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About José Luís Sampedro

Just over a year ago this exceptional, lucid, committed, wise man passed away. Although I paid him homage on another post on my blog Thoughts, I...

PEARL S. BUCK

“Many people lose the small joys while awaiting the great happiness”.   How often we have reflected and enjoyed this quote by...

RAMESH S. BALSEKAR

Ramesh Balsekar was a disciple of Advaita Master Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj (whom I dedicate another post on this blog) and undoubtedly the mail...

JORDI SAVALL

Passion found his reason: music is Jordi Savall what Jordi Savall is to music in the life of this artist and humanist born in Igualada,...

ANTONIO BLAY FONTCUBERTA

Considered the precursor of Transpersonal Psychology in Spain, this Barcelona-native (1924-1985) was brought up in a middle-class family and was...

ROSA PARKS

An iconic women in the struggle for civil rights in America, Rosa Louise McCauley –maiden name– was born in 1913 and raised in Tuskegee, a...

VIRGIL

The author of the poem in twelve books the ‘Aeneid’,  of the ‘Eclogues’ or ‘Bucolic’ and...

JOSÉ ORTEGA Y GASSET

A brilliant philosopher, a thinker and an essayist of the first half of the twentieth century, the Spaniard José Ortega y Gasset is one of the...

SENECA

Lucius Annaeus Seneca, the Younger (Corduba – present Cordoba–, 4 BC – Rome, year 65) was a major figure of culture and politics in the...

HYPATIA OF ALEXANDRIA

The 60-year life of Hypatia, an astronomer, philosopher and mathematic, native of the then Greek city of Alexandria (nowadays Egypt) show us to...

HELEN KELLER

On the centenary of her birth, which took place back in 1880, the American State of Pennsylvania declared June, the 27th the Helen Keller’s...

EDUARDO GALEANO

“One survives in the others: in their memory and in their actions” would says Galeano, always lucid, in an interview with BCC World....

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