WYA Austria meets Viktor Frankl
As part of the regular meetings of WYA Austria, a small group of the Chapter went to see the Viktor Frankl Museum in Vienna. Not bigger than a small family apartment, the museum is situated within an historical building – indeed, it was the psychotherapist’s own apartment until his death in 1997! A hidden place […]
EAF 2016: “Learning how to see again”
Following Pieper’s thought, this year’s European Art Forum challenges us to re-think the topic of perception and representation with the theme: “Art and Culture: Learning how to see again”. When Josef Pieper wrote his short essay, first published in 1952 and entitled “Learning how to see again”, he was not interested in considering the mechanisms […]
A wealth of human potential
[tabs] [tab title=”English”] When weighing topics, I reflected much on my passion. Although freedom, equality, culture, tolerance and solidarity were core values, empowering youth and marginalized figure on my bottom-line. Dalai Lama in his writing about our global family has highly inspired me and could then understand how important it is, if we each make […]
Life in Two Lenses
“The study of living organisms.” This is what defines Biology. I have devoted myself into specializing in this field the moment I got accepted into the 5-year course at the Ateneo de Manila University. I was ready to immerse myself in books and offer myself to service – a sacrifice that is rendered the moment […]
World Down Syndrome Day
Three days ago, the 21st of March, we celebrated the 11th anniversary of the World Down Syndrome Day. We heard about it through social media, newspapers, we maybe saw some people walking with two different socks but what is the real meaning of all of this? What is Down syndrome and why do we reserved […]
My struggle with the truth and freedom
Before settling on this topic I must say I had to scribble and cancel a dozen more just to figure out what best to write about. Freedom is a word that many have come across and always talk about but majority of people don’t know it’s real meaning. For one I never really understood what […]
‘Altruistic surrogacy’ a big business
Situation in the Council of Europe On the 15th of March the Committee on Social Affairs of the Council of Europe will vote on a report that intends to promote altruistic surrogacy as a way to limit human rights breaches associated with surrogacy practices in the European Continent. In the past few years, surrogacy scandals […]
