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CHILDREN

Khalil Gibran wrote one of the most beautiful poems ever written about children. I quote a fragment of it here, a couple of verses, from memory...

LOVING GRATITUDE

Gratitude is loving and invites love. For both the giver and the receiver of gratitude, it opens the door to sharing, to recognising and...

UP IN THE CLOUDS

I like being up in the clouds. Yes, I do. Once in a while, absent-mindedly, meditating, thinking, threading ideas together, my imagination...

LONGANIMITY

Do you know the meaning of “longanimity”? This rarely-used word is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as “Patience or...

STOPPING

Sometimes it’s a good idea to halt, take a stop, break your inertia. What for? It’s not just a matter of physical, mental and emotional...

STONES IN YOUR SHOES

“He who walks softly goes far”, says the Chinese proverb. It would seem to suggest that if you want to travel the path of life comfortably...

BEING BORN

“The aim of life is to be fully born, though its tragedy is that most of us die before we are thus born. To live is to be born every moment,”...

PATHS

I took this photo in Menorca, a couple of weeks ago, after the talk I was fortunate enough to give at the beautiful Teatro Principal in Maó, the...

SMALL “GREAT” PLEASURES

Sitting on a simple plastic chair in his white vest, he calmly, placidly smokes a thick cigar, always at the same time, always in the same...

Divine words

What we say or write is much more than just sound or print: we build our own world with it. Words are the spirit’s vehicle for contact with...

CHILDREN AND THE WORLD

Sorolla painted a Mediterranean of lapping waves, of gentle breezes, of exquisite women with their dresses fluttering in the wind, of children...

LIBERTY, EQUALITY, FRATERNITY

Joan Melé is a good friend of mine. He’s a wonderful, brave, coherent person and a superb professional. I had the honour of writing the...

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