Italian version In a letter sent to an Italian newspaper about one month before he died, Pope Francis made yet another appeal for peace, in which he stressed the importance of the careful use of words. I quote part of the letter : I would like to encourage you and all those who devote work and intelligence to inform, through communication tools that now unite our world in real time: feel the full importance of words. They are never just…
Italian version It is very difficult to rank the scientists who have left their mark on the past century. Thanks to the ingenious discoveries of these people, human life on earth has radically changed, with revolutionary advances in various scientific disciplines. Undoubtedly Albert Einstein is one of the most important scientists of the twentieth century, his genius produced revolutionary ideas in understanding the nature of light, culminating in his 1921 Nobel Prize (for his studies of the photoelectrical effect) and…
Italian version I am not a music fan, normally I listen randomly to what the radio offers me. Since my dad died in January 2024, every morning I listen to Cat Stevens’ “Father and son,” then I rely on the random algorithm of choosing the next songs, which fits well with my musical “ignorance.” Thus I was fortunate enough to come across two songs that struck me with the depth of their meaning, so much so that I decided to…
Italian version Among Comments of readers of “Experience of value”, which recounts the spiritual experience I had after my father’s death, I was struck by Agostino’s:“A mature religiosity and an awareness of having done everything possible with love transforms death into a peaceful act of life.“I dwell on the word religiosity, which is not a synonym for religion. A famous Italian dictionary has the following definition:religiosity: The fact of being religious, religious attitude and feeling, not necessarily related to a…
Italian version As anticipated in Different bodies same mind, I dedicate today’s article to http://www.heartmath.org, found a decade ago in one of my web explorations. I was intrigued by a statement related to my studies in signal theory: certain characteristics of the electrical signal associated with the heartbeat are closely related to the state of our psychophysical well-being, with particular effect on reducing the state of stress. In the introduction available at this link we read “For more than 34…
Italian version Unity is strength is a very famous proverb. It is easy to find experiences in sports that demonstrate the substantial validity of this proverb. It sometimes happens that the performance of a team is surprisingly greater than one would expect by “adding up” the value of the individual components. Think of the feats of Denmark and Greece at the 1992 and 2004 European soccer championships, the victory of Claudio Ranieri’s Leicester in the 2016 Premier League, the victory…
Italian version Alberto Maggi is an Italian theologian, biblical scholar and religious of the Order of the Servants of Mary. He is the Director of the “G. Vannucci” Center for Biblical Studies and curates the dissemination of scholarly research in the biblical field through writings, radio and television broadcasts and conferences in Italy and abroad. After reading my article The wisdom of multiplication, my dear friend Marco told me:“Have you read Alberto Maggi’s writings? Your interpretation on the miracle of…
Italian version The verb compete originates from the Latin cum petere: Thus the etymology of the verb compete, which we also find in Italian competere and French competitionner, conveys to us an idea of cooperation, joint effort to achieve a goal together. In my opinion, competition should be a collaboration aimed at the creation of value (in this regard, I encourage reading the article The definition of value).Competition is an integral part of our personal and social lives. We talk…
Italian version The stories of ancient religious and philosophical traditions are characterized by narrative forms capable of speaking directly to the hearts and minds of the people of their time. The images of everyday life in the parables of the Gospel, the cosmic and fantastic visions of the Lotus Sutra, the fabulous myths of ancient Greece, the verses of the Koran, and the texts of Eastern religions, such as the Lotus Sutra in Buddhism or the Bhagavad Gita in Hinduism,…
Italian version A few weeks ago a friend told me about helicopter parents.“What does it mean?” I asked her curiously.The comparison with the helicopter has a twofold meaning. On the one hand, the tendency to constantly monitor and control the child’s life, like a spotterhelicopter; on the other hand, interventions designed to remove the child from situations of difficulty or distress, just as happens in a helicopter rescue in which the person is picked up and removed from danger. This…