Reflections

 Regarding hate, cruelty, and the neuroplasticity of the brain
 Regarding the paradox about poor countries that sell strategic resources
 Regarding that women have fewer teeth

Regarding hate, cruelty, and the neuroplasticity of the brain

Day after day, we must train the brain with positive thoughts and stop thinking about ourselves that is what makes us miserable. Happiness is never just one thing. It implies stimulating other abilities: freedom, courage, inner strength, love, compassion, unconditional kindness. If one feeds his mind with hate thoughts, he will turn into a cruel person. If he does the opposite, he will see that the neuroplasticity of the brain has changed in a month.

Matthieu Ricard

Regarding the paradox about poor countries that sell strategic resources

Isn’t it a paradox that, in a globalized world such as the one we live in today, and where commodities (petroleum, coal, gas, steel and agricultural products) are the base of the economic growth, the countries that sell them tend to be poor and buyers, instead, rich? Shouldn’t it be the other way around that is rich the one who sells the most and even more if he sells critical resources?

Manuel Ruiz Rico

Regarding that women have fewer teeth

Aristóteles sostenía que las mujeres tienen menos dientes que los hombres. Con sólo pedirle a una que abriera la boca habría corregido su error, si bien al precio incómodo de contradecir su teoría sobre la inferioridad de las mujeres, tan evidente para él como la de los esclavos. Aristotle claimed that women have fewer teeth than men. If he could have just asked one woman to open her mouth, he could have corrected his mistake; even though at the price of contradicting his theory about the inferiority of women, as self-evident for him as that of slaves.

Antonio Muñoz Molina