Management of oneself and one’s life

Life is what it is.

Events are never determinable, although they can be relatively manageable, according to the circumstances, potentials and resources of the people involved in them.

Not even your psyche is under your full control. Educate and discipline yourself, but it is essential that you respect, nevertheless, the evolutionary limits that you [...]

The Sacred and the pathetic

Hope is a moral duty – lucid faith constitutes its possible corollary, with the inner work of reflection, of spiritual search and devotional practices, in a systematic and tireless commitment over long periods of time…

Ordinarily, no one obtains an elementary school diploma without dedicating successive years of daily study [...]

Axis of absurdities and horrors

God Is. No definition is proper for Him-Her – any conceptualization would restrict the Absolute to the limited human gnoseological spectrum.

Nothing can be outside of the Being. Nothingness is a mere abstraction of the human mind. Even the space-time continuum, as well as the matter-energy binomial, to exist or “sprout” from “nothing”, require [...]

Women vs. weapons 

Written statement submitted by Instituto Salto Quantico (Sociedade Filantrópica Maria de Nazaré, an organization with special consultative status with the UN Economic and Social Council) for the 67th session of the Commission on the Status of Women¹.

It is well known that [...]

Genuine Christian peace

Those who love care, but also educate. And those who educate are not always gentle in the way they act.

Therefore, do not trouble yourself when faced with the moral need to be stern for the sake of those within your scope of personal responsibility, [...]