mello, Idries Shah, Enrique Mariscal or Mamerto Menapace.

I am thrilled by psychology in general. Particularly all of the tools relating to psychotherapy rigorously and lovingly applied. I believe deeply in the transforming power of the word, particularly by way of tales, of which someone said that “they are written to make children sleep and adults wake up”. I firmly believe in psychological therapy as an indispensable daily ingredient for continuously refocusing life. I believe that all human beings are, in essence, positive and have enormous potential for development.

I refuse to give up on utopia. I think that today, more than ever, we need highly practical idealists, people who have their feet on the ground but long for the stars. I think resignation is everyday suicide. I believe everyone is responsible clearly not just for his own life but also for contributing with his work to an improvement of the life of others and for leaving a legacy in the form of service, peace, health, welfare, prosperity, love and conscience.

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