Kintsugi (金継ぎ, “golden joint”) or kintsukuroi (金繕い, “golden repair”) belongs to Japanese tradition. As the name suggests, it involves repairing broken objects, most often earthenware such as dishes, bowls or vases, with gold joints. This process is by no means intended to go unnoticed; on the contrary, the repair is highly visible, making the object unique, as if it…
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Don’t forget the good in people It is easy to get angry. When someone is mean to us, it becomes almost natural to be equally mean to them. However, the path of revenge is rarely the best one, because it will only make the bitterness that you have failed to transform grow in the hearts of others. You will then…
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The Christian injunction to love one’s neighbor has spread like wildfire as a result of globalization, itself undertaken by Western countries (which have a Christian tradition). Are we really in a world of love as advocated by the Gospels? It seems that loving others has been summed up in shaping them in our image. It is more difficult to feel…
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How to find pleasure in the absence of pleasure? You will tell me it is impossible. I would be partly right if I had not become aware of the hidden resources of the human mind. When we think of pleasure, we limit it to its purely material and sensory dimension. This is quite logical. We only see what we can…
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The most common reaction when we see that someone has faults is to blame them. Nothing more natural. But beyond that, isn’t there a better way? What if we could make good use of the shortcomings we detect in others? The others are only the distorted mirror of what we are There is a universality of human behavior. Very often,…
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An important daily skill Knowing how to recognize someone’s “vibrational level” is essential when you want to give someone your full trust and when a wrong choice would have negative consequences on your life. We all have a soul but we don’t all take care of it. We sometimes choose to break away from our spiritual identity in pursuit of…
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It is not surprising to note that consumer society has the immense advantage of providing immediate doses of happiness. This ease of access to happiness makes any other approach less attractive. However, the dissatisfaction that results from an endless race towards acquisition to maintain one’s level of happiness creates the need to find an alternative approach. Anything that is easily…
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We all aspire to happiness, yet we take different paths to achieve it and sometimes we come to a dead end without being able to even touch that treasure we cherish. If we assume that happiness is a consequence of a life spent cultivating virtue, it would be equally necessary to reflect on vice in order to avoid it. Of…
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How can we resist evil? The one that knocks at our door every day through hundreds of manifestations as repeated as they are insignificant. Evil has many faces. It can disguise itself in different ways to seduce us. It tempts us, solicits us and finally it gets into us if we are not careful. But what is evil? Is it…
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We are all born once, but how many of us manage to be born a second time? What does it mean to be born a second time? It is simply finding the path to awakening, that is, seeing the light again, this time in a metaphysical way. The first birth When we are born, we have not asked anything of…
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