Spirituality is subject to the same destiny as a coin: having been introduced into common use and remaining there for a long time, it has lost its original effigy, favoring so the use of substitutive tokens which counterfeiters don’t have any difficulty in multiplying. (André Dodin, Grande Dizionario delle Religioni)...
“One of the greatest reasons why so few people understand themselves is that most writers are always teaching men what they should be, and hardly ever trouble their heads with telling them what they really are” wrote Bernard Mandeville in his infamous “Fable of the Bees”. The author of this...
Per più di un mese il cuore dell’Ucraina ha battuto in un posto preciso: Maidan (dall’ucraino – piazza); tanto che ormai questa parola indica un fenomeno piuttosto che un posto geografico.2 Per analizzarlo fino al fondo ci vorranno studi specialistici. Intanto vorrei presentare alcuni immagini immediate di quelli giorni che...
Assuming an organization adapted to their application, it will be found that efficiency principles, although all interrelated, all necessary to each other for highest result, nevertheless stand in a logical sequence. The first principle is a clearly defined ideal. Harrington Emerson (1912) What is needed is a complete restatement of...
…Christianity, which lies at the roots of European civilisation, represents one of the most important opportunities for Europe. Driven by their faith, Christians have a calling to awaken the conscience of the European people, anaesthetized by the fear of loss or of not receiving enough, by the upsurge in individualism...
“Le grandi religioni incarnano le verità non disponibili per l’economia o politica, e rimangono salienti anche quando tutto il resto si cambierà. Ci ricordano che la civilizzazione sopravvive non a causa della forza ma della sua capacità di rispondere ai deboli, non a causa della ricchezza ma della cura dei...
