1– On Cranston’s stoicism. I watched Breaking Bad late, like 10 years after it was launched. Of course, I fell in love with the show, as much as most of those who had seen it before I did. …

Three Ideas on the Importance of Discomfort. «Why did you make us leave Egypt and bring us here to this terrible place?» Numbers 20:5 1 — Comfort zone. The Children of Israel had just been granted their freedom. They had been enslaved during four centuries, and now, all of a…

1. Reality is not nice. Reality is much more than what we understand. There are a Rationality and an Intelligence behind what we can directly perceive, this is what we call «transcendence» or «transcendent reality». «Transcendence» derives from «trans» and «scando», which means «beyond what I climb», it is, what…

1 — In statu viae. One of the most interesting ideas in the Catechism is that human beings are perfectible but not perfect, that is to say, human beings are «in statu viae», in state of becoming. That is compatible with our perception of time: we know or suspect that…

1 — Competence delusion. Learning is the most fundamental way of thriving. One goes from A to B by acquiring skills, concepts, mental structures, and so on. …

Some years ago, Homer found that selling fat could be an interesting way of making money — interesting, not profitable. …

1 — Our share of the load. Some years ago I was talking to a friend of mine, Leonardo, who was back then a member of the Faculty of Law at Los Andes University in Bogota. …

1- Faith and belief. Faith is one of the most difficult concepts to grasp. If someone asks me whether I have faith, or, if anybody says that has it, I would not know what exactly they mean. Believing something might be to have an opinion with regard to a fact…

Today, I would like to develop three ideas: first, what being a disciple or a follower means; second, what can we understand as the daily cross; and, third, what is self-denial in a spiritual sense. 1- What being a disciple means. ‹‹Disciple›› and ‹‹discipline›› share the same Latin root: ‹‹discipulus››…