Italian version Some parents find themselves having to cope with the death of a child. My friend Paolo has decided to share the letter he wrote in response to a friend some time after the death of his son Riccardo, who died at the age of 52 in 2022 from pancreatic cancer. Here is the text. Dear Barbara,I received your letter ten days ago, but I’ve only just decided to reply. Your letter meant a lot to me: you were…
My friend Paolo has wtitten a new poem. In this period, words inspired by love are a benefit for our soul. You can read the Italian version, I will not translate it to preserve the original atmosphere.
Italian version I was born with an aptitude for mathematics, offset by poor skills and a consequent lack of interest in music. I listen to music fairly randomly, I struggle to recognize different musical genres, but I like songs that touch my spiritual side or remind me of happy moments.In the Art and spirituality category, there are currently only two articles dedicated to music, which struck me for the depth of their message. They are The song “Il mondo si…
Italian version In January 2025, I launched the website https://www.esperienzedivalore.it/en “Thoughts for a better world.”It was born from the desire to publish content that would stimulate positive thoughts and the search for common ground, in a historical period where we are constantly reached by stimuli that lead us to division, if not outright conflict. What is the outcome as we blow out the first candle?My first thought is that I have maintained my determination to produce articles in line with…
Italian version War and peace. The dilemma of human history on earth. With the conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East, our days and our thoughts are filled with images and words of war, which enter our homes daily through the media. Even our future is permeated with war, as world leaders compete to paint a threatening picture of what lies ahead. Shortly after the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi uttered…
Italian version The last two centuries have been characterized by the introduction of extremely complex technologies that have radically transformed society, the environment, and the economy and, ultimately, the quality and development of our individual lives. In the last 50 years, we have seen a further technological leap forward due to the development of information technology, telecommunications, and robotics. At the pinnacle of this development is a set of technologies that we usually refer to as “Artificial Intelligence” (hereinafter AI)….
Italian version A search for the word Rogers on this site returns four articles out of a total of 33 written in about ten months. The numbers also show my admiration for Carl Rogers, born in 1902 and died in 1987, one of the fathers of humanistic psychology. I first heard about him during a meeting on counseling in Rapallo, about ten years ago, and I was fascinated. Through the concept of “person-centered therapy,” he introduced a new way of…
Italian version I started playing volleyball at the age of sixteen, in 1985. I immediately loved this sport, which is very comprehensive and in which Italy has excelled almost continuously since 1989. It was in that year that the Italian men’s national team unexpectedly won the European championship, kicking off a series of successes that led to that team being named “the generation of phenomena.” The coach was Julio Velasco. The same Julio Velasco who, after a career studded with…
Italian version Lately, I have often found myself reflecting on the similarities between fields of knowledge that we tend to consider distant from one another. This article aims to explore the similarities between the concept of impulse response in systems theory, the ABC system in cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy, and the principle of cause and effect in Soka Gakkai Buddhism. The figure immediately shows the essence of the analogy. The concept of impulse response is a key principle of systems theory, with…
Italian version Albert Einstein can be considered the most important scientist of the twentieth century. His genius gave birth to revolutionary ideas in the understanding of the nature of light, culminating in the 1921 Nobel Prize for his studies on the photoelectric effect, and with the two formulations of the theory of general and special relativity. Although his studies and scientific discoveries are accessible to only a small audience, there is evidence of Einstein’s worldview that elevates him to a…