Mandala de la Convivencia en Paz para principiantes Jump to the pattern. Nihil Novum Sub Sole: From Meleager of Gadara to the Globalization Crisis It is ironic that now, more than ever, we need to celebrate the International Day of Living Together in Peace. Nihil novum sub sole (nothing new under the sun). History remains the same... just when we thought we would advance as a species. Meleager of Gadara, a Stoic from twenty-one centuries ago—a century before Christ—already s

The Paradox of Empathy: An Evolutionary Journey Life is a rose full of thorns. The universe is an immense spiderweb, a fabric like our own, where something or someone has created an extremely complex yet fragile balance that survives and endures, readjusting itself through its own rules—Nature. Life develops in connection, never in isolation, and each of us is a crucial point in the universal weave; we find our justification precisely in the act of being connected to others.

The Inner Gaze Toward the Stars Crochet and reflection heal me; perhaps they heal you too. Years ago, a mandala expert—an artist who had specialized her entire body of work in them—gave me a piece made with wax crayons. It featured a circular motif showing a pupil gazing from within the body toward the stars in outer space. She gave it to me, she said, so that I would never forget that everything we have inside is also outside, and that everything is connected. That painting