Your emotional education plays a huge role in the person you become in life. Properly managing your emotions makes you more intelligent. But first, someone has to teach you how. One of the best new tools out there for that is the…
Literature has always been used as a way to express the author’s emotions. From the scathing critiques in the Rome of Plautus and Terence and Shakespeare’s tragedies to Cervante’s windmills and Goethe‘s desperation, we have extracted some of the most iconic and…
Books can be an excellent tool when it comes to dealing with depression. They help us understand our worst enemy a little better. They can give us more information about the reason for our persistent suffering and help us apply…
Now more than ever, books are accessible and even cheap. There are different formats (hardcover, paperback, mass market, digital) that have made it much easier for just about anyone to read. Books are accessible, they’re diverse… But how much time…
Today we’re going to show you a list of books for raising children who believe in themselves. Why is that important? There’s a quote by Karl A. Menninger that sums it up perfectly, “what’s done to children, they will do it…
Psychoanalysis is a fascinating field: its theories and hypotheses are just captivating. Although that’s true, some books on psychoanalysis, especially by certain authors, might be a bit complicated at the beginning for anyone who isn’t familiar with the territory. Most of…
“Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you”. This quote, from the book The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón, speaks of how personal reading is. We all have such diverse tastes in books.…
This article aims to be a small tribute to Rubén Darío Ávalos, a Paraguayan boy who died at the age of 12 in Seville of a strange condition called histiocytosis. This little angel wrote stories and read the writings of…
We are what we eat, there’s no doubt, but we are also each book we read. People are made up of everything they have gone through in life and also everything in each story they read, their characters, their battles,…
Meditating doesn’t mean distancing yourself from the world; actually it means the exact opposite. It means getting closer to the world: understanding it, loving it and transforming it. The books on meditation we’ll list below can teach you how to do…
Do you feel uncomfortable or insecure when relating to other people? Do you feel out of place when you’re at social gatherings? Here we’ve assembled a list of 6 excellent books about social skills for you to learn from. But remember:…
The ability to say a lot with very few words is a thing of geniuses. Geniuses such as Pablo Neruda. One of his most famous quotes says, “Love is so short and oblivion is so long…” Since not everyone is as bright as he was, some of us…
Carl Jung’s books go beyond a simple analysis of human behavior. He was a pioneer of deep psychology and a prolific author. His work contains a wonderful alchemy of psychoanalysis, spirituality, religion, philosophy, and the dream world. Few personalities stir…